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Anonymous wrote:St. Mary's College of Maryland is actually quite woodsy where it is not surrounded by water.
Also maybe Ithaca and Juniata

+1 on SMCM

Has had issues even filling its class so not worth wasting time there.

Oh, look, dummy is back. Hello, dummy. Entertain us, please.

Reed

Nice mix of wood set and urban close by.

Anonymous wrote:Mount Holyoke. My daughter said upon arriving that it felt exactly like her summer camp in the woods

I visited the campus and felt the same way. I didn't apply but I kept their brochure for many years because it was so pretty.

Anonymous wrote:Sewanee? (University of the South)

Yes! A whole mountaintop to yourself and plenty of dogs!
Woodsy campuses: Lehigh, Drew University

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My DD ended up choosing Santa Cruz. It was a pretty hard choice between that and Boulder. We couldn’t find anyone who had a bad experience at Boulder and even though the UCs have their issues with budgets and class sizes it still won her over (I think because it is close to the Ocean). She did end up applying to skidmore and UVM as well. I deemed Humboldt too hard to get back to the east coast from.

Yay! I was going to say if she loves it her search is over. Didn't realize this was an old thread. Congrats! Your DD will LOVE California living!

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My DD ended up choosing Santa Cruz. It was a pretty hard choice between that and Boulder. We couldn’t find anyone who had a bad experience at Boulder and even though the UCs have their issues with budgets and class sizes it still won her over (I think because it is close to the Ocean). She did end up applying to skidmore and UVM as well. I deemed Humboldt too hard to get back to the east coast from.

Congratulations to your DD and thanks for coming back with the update! I've never seen the campus but it sounds amazing. Hope she has a wonderful experience there.

Anonymous wrote:UWisconsin Madison

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree to this one. UW Maddison sits between two beautiful lakes and has lots of out door opportunities but is far from "woodsy". Half of the campus is easily described as urban. After our visit dd cut this from her list based on it being too urban and not having enough nature around.

Conn College has its own arboretum, but is more preppy than hippy.

From Juniata you can walk to a dramatic overlook that is surrounded by woods and a river below. Kids can also spend a semester at the nearby field station (a cabin in the woods on a lake). Bowdoin has a similar option but it is very hard to get into that place.

OP here. My DD ended up choosing Santa Cruz. It was a pretty hard choice between that and Boulder. We couldn’t find anyone who had a bad experience at Boulder and even though the UCs have their issues with budgets and class sizes it still won her over (I think because it is close to the Ocean). She did end up applying to skidmore and UVM as well. I deemed Humboldt too hard to get back to the east coast from.

Michigan state

A lot of the folks commenting here clearly have never visited UCSC. Its campus--on a bluff overlooking the Pacific--really feels like a beautiful forest into which a few academic and residential buildings have been tucked as unobtrusively as possible. It's a different species from the "pretty campus with some trees" places dominating this thread (many of which are fabulous--just different). The closest analog I can think of is Lewis & Clark in Portland, OR (which has a notably different--more "trust-afarian"--social vibe than UCSC).

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone! The most selective schools (Dartmouth, Amherst, etc) are probably not in the cards. Schools like Boulder and some of the others are great suggestions. I don’t know much about Sewanee except, don’t the students dress up for class? Maybe that’s not a thing anymore. My DD trends more toward hippie so I hadn’t even considered it but I will take a second look. As for St Mary’s, it is a beautiful campus. I will take her there to look (although I fear it may be declared too close to home

In theory they still do "dress" for class. In reality, I think it's more for special occasions. We were down there last month for an accepted students thing and the only guys in ties were some of the accepted students. It was a rainy day and most of the girls were in tights/jeans and boots. Guys were mostly in khakis and flannel or other shirts. It definitely wasn't a sweats and pull your hair back and go sort of place, but not over the top.

+1 great university!

The hippie vibe is alive and well at St. Mary's. Very environmentally conscious, vegan co-op, free clothing "store"... Also ranked the #1 small-sized school for Peace Corps volunteers.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone! The most selective schools (Dartmouth, Amherst, etc) are probably not in the cards. Schools like Boulder and some of the others are great suggestions. I don’t know much about Sewanee except, don’t the students dress up for class? Maybe that’s not a thing anymore. My DD trends more toward hippie so I hadn’t even considered it but I will take a second look. As for St Mary’s, it is a beautiful campus. I will take her there to look (although I fear it may be declared too close to home

In theory they still do "dress" for class. In reality, I think it's more for special occasions. We were down there last month for an accepted students thing and the only guys in ties were some of the accepted students. It was a rainy day and most of the girls were in tights/jeans and boots. Guys were mostly in khakis and flannel or other shirts. It definitely wasn't a sweats and pull your hair back and go sort of place, but not over the top.

+1 great university!

Anonymous wrote:Thanks everyone! The most selective schools (Dartmouth, Amherst, etc) are probably not in the cards. Schools like Boulder and some of the others are great suggestions. I don’t know much about Sewanee except, don’t the students dress up for class? Maybe that’s not a thing anymore. My DD trends more toward hippie so I hadn’t even considered it but I will take a second look. As for St Mary’s, it is a beautiful campus. I will take her there to look (although I fear it may be declared too close to home

In theory they still do "dress" for class. In reality, I think it's more for special occasions. We were down there last month for an accepted students thing and the only guys in ties were some of the accepted students. It was a rainy day and most of the girls were in tights/jeans and boots. Guys were mostly in khakis and flannel or other shirts. It definitely wasn't a sweats and pull your hair back and go sort of place, but not over the top.

Indiana has actual woods in the middle of the campus:
http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Dunn%27s_Woods