<p>Im currently looking at a variety of schools and wanted to know what anyone who visits this forum might have to say about these schools.</p>
<p>Colgate
Dickinson
Emory
Furman
HC
Kenyon
Lehigh
ND
Oberlin
Occidental
Pepperdine
Reed
Rhodes
Richmond
Sewanee
Skidmore
Union
Vanderbilt
WF
Whitman
Grinnell
Lafayette
Colby
Bard
Case
Davidson</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>vanderbilt
sewanee
davidson
furman
richmond
wake forest (wf?)</p>
<p>are all great at least partially Southern schools</p>
<p>Colgate - AMAZING LAC. One of the few that mixes serious academics with serious partying. Beautiful campus. Good science facilities. </p>
<p>Occidental - A hidden gem school of sorts. Strong all around, but stands out in political science and international relations. I’m tempted to say that the natural sciences are also really good. Convenient location on the outskirts of LA. </p>
<p>Reed - Hardcore intellectual, quirky, very liberal. Great location in Portland. </p>
<p>Skidmore - Mellow LAC in upstate NY. Great academics all around. Pretty campus. Nice, relaxed overall feel. Lots of artsy kids. </p>
<p>WF - Really strong business program. Perfectly manicured campus. Great party scene. More conservative than some of the others on the list. </p>
<p>Whitman - Well-regarded LAC in a cute little town. Walla Walla is adorable.</p>
<p>Sewanee - Beautiful campus, wonderful professors, first rate education, very strong English department, home to the oldest literary review in the country - The Sewanee Review, 25 Rhodes Scholars, work hard-play hard mentality, campus is remote, but the second largest in terms of size - 10,000 acres on a mountain top</p>
<p>Rhodes - gated campus, kind of in a bad area of Memphis, good education, one on one time with professors, good study abroad programs</p>
<p>Vanderbilt - top notch medical facility, harder admission criteria, in a funky area of Nashville with alot of shops and good restaurants, known to be on the snobby side</p>
<p>Davidson - beautiful campus, friendly people, students love it</p>
<p>Pepperdine - absolutely stunning location, religiouis affiliation with the Church of Christ, very strict rules, good baseball team, they have the midnight yell during finals</p>
<p>Emory - very strong creative writing programs, Coca Cola gives a lot of money to them, draws alot of northern students to the south, good location in Atlanta in Buckhead (would be expensive to live close), great medical school</p>
<p>Richmond - pretty campus, good academics, draws several northern students to the south, Richmond isn’t the safest of towns - campus is kind of tucked away</p>
<p>Wake Forest - semi close to UNC and Duke - great basketball, has a deal where you get a lap top when you start and they they upgrade you in your junior year and leave you with it when you graduate, strong communications programs, very green green grass</p>
<p>world changer and brookebdog thanks for your input.</p>
<p>“very green green grass” LOL</p>
<p>Grinnell- very intellectual, good academics, liberal student body, middle of nowhere location</p>
<p>Lehigh- good engineering program, not very intellectual, loads of partying, preppy, depressing area, beautiful hilly campus</p>
<p>Lafayette- Lehigh’s smaller cousin</p>
<p>Kenyon- great writing and English dept., liberal student body, if you like Kenyon, you’d probably like Grinnell, and vice versa</p>
<p>Oberlin- similar to Kenyon and Grinnell but better-known and a little artsier, to my knowledge</p>