Schools on the Water

tk21769
Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:45:48 +0000

St. Mary’s College of Md would indeed be a great choice (for cost, location and quality) unless you’re committed to business/criminology. SMCM is strictly liberal arts and sciences, not pre-professional. If you can convince yourself to major in economics, for example, you could be walking to your boat as easily as most students walk to their cars (and still be paying in-state public school rates.) Now, climate is another issue. You could do more sailing at a school in the south or California, but then you’d be paying more for it, and you wouldn’t necessarily get better academics.

You won’t get better sailing on Long Island Sound, or anywhere in New England, than you get on the Chesapeake Bay. Maybe not anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard for that matter (unless you’re into serious ocean sailing). Lake sailing? Meh. Not unless you’re talking the Great Lakes but then the sailing season is even shorter.