<p>Im looking for a small liberal arts college with solid music and business programs and a golf team is a must-have. (I am a male, so please dont suggest wellesley or anything)</p>
<p>the stats:
gpa weighted: 4.1 of 5.3
unweighted: 3.1
ACT: 33
my high school is huge (4000+ kids), it is well respected and i took tough courses</p>
<p>considering:
Bates
Colby
DePauw
Middlebury
Hamilton
Holy Cross</p>
<p>Im open to anything, not too big (preferably less than 10000 and closer to 4000), and not too focused on music (i.e. Oberlin), it does not have to be a liberal arts college, but generally smaller colleges are. I realize many smaller schools do not have business schools, so a good economics or some sort of administration major would be a good substitute. So please give me some suggestions, comments on prospective colleges, and descriptions, I really appreciate it!</p>
<p>Golf Digest has a ist of colleges rated for both golf and academics. Check out colleges in SCIAC division in Southern California. Univ. of Redlands has one of the top Div III golf teams in the country, and has a good music school, too. Occidental, Chapman (which has business and a School of Music), Whittier all have golf. CMC and Pomona would be reaches for you - but both offer great golf, music, and econ.</p>
<p>In Northern California University of the Pacific has Div I golf, business, and a respected school of music. Check out Santa Clara, too.</p>
<p>How competitive a golfer are you? And what kind of music program are you after? Performance, or general music study?</p>
<p>If you’re planning to play golf competitively as well as perform in musical ensembles, your time management is going to be very tricky! You’ll miss many entire days of school to play golf tournaments, let alone practicing many afternoons a week, plus usually all day Fridays or so. Somewhere in there you’ll also need to fit in classes.</p>
<p>Im decent at golf so I could play at most d3 schools and it would probably help me get in. I could also play in some of the less competitive d1 teams (easily could play at holy cross).</p>
<p>The general music studies aspect is more important than performance. I would only play in the jazz ensamble.</p>
<p>Thank you all very much!! I have begun to look at Rochester and occidental and both are becoming serious colleges to consider. Dayton is also a possibility but the golf team is pretty good and may not be as competitive academically as some of these other schools</p>
<p>Some LACs/mid-sized with and without business (not sure about the golf thing … but that is easy enough for you to check)</p>
<p>With Business
Bucknell
Skidmore
Lehigh
Franklin and Marshall
Dickinson (International)
Gettysburg
Bentley
Bryant
Babson
Brandeis
Clark
Marist
Quinnipiac</p>
<p>No Business
Bowdoin
Dartmouth
Colgate
Middlebury
Connecticut College
Trinity
Bates
Wheaton
Amherst
Tufts
Union
Hamilton (not sure about this one … doing it from memory)
Vassar
Wesleyan
Muhlenberg (not sure about this one either)</p>
<p>For jazz and golf - University of the Redlands - although the golf team is extremely competitive. And University of the Pacific has serious jazz - and golf scholarships. But, when you say decent - are you nationally ranked?</p>
<p>I like the list of colleges on your list, all outstanding LAC’s. DePauw stands out a little since it is out of the geographic area of your other choices and, while it is very strong LAC that I think will only get better with their new President, it is not really at the level of a Middlebury or Hamilton. </p>
<p>One possible school to consider that meets your criteria is Furman University in South Carolina. My D will be a freshman there in 2 weeks. It offers a degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Economics, has an outstanding music department and is highly regarded. It also has its own beautiful 18 hole golf course on campus. I would think Furman would rank below Middlebury, Hamilton, Colby and Bates, might be on par with Holy Cross and is a notch above DePauw. It is worth a trip to their web site. Good luck!</p>
<p>Check out Illinois Wesleyan University. They have a good Business Program, a School of Music (in which non-music majors get to participate in the Jazz Ensemble, etc. as well as receive non-music major scholarships) and a golf team. I don’t know much about their golf team. Your ACT will get you at least $15,000 scholarship/year. 2100 students. Great internships and study abroad programs. We live in the same town and I have a freshman son who is attending there now. Let me know if I can help with anything else. [Illinois</a> Wesleyan University – Bloomington, IL](<a href=“http://www.iwu.edu%5DIllinois”>http://www.iwu.edu)</p>