Science and the Outdoors

RuralMT14
Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:08:35 +0000

The reason I posted this was because many of the schools I was looking to apply to were either in big cities or in the middle of the midwest; i.e. U of Chicago, Columbia, and Grinnell. I thought I would enjoy the adventures of the big city, but after a trip to the Chicago area and down through the rest of Illinois, I found out how much I missed the outdoorsy feel of Montana. I’ve considered going in-state but the academic quality just doesn’t cut it.

Primarily I wanted to get an idea of other top schools that have an outdoors feel paired with superior academics.

I’ve looked into UC San Diego and UC Boulder (Colorado) but kind of wanted to stay with the smaller schools. Colorado College has the outdoors atmosphere, but is not that well know. Dartmouth is another outdoors oriented student body, but I don’t know specific qualities that would separate it from all the other liberal arts colleges that “focus on teaching and encouraging undergraduate research.”

Feel free to add your suggestions.

P.S. This same topic is in the College Search and Selection Forum under “Mountains and Intellect”