Lawrence University
Visited April 9, 2013. This was one of the campus visits on the Cows tour. Appleton, Wisconsin is a pretty town, and the campus is beautiful! Mary Beth Petrie is the new head of admissions. Their slogan is “The Power of Individualized Thinking.” Admissions: Lawrence takes 12 Posse students a year. 22% of their students […]
Ripon
Visited April 8, 2013. Part of Cows tour. Ripon is a college that is known for its lack of pretension. The new president is very impressive; he went to Bowdoin, Johns Hopkins and NYU. Admissions information: 30% are from Wisconsin. Many students are first generation college students. The admissions head graduated in 2002 from Lehigh. […]
Beloit College
Visited April 7, 2013. This was the first college on the Cows tour. Beloit is right on the Illinois border and is 75 miles from O’Hare. There is a bus going from Chicago to Beloit and Madison 12 times a day. The college is two years older than the state. Food processing is the largest […]
University of Mississippi / Ole Miss
In April 2013 I visited the University of Mississippi, better known as Ole Miss. Ole Miss is the smallest of the SEC universities with only 16,000 undergraduates. For this reason a student can have both the exciting environment of a SEC school, and at the same time, take classes in a small school setting. The […]
Lynn University
Visited Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2013. This year I was one of the lucky college counselors invited to attend Lynn University’s 14th Annual Counselor Program. This group was comprised of twenty amazing college counselors from all over the world including individuals from Turkey, England, Switzerland, and Puerto Rico as well as from all over […]
New England Trip – Part 2 – Dartmouth, Middlebury, Univ. of VT & Champlain
Visited October 2012. I have visited all of the other Ivies in the past, but I had never seen Dartmouth before this trip. It certainly did not disappoint me. Dartmouth is comprised of 4,200 undergraduates and 1,700 graduate students. Their calendar system is called the D Plan. There are four academic terms per year, which […]