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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 lake campus and a very active outdoors program. Google is your friend.

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 allsize schools.

I'll get flanked, but BYU has great access to the outdoors, good school, no greak program.

Davidson, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Amherst, Virginia Tech, UC Boulder all have robust outdoor programs specifically kayaking, or did when DC was looking.

UC Santa Cruz

Anonymous wrote: 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.

My kids are two of the small liberal arts schools people have mentioned here. I just want to point out that the liberal arts approach encourages students to explore, unlike some schools were students basically need to have their final path in mind when they apply. If he wants to explore several different fields, he doesn't need necessarily need to have graduate-level classes offered in all of them (as at a large university), because he's only going to be there for four years. Liberal arts colleges are focused on educating undergraduates and opening their eyes to the different fields they might want to pursue. Then with the personal connections with their professors, they can dig deeper in their subject areas as they get closer to graduation.

A little gem: https://www.paulsmiths.edu/

Anonymous wrote:Middlebury. I was there at Bread Loaf Writers Conference a few years ago and the surrounding fields and mountains are gorgeous. Lots of hiking. They had fires going in fireplaces in the some of the buildings in the early morning. An amazing place.

I went to Middlebury...a few years ago. I'm not a kayaker but I believe there is good kayaking nearby. VT climbing is not great. There is better climbing in the Adirondacks and NH.

University of Denver and other Colorado Schools
University of Vermont
Lewis & Clark
University of New Hampshire
University of Maine
Marist
University of Puget Sound
Hobart and William

Middlebury. I was there at Bread Loaf Writers Conference a few years ago and the surrounding fields and mountains are gorgeous. Lots of hiking. They had fires going in fireplaces in the some of the buildings in the early morning. An amazing place.

Bennington. You can build stilts and walk through fields and weave some grasses etc etc.

Bowdoin, Colby, Middlebury. Very easy.

Whitman, Reed, Colorado College, Carleton, St. Olaf, Colgate, St. Lawrence, Williams, Middlebury, Bates

Lewis and Clark college in Portland, OR

Anonymous wrote:Williams

+1. Our tour guide emphasized this a great deal. Good luck getting in though, it’s a tough admit!

University of Washington, UC Santa Cruz, CU Boulder, University of Oregon, Oregon State, University of Denver, San Diego State, UC San Diego, UC Davis