Posted on 12/13/2012 1:39:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Swarthmore, Smith and Williams may be somewhat rigorous academically, but they are standard-issue, far-leftist campuses. Hillsdale, they ain’t.
Add to the list South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City, SD. This is a top engineering school closely affiliated with a new Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL), the deepest underground lab in the world located 5,000 feet below ground in a former gold mine. The lab will be doing experiments to detect "dark matter".
Where did he go?
Claremont (#17) was Conservative when I went there. Now the horrible President Gann has made it just another lousy Liberal cesspool.
It used to be particularly different and interesting. Now, it’s just a Me-Too school.
“Deep Springs is founded on the pillars of academics, self-governance, and labor, and prepares students for lives of service to humanity.”
IF that is the best college in the US we are all doomed. They picked a whole lot of private colleges with very costly prices.
I would take a good state four year college over MOST of these so called good colleges.
My father twice gave the commencement address at Western and once warned students to avoid the “cult of mediocrity”. But I was a very lazy student as an undergrad and wasted vast amounts of time. I would have benefited from something like the College of the Ozarks.
‘twas nice to see the College of the Ozarks on the top 50 list.
pfl
It’s a nice list. In my family, which is fairly well-educated, few have heard of any of these schools, and none of them were on my radar when I was applying for college. We know about UC if you have excellent grades, Cal State if you’re mediocre, community college if you barely graduated high school and Stanford if you were valedictorian, school president, and captain of the football team.
But you have to WORK for that $50,000 tuition they provide to you. At the ranch wherein sits this remote college.
I know this because my wife and I discovered this remote tiny college on a road trip over the eastern Sierra into Nevada. Out in the middle of the high-desert nowhere -- I repeat, nowhere! -- we stumbled upon a little paved road that veered off the main one into what looked like a ranch. But the sign said "Deep Springs College." So we took the road less traveled and checked it out. I stopped at the center of the ranch and this teenage kid came by and I questioned him. That's how I learned all this. I thought it was an interesting concept, but I had no idea that it was known across the nation.
Just one negative for the young male wishing to attend: There are NO GIRLS here. The nearest city is Bishop, California, and that's probably an hour and a half drive away over the windy roads of the White Mountains.
This is a very lonely place, but I suppose that may make it conducive to study. Interesting choice for Number One.
I'll bet you know of Deep Springs College. Odd choice for Number One, though.
Lafayette at 27 is listed as a liberal arts college but also has a very strong and rigorous engineering program. It isquite unique for a school with only 2000 students to offer liberal arts and engineering and also participate in athletics at the Division I level.
Nice to see Harvey Mudd still up there. With their recent push for more women and minority applicants, we’ve been concerned they were going to fall into the trap of lowering their rigorous academic standards.
The Occidental-Pomona rivalry, which dates back to the nineteenth century, is the oldest football rivalry in the Southland.
Is that the Montessori college?
The trustees of Deep Springs voted last year to take it coed. That decision, I think, is now in court with the trustees on the losing end of the vote and some alumni suing to block it. They say school’s founding documents require it to be single sex and the trustees have no legal power to change that.
I don't believe it's affiliated with anything.
What a shame. There seems to be no regard anymore for a founder's wishes. I guess you could call this a microcosm of America today.
And my nephew, the other lawyer in the family, graduated from Hampden-Sydney college, and went on to Ole Miss Law School.
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