I’m about halfway done 
Not exactly grinding out essays at the pace I want with finals season though…
In researching colleges for a relatively uncommon major such as classics, you may benefit from considering the size of the community that would share your interests. IPEDS can be a good source for this. Duke, for example, appears to have graduated zero “first majors” (bachelor’s) in classics in a recent year: College Navigator - Duke University. In contrast, a much smaller school, Davidson, reported three classics majors: College Navigator - Davidson College.
For classics, take a look at Hamilton. It’s the only liberal arts college to have served as the headquarters for the American Journal of Philology (founded 1880), when it was edited by a Hamilton professor (now emerita).
For proximity to the art world and an internship, as well as for a big city experience, you could look into Hamilton’s semester program in New York City:
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For the OP in case Duke works out! D21 is a classics major at Duke: it is a small number of undergraduates (‘25 has 3) who have classics as a primary major, but there are many grad students and faculty. Duke is interdisciplinary: classics has a lot of overlap and collaboration with history, art history, anthropology, even CS, so the small size does not seem to matter to the undergraduate students. Plus it means there are a relatively small number competing for on campus resources such as museum internships, research with classics faculty, and internationally known specialized abroad programs that Duke faculty help select for. Small programs within a top university can be a huge benefit!
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Yes!! I think Duke actually heads the Intercollegiate Classics Study Program in Rome; definitely a school with a lot of great resources.
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In addition to some of the other excellent colleges that have been mentioned, Holy Cross, Kenyon (see its interdisciplinary IPHS program) and Oberlin match this criterion.
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