School suggestions: Smaller (<8,000), not in a big city, southern?

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Anonymous wrote:Sewanee

Came here to post this. My niece is a freshman there and was looking for most of the same things. It is REALLY small and very Southern but if that's what you want it might be a good fit.

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Some schools that come to mind are University of Mary Washington, Christopher Newport, Rhodes, Eckerd, and Furman.

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Anonymous wrote:Mercer in Macon, GA

Wow! I'm an alum. Surprised to see someone else has heard of this small school, which really positively changed the trajectory of my life.

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Just like being at Willingham

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Anonymous wrote:Is Miami of OH too cold?

Would Wake Forest be too competitive?

If you couldn’t get into W&M you couldn’t get into Wake. Unless you are full pay private school student.

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Anonymous wrote:Others have mentioned the schools I wanted to suggest:

Rhodes (has environmental science) in Memphis, but a suburban campus, so doesn’t feel like a city

Rollins (has environmental studies but not environmental science) in FL. A friend’s daughter goes there and raves about it, and it does look gorgeous.

What?? I grew up literally 2 blocks from Rhodes and it is in the middle (midtown area) of the city of Memphis . Nice campus and Rhodes is a great school but Memphis is a city of 650,000 and Knoxville has 186,000 so if OP’s kid thought Knoxville was too big city then Memphis is way too big.

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Elon
Rollins
Furman

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Hendrix
Maryville college in TN
Elon if he could get in
Webster university in Missouri
Centre college in Kentucky
Union university in Jackson, tn

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Anonymous wrote:Is Miami of OH too cold?

Would Wake Forest be too competitive?

If you couldn’t get into W&M you couldn’t get into Wake. Unless you are full pay private school student.

that’s probably true for virginia residents but not necessarily everyone else

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University of Saint Francis, Manchester, Goshen, Wabash.....All in Indiana. Two hours west of UD.

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As suggested by a few others, UNC Asheville has an environmental studies department. Location is beautiful and Asheville is a great town.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Tampa - people love this school

If Knoxville is too big, can't imagine him liking Tampa- and UTampa is right downtown...very urban campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you mean Southern in culture, or not just not somewhere with cold whether?

Some good schools with warm weather that are not culturally Southern:

Santa Clara University
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
Pepperdine
University of Miami

Make sure your kid does not relegate themselves to the Cotton Belt just because they want warm weather.

so smug, yet so incapable of reading the subject line...

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Roanoke?

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Anonymous wrote:Is Miami of OH too cold?

Would Wake Forest be too competitive?

Wake Forest too competitive