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".
“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.
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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.
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.
And my nephew, the other lawyer in the family, graduated from Hampden-Sydney college, and went on to Ole Miss Law School.
I did Freshman and half of Sophmore year at #39, St. John’s College. It’s a good program and I regret I didn’t have the maturity to get the most out of it.
I’m pretty sure the three military academies are on all kinds of lists, and liberal arts schools for $50k? No thanks. No liberal art degree is worth that much.
My niece went to Curtis, my god-son to RISD and my brother-in-law went to Kings Point. Me, I went somewhere else.
I stopped reading here:
Haverford College: Notable alumni include Dave Barry, humorist ...
Not exactly a selling point. And not exactly a typical Haverford grad. He probably does make more money than a lot of them, though.
For nonsmart phone viewing can’t wait to look at this.
. . . and Judge Crater.
Williamstown where Williams college is has to be one of the most beautiful areas of the country. I bicycled through southern Vermont and the northwest corner of Massachusetts in the fall one year & just loved the place. Beautiful campus.
This list is beyond ridiculous.
Interesting list.
My wife went to RISD.