Small, unknown, but good, colleges? How do you find them!?!?
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There are tons of superb small liberal arts colleges.  Here are just a few:\n\nVassar\nReed\nHaverford\nFranklin and Marshall \nBard\nWilliams\nAmherst\nMacalester\nColby\nOberlin\nBates\nSwarthmore\nBowdoin\nDavidson\nSkidmore\nKenyon\nTrinity \nBucknell\nConnecticut College\nDickinson\n\nTo find some lists, check out the website below.   The "college finder" tab will also bring you to a search engine in which you can plug in some personal preferences (available majors, sports programs, distance from your home, etc.), and generate a list of schools that might be right for you.\n\nBest wishes!
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Many institutions have scholarship options, some are very obscure.
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Check www.petersons.com\n\nYou can search virtually every college in the world by all kinds of criteria, especially by majors available. I find it very useful. \n\nCheck out more than one, don't limit yourself to one college.
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Study hard, make good grades.  Volunteering in your community is a HUGE advantage.  Colleges are looking for outstanding people, not just good students.
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There is no such thing as "the best college." There may be many places which will work for you, but there is no one ideal college for you to attend. So don't try to look for it, you will not find it.
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Maryland and Virginia are excellent state universties.  Others include anything in the Big Ten or any UC schools.  There are lots of excellent private universities other than those in the Ivy League (Chicago, Duke, Stanford, Rice, etc).  US News & World Reports ranks colleges.\n\nI've provided a link to Princeton Review.  They have a tool that asks you questions about what you want in a school as well as about your background.  It then suggests several schools that might be of interest to you.  I think you ought to start there.
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Search on colleges in Maryland . . .
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Just go to their website. You could also try joining College Board if you haven't already. It's free and their college search database can be pretty helpful.
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GOOGLE! In the same shoes you are... talk about HOURS of research... best bet is collegeboard.com, go to for students, then click college finder, then select your criteria (independant learning, wired, distance/correspondance, stuff along those lines) then click show me results. there will probably be some 400 schools that offer distance learning.... its actually been a great help to me :-)\n\nPS> don't forget to type in what kind of classes you want the school to offer, narrows down the search a bit.
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Good in what?  Fashion merchandising or pre-med?  A college is only as "good" as the programs it offers that appeal to you.  Do your research, and don't attend a college just because everyone's heard of it.  Some of the best schools in (and out) of the country are ones that no one has heard of except for alumni, and they are the ones that love that particular school.
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UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, USC, U of Davis.... so many good colleges.
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try ft worth sports and recreation department.  OR if you're in Arlington, you might want to try UTA, cutier college c0-eds.  good luck.
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i have no idea. but i know that there's probably more than a thosand colleges.
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your local community college.....
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Ohio State, Bowling Green, Oberlin, Cincinatti Conservatory, Cleveland Institute, any number of the smaller colleges like Wittenberg, Capitol, etc.\n\nThere really are trade-offs between big schools and small ones. Make sure you go somewhere where you can really participate and learn what you need to know to succeed!