Small Colleges in the Midwest

Parents Forum
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<p>IF you want engineering take a look at Rose Hulman in Indiana…a wonderful small engineering school ranked at the top</p>

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<p>Also Cornell College in Iowa. It’s one course at a time, so students and faculty are fully engaged for 3-1/2 weeks, then 4 days totally off studying each month.</p>

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<p>Bradley is one of the top rated “regional universities” in the Midwest. They have a very good engineering school and are fairly well priced for a private school.</p>

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<p>Creighton University in Omaha is excellent and gives solid merit aid</p>

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<p>lol, Cardinal Fang</p>

<p>World Blondness Championship</p>

<p>I once saw the St. Olaf choir perform at the Kennedy Center. The sound was amazing, but yes, I was almost blinded by the blondness.</p>

<p>(It is a good liberal arts college.)</p>

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<p>St. Olaf is a great school that is “up and coming”. Its reputation is rising every year.</p>

<p>Other one to consider:
Oberlin
Kenyon
Grinnell
Beloit
Knox
Earlham
Wooster
Cornell College
Lawrence
Ripon
Lake Forest
Illinois Wesleyan
Wabash (if male)
Kalamazoo
Hope
Wheaton (IL)
Luther
Gustavus Adolphus
Monmoth</p>

<p>… among others</p>

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<p>Then I guess that would be “the blond leading the blind.”</p>

<p>Unlike our MN governor who is “the bland leading the blond.”</p>

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<p>Good one, bclintonk.</p>

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<p>Lake Forest outside of Chicago might be worth a visit. Lots of merit money, lots of interesting internship opportunities, very pretty campus. My impression is that the school is significantly better than its old reputation.</p>

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<p>We could narrow this down if we had some idea of interests/stats. If you do make it to Iowa, I would stop at Coe College. Small, but in a decent size town for Iowa. Coe had the friendliest people we ran into on our visits and it was difficult to say no to a generous financial aid package.</p>

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<p>You’ve received a very long list of suggestions here. If you provide more information about your criteria, we can probably narrow the list somewhat.</p>

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<p>Hanover College, Hanover Indiana</p>

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<p>The University of Dayton is a gem!</p>

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<p>WISCONSIN: Ripon (fabulous, fabulous small liberal arts school)
MINNESOTA: St. John’s University/College of St. Benedict
IOWA: Drake, Wartburg
MICHIGAN: Kalamazoo
INDIANA: Earlham (Wonderful school!)</p>

<p>Avoid Grinnell like the plague. After a visit there, My DD (who takes herself very seriously) said, “Mom, they take themselves WAY to seriously!” LOL! Plus, our tour guide told us how he fell asleep regularly in the library at 2AM after study all night. Not cool.</p>

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<p>A large percentage of the population in Minnesota is of Scandinavian descent (Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc.) What is the big deal about so many blondes? What did you expect?</p>

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<p>It’s probably too late by the time I post this, but I visited about 10 schools…</p>

<p>and then did “revisits” and overnights at my top 3…</p>

<p>which basically left me at Monmouth ($4500) and Augustana ($13000)</p>

<p>Unfortunately I am going to have to make my decision based off cash, but Augustana is a GREAT school.</p>

<p>You should really visit if you get the chance. Also, Illinois Wesleyan is pretty nice (Augies counterpart) but for me it was too close to home.</p>

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