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Where-am-I
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I a senior in High School currently looking for colleges. Specifically i'm looking for a small liberal arts college with a established ski culture and preferably some hockey and mountain biking too. I'm thinking of majoring somewhere in history or art or engineering (pretty wide range eh). any suggestions?

btw i searchbared but got bored after reading a couple of threads
Sep 3 2009 8:34PM
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b-kul
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i dont think you'll be majoring in engineering if you want to go to a small libral arts school. what region are you looking in?
Sep 3 2009 8:43PM
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InkShrink
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Any particular region you want to attend college?
Sep 3 2009 8:43PM
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b-kul
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dont steal my questions!
Sep 3 2009 8:45PM
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Where-am-I
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any where there is skiing and hockey. i'd even be ok with a midwest school if there were some local hills with parks nearby. the best e would be to be able to stay in Colorado though
Sep 3 2009 9:02PM
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ummmmm53
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Well I don't know how your grades are but check out the NESCAC conference of colleges (Williams, Amherst, Middlebury and others). They are all pretty much what you're talking about
Sep 3 2009 9:07PM
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purps
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im in the same boat and thinking in colorado, potentially somewhere in denver. also, riverside, ca is like an hour and a half from bear and maybe 45 minutes to la and the beaches
Sep 3 2009 9:09PM
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BOSSignol
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Depends on how dope you are at hockey.
Sep 3 2009 9:14PM
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^nate^
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I'm a junior at St. Olaf college in Northfield MN (40 min south of minneapolis) majoring in physics and math and doing a 4-2 program with U of M or UW-Madison for engineering. School offers a great art program. Local hill is Welch Village with $99 college season pass with a legit park, also Hyland Hills is also close with a great park. as for mountain biking not sure what the scene is but i'm sure there are trails around. The other school in the town is Carleton, which is much more liberal and hippyish if ur looking into that. Northfield is a great small town with a big music scene and good bars for the most part and Minneapolis is 40 minutes away.
check the website: http://www.stolaf.edu/
also we just got a bombass new science building
Sep 3 2009 9:19PM
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Scott22~
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small liberal arts college? Why even bother, you should just start your dumpster diving early before all of the good cardboard is gone~
Sep 3 2009 9:19PM
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InkShrink
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If you can't find a college with good skiing, mountain biking, and hockey and a killer engineer program would you not go? Sometimes you gotta lose some to win some, in the long run your education will pay off.

Sep 3 2009 9:28PM
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Where-am-I
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to clarify... my parents want me to be an engineer (so basically that will probably never happen) although i am good at math and love build things--i did do a job shadow for an architect and it looked liked it sucked, i love art and history, i'm pretty good at art and really good at history. i have a 3.5 gpa currently (hopefully that will get boosted) and plan on getting around a 30 on my act ( got a 27 last spring but it was a shitty day and i got a 30 on my plan) so far i've been looking at CC, Middleberry, Lawrence University Carleton College, and Lewis and Clark. i want to go to a liberal arts colleg for the small classes and just get a feel for what kind of career i want to pursue, i just need skiing hockey and mountain biking nearby or other wise i'll go crazy. thanks for the ideas so far
Sep 3 2009 11:24PM
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Where-am-I
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currently playing AA and going to play Varsity for a tier 3 team this spring, but i just plan on playing club in college
Sep 3 2009 11:26PM
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ashamedkrew
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he speaks the truth northfield is where its at. especially for hippies.
Sep 3 2009 11:26PM
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DeuceMcGoose
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Bryant College
Sep 3 2009 11:29PM
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dergblerp
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I would advise against this. I spent my first 2 years of college taking Gen. Eds and skiing tons without much of a life plan. Now I have a major, but not really a life plan, but that's basically the point of being young and in college. It's the ideal time to fuck around a bit and figure things out without wasting time.

I don't know what your grades are like, but I hear Colorado College is a really unique and cool liberal arts school. They have a totally different system than basically any other school in the US, so it would be worth reading into, because it sounds like what you're looking for.
Sep 3 2009 11:36PM
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AT-AT
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okay do what i did.

go the the university of buffalo (aka suny buffalo)

its mad cheap and badass, and im majoring in civil engineering

request to live in goodyear... its sweet

parties whenever you want and the classes arent tha bad either

Sep 3 2009 11:48PM
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Icelantic_Skis
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University of Denver has everything that you want. I went there for UnderGrad and currently go there for Graduate school.. basically it is an awesome school. I loved it.
Sep 3 2009 11:50PM
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ski_DC
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colby college man. near good skiing, awesome school. check it out
Sep 3 2009 11:51PM
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TheBeardedOne
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duluth minnesota. lake effect snow. sick rails all over town, smaller school. lots of lib arts. im in an engineering major and it's really not a bad program. yeahhhh dude first night back at school for the scond yrear ima'l fucked. c comahere ":)
Sep 4 2009 1:14AM
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Concept_101
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If you are looking small (albeit far away) from you... then I attended Sir Wilfred Grenfell College (SWGC) in Newfoundland, Canada for two years. It's a small (1200 students or so) liberal arts school. There are hockey teams here - the rink is a 20 second walk from school.

The mountain is also not far, a 10 minute drive and you'll be skiing at marble mountain.

www.swgc.ca

www.skimarble.com
Sep 4 2009 1:20AM
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ThaLorax
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yup.
Sep 4 2009 2:07AM
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BootySpunk.
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Try to figure out the major you want to do and than choose a school by near things you love to do. Because if you arn't having fun at school than that's gonna a long 4 years. And I guarantee you there is a good school with the major you want near things you love to do.
Sep 4 2009 2:13AM
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1080bio
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what this kid said, union is the way to go. Really good school that fits your criteria very well. Its a small liberal arts school with a decent engineering program. Only problem with the engineering program is theres no civil program anymore. As far as skiing there a bunch of kids who go here that ski, I believe a few other ns members. The janky films kids all went here but they all graduated. Only downside is the $50,000 tuition. Oh and yeah we got 13th best party school.
Sep 4 2009 2:21AM
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ThaLorax
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if you want to ski gtfo of the east coast and go to colorado. university of denver perfectly fits ur description my man.
Sep 4 2009 2:39AM
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PacificRimJob
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I think everyone agrees with me on Denver...

Sep 4 2009 4:10AM
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thecounty
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word that or regis university in denver.. shits legit. make it happen.
Sep 4 2009 4:19AM
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eheath
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I don't, Boulder man!!! BEST SKI SCHOOL EVER
Sep 4 2009 4:27AM
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Mr_Papageorgio
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thats what i was gonna say as well actually
Sep 4 2009 10:47AM
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Crack.
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how far is boulder from denver?
Sep 4 2009 10:51AM
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ARSpickert
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Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. At least check into it. We have a huge population of hardcore skiers/hikers/bikers/backpackers. Skiing is about 45 minutes (I'm from Colorado so I also happen to know that CC is about 3 hours from any decent skiing despite being in Colorado). The closest area isn't great on it's own but it gives you access to some awesome backcountry.
Sep 4 2009 10:56AM
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Alex_G
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dont knock the place knows how to party like crazy wish i could go there in the fall and the U in the winter
Sep 4 2009 11:25AM
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Alex_G
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cant believe nobody has said this but westminster in salt lake
Sep 4 2009 11:58AM
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r0dubs
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REED COLLEGE IN PORTLAND OREGON

THEY DON'T GRADE YOU, JUST ASSES HOW ELL YOU DO
FUCKIN AWESOME
Sep 4 2009 12:09PM
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Beefcake
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I dunno about any liberal arts shit, bu
Sep 4 2009 12:25PM
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Pinguu
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http://www.nmu.edu/

Go to my school.  Great art program, midwest I know... But the skiing and biking is amazing and people are awesome up here on Lake Superior.   CHECK IT OUT!
Sep 4 2009 12:32PM
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KjellEllefson
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St. Olaf is legit!!
Sep 4 2009 1:59PM
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Dilla
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westminster in Salt Lake. dopest out there
Sep 4 2009 2:01PM
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GORlLLA
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Westminster College, UT. Mountain Biking in the summer, park city skiing in the winter. Bam Sucka
Sep 4 2009 2:04PM
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ThaLorax
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30-40 minutes
Sep 4 2009 2:28PM
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jedi.Jim
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too bad it has a 40,000 enrollment
Sep 4 2009 2:29PM
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prontocuts.com
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Yeah Id go with a no on the MN for skiing and biking. Yeah its a great place to bike if you have never lived in colorado or the west, but once you go west, no way youd go back to minnesota, just, no
Sep 4 2009 2:36PM
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KjellEllefson
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try 25,000 undergrad, 30,000 total
Sep 4 2009 2:40PM
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jedi.Jim
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my bad, but that's still not exactly "small."
Sep 4 2009 2:45PM
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prontocuts.com
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Utah state is DIRT cheap and has a great engineering program. But if your hearts not in engr, you will fail.
Sep 4 2009 2:54PM
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Wolff
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yeah university of denver! or colorado college in colorado springs, good small liberal arts school
Sep 4 2009 3:15PM
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ThaLorax
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ha, for the longest time they sported the highest dropout rate in the country.
Sep 4 2009 5:01PM
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Alkyy
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repping my school, plattsburgh state in ny, has basically the best hockey team in the confrence and is close to fairly good sking and mtb(nothing like co but for the Ec its good) and has both art and history programs, you can get into the 5 year plan thats a history/ teaching masters degree.  Having a masters after 5 years would be sick.
Sep 4 2009 5:14PM
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prontocuts.com
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You can also get a engineering masters in 5 years at alot of schools. Having a masters after 5 years would be sick, but you(as in anyone) would prolly never survive
Sep 4 2009 5:21PM
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pretzel
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williams college.....obviously
Sep 4 2009 5:25PM
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