Our daughter went to COA and loved it. Excellent programs and facilities. The only degree offered is in 'Human Ecology'. If your daughter's a crunchie, she'll love it.

Bar Harbor is great, but the kids are quite isolated from the real world. Moderate political activism (but centering on man's misuse of the environment more than other political causes). Not big on theater and music.

CIA, on the other hand, is excellent for restaurant/hotel industry training, much less for the academics.

Take a peek at Marlboro College (Massachusetts).