Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
GUEST,fretless (at work) BS: College Questions for Leftist Folk (41) RE: BS: College Questions for Leftist Folk 28 Nov 01


Lawrence in Wisconsin; Oberlin in Ohio; Reed and Lewis & Clark in Oregon, with Lawrence and Oberlin giving more emphasis to the music; Reed a good, traditional left politics school; and Lewis & Clark with strong science programs. These are all (pricey) liberal arts, private colleges, but that seems to be what your daughter is gravitating toward. Other good, selective lib arts places include Guilford in North Carolina and Carleton in Minnesota.

Based on your initial list, I'm guessing that your daughter has pretty good SATs to go along with her 3.0+ grades. She'll need them for most of these places.

From the other replies: Deep Springs is a really interesting school -- only two years, but virtually all of their students transfer to 4-year colleges, including all of the top of the line places. There's no set curriculum; students set their courses by negotiating with the faculty. Only of interest if your daughter is a real self-starter. I'd stay awaay from Goddard. It was a wildly innovative place in the 60s, got somewhat out of hand in the 70s, and into serious financial difficulties in the 80s and 90s. They have had administrative difficulties of late, and have been tending to fire their presidents on about a 2-year cycle. You can forgive a college for doing that once or twice, but when it becomes a regular habit, it is usually a sign of instability (faculty-administration feuding, etc.) and you want to keep your child out of that sort of mess.

What's your home state? If money is an issue, then you may want to look into local/regional options.




Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.