<p>I am in desperate need of a safety school or two that I would be happy at.
I’m applying to</p>
<p>Hampshire
Sarah Lawrence
Smith
Amherst
Vassar
Oberlin
NYU Gallatin
Mount Holyoke
UMass Amherst
Brown</p>
<p>I want to study literature and art history in conjunction with each other and I want the freedom to also study whatever else I deem relevant. I also want the resources (material, peer-ial, and professorial) to practice my own craft of writing and installation art. These schools are seemingly all great for that. (unless any of you know otherwise?) UMass is the safety and is good because it’s in the 5 School Consortium (Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire).</p>
<p>What are some safety schools that fit with this list???</p>
<p>Check out Lawrence University and The College of Wooster. They both have individualized liberal arts study, and they would be safeties for someone with Oberlin-level stats.</p>
<p>anything on the coasts? trying to avoid ohio… its just that oberlin is so excellent that i let it slip in. ideal places are Philly, Boston, Portland, SF, New York, Seattle, some Canadian cities like Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, and also New Orleans. maybe Baltimore? good music coming from there lately, plus Mr. Waters.</p>
<p>it’s * typo ^^
and wisconsin. trying to avoid places like appleton wisconsin. middle-of-nowherey and i’m a coasty type
but thank you, these schools are cool!</p>
<p>hey Wells is great
the book arts thing is amazing
and the cross registration with Cornell and Ithica make it a shoe in for my list. lovvvvve consortiums. multiply them resources! anyone with a cleverly worded email can get into a full class. hooplah! list complete, Wells it is. The photo of the Profs make them all seem really goofy but on paper they seem to be well educated. but goofy lookin! all the better to befriend i suppose. i like how intimate the school sounds.
that BOOK press! super super super cool. i’d sure get to tink’rin’ over there. super dupe.</p>
<p>hey everyone:
don’t be as rash in your decision making as I’m being. This is just a TV show because I’m in France and can’t visit any of these schools, and also I’m some kind of a spaz so I waited til the last minute. (note the date). In real life, you should take time, time, research, and more time, visits, visits, and visits, before deciding where to apply. it your school will carve a beeeeeeg notch in yer lifo. though choosing the wrong one first did get me to Paris for an excellent year off. (note: SUNY Purchase liberal arts = buncho lackadaisical slackers)</p>
<p>i said “list complete” i know but if anyone has anything REEEEAAAALLLLY super, send it this way!</p>
<p>must add that i’m so relieved to have found this website, it’s made eons of difference</p>
<p>also everyone should download Pata Pata by Miriam Makeba, that **** is stucckkk in myy heeaddd. good upbeat song for braindrain college surfching</p>
<p>WAIT
please do send more schools, anybody
Wells is maybe a bit too straight, a bit nerdy in the boring ilk… i want some of the excitement that comes from having a few mean people around, a few straight-banged pretty hipster a*sholes to glare at you in the morning. ouch! mm a masochistic bite to lighten up my day, a pointlessly competitive edge. not a whole teeming hoard like Bard of course! but… you know… a couple. i like New York City, you know? I don’t know what this candle holding ceremony is but I’m potentially ooked. [Wells</a> College: The education of an extraordinary life.](<a href=“http://www.wells.edu/]Wells”>http://www.wells.edu/)
see it? oy yoy yoy.
Wells still high on the list though! Book Arts and close professor relations sounds great.
but…
i guess i just mean to ask the question “does any one know what the scene at Wells is like? Is it similar to Sarah Lawrence, Hampshire, Oberlin, Wesleyan, etc???”</p>
<p>is Ithica a safety with my shoddy 3.3???
i got an A in a summer school lit class at Harvard, but I just paid some money to go there and I think they kind of hand out A’s. do admissions officers know this or will it act as a resume bulker? GAAaaADd selling myself is tiring. The point is it was a great class and i want to go to a damn college where I can study hard and talk to people about my studies who want to talk to me about their studies and we can be nerds together and enjoy discussing class outside of class and we’ll have really good taste in music and movies and make art, and talk about art, and go to museums and galleries and engage in the current dialogues.
In fact anybody got any recs nearer to cities?</p>
<p>Also, if you can go to an OOS public school, UNC-Asheville, the public LAC of the UNC system, comes highly reccommended. It’s full of the artsy types who were too nonconformist for UNC-Chapel Hill. It’s in Asheville, one of the great liberal meccas of the South. And isn’t NC a coastal state? Yes, it is.</p>
Less so than you would imagine. As I’ve written before, there are actually only small differences between the student bodies of the two. The arts UNC is the School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, which is where all the truly quirky people are.</p>
<p>UNCA has a very sizable Christian population because it draws from Appalachia, something less prominent at Chapel Hill. Marijuana is more popular at UNCA than it is at Chapel Hill, and the Greek scene is less popular. Otherwise the two are very similar, and a hefty chunk of UNCA students end up transferring to Chapel Hill.</p>
<p>The town of Asheville itself is fairly hip and alternative (at least by southern standards), and I think this has rubbed off on the reputation of the university.</p>