Outdoorsy liberal arts schools?

[Anonymous]

Beginning to think about a college list for my sophomore son, who loves kayaking and rock climbing but doesn't like traditional sports (either as a participant or spectator) and probably won't be interested in Greek life. He will likely want to major in some sort of quantitative social science. At this point, open to all size schools.

[Anonymous]

Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

[Anonymous]

Bates! They have some kind of semester outdoors thing. Also Middlebury. And look at Colorado....Colorado College and UC Boulder. I know a rock climbing kid who applied to both.

[Anonymous]

Colorado College (if he’s ok with a block schedule)
Whitman
St. Marys of Md for kayaking at least

[Anonymous]

Tufts has a mountain retreat for students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beginning to think about a college list for my sophomore son, who loves kayaking and rock climbing but doesn't like traditional sports (either as a participant or spectator) and probably won't be interested in Greek life. He will likely want to major in some sort of quantitative social science. At this point, open to all size schools.

If he's open to all size schools, then I would not limit the question to liberal arts schools.

While it's hard to predict, what sort of academic stats would you guess he'll end up with?

Random ideas, universities out west: CU Boulder, Montana State Bozeman, U Utah, Oregon State, Gonzaga

LACs out west: Colorado College, Fort Lewis College

Obviously there are more; just throwing these out there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beginning to think about a college list for my sophomore son, who loves kayaking and rock climbing but doesn't like traditional sports (either as a participant or spectator) and probably won't be interested in Greek life. He will likely want to major in some sort of quantitative social science. At this point, open to all size schools.

If he's open to all size schools, then I would not limit the question to liberal arts schools.

While it's hard to predict, what sort of academic stats would you guess he'll end up with?

Random ideas, universities out west: CU Boulder, Montana State Bozeman, U Utah, Oregon State, Gonzaga

LACs out west: Colorado College, Fort Lewis College

Obviously there are more; just throwing these out there.

Thanks. He has all As and A-s now and is taking/will take the most rigorous classes in all subjects except world language. He will take BC calc next year as a junior.

Colorado College is definitely on our radar -- he loves the idea of the block schedule (and having lots of long weekends for kayaking). But because it's a small school, I'm worried it might not have enough options for a student who might not be 100% sure about what he wants to study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

Nothing particularly outdoorsy about Davidson. W&L has the most active outdoors club in the country and a beautiful location in the mountains. I know some kids at University of Denver and they spend a lot of time in the mountains. Colgate, Dartmouth and Cornell tend to attract outdoorsy kids.

[Anonymous]

University of Utah is the best for rock climbing (and skiing). Relatively easy to get into their decent honors college and also to get Utah residency after freshman year. Keep on the radar.

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Evergreen State

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Williams

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

Nothing particularly outdoorsy about Davidson. W&L has the most active outdoors club in the country and a beautiful location in the mountains. I know some kids at University of Denver and they spend a lot of time in the mountains. Colgate, Dartmouth and Cornell tend to attract outdoorsy kids.

Davidson has a great outdoors program. Our friend's son loves the one at Colgate. I'd also add Lafayette, Bowdoin and Bates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Davidson, Middlebury and Colorado College

Nothing particularly outdoorsy about Davidson. W&L has the most active outdoors club in the country and a beautiful location in the mountains. I know some kids at University of Denver and they spend a lot of time in the mountains. Colgate, Dartmouth and Cornell tend to attract outdoorsy kids.

Davidson has a great outdoors program. Our friend's son loves the one at Colgate. I'd also add Lafayette, Bowdoin and Bates.

Davidson is in an outer suburb of Charlotte. There are far better locations for an outdoorsy kid.

[Anonymous]

We have kids at Davidson and Colorado College right now. Both have great outdoors programs for students. NC is actually an incredible outdoors state.

[Anonymous]

Dartmouth.