Davis & Elkins – Elkins, West Virginia

After winding through the Monongahila Forest, up the snowy mountains, we arrived at Davis & Elkins College. It is a small, hilly campus with two beautiful victorian mansions on it, among more modern buildings. One mansion is used for their Hospitality Program and one is an Administration building.
We had scheduled the visit and [...]

Beacon College – Leesburg, Florida

Terese, Blake and I visited Beacon College in the center of historic Leesburg, Florida on 2-2-09. Beacon is the only 4-year college in the U.S. that specializes in students with learning disabilities. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of colleges and universities that have either a self-directed LD program (you’re pretty [...]

Warren Wilson College – Asheville, NC

Submitted by Dan C.
Wendy had been looking forward to visiting Warren Wilson College (WWC)
since we first heard of it at a college fair last year. I described
it at the time as GWCS on steroids, and our trip bears that out.
WWC is a small liberal arts college, with about 850 students. The
school [...]

Hollins Review

Submitted by Carolyn P.
Hollins is an all women’s university in the city of Roanoke, Virginia held in the pristine mountains. The first time my family and I visited Hollins it looked so perfect with the sunset hitting the newly built library. Just from the view I could tell this is the place where I [...]

Mary Washington University

Submitted by Dina T.
A nice campus, about an hour’s drive from Northern Virginia. We visited on 2/3/09. It’s a small, liberal arts school with a strong curriculum in English, Biology, Government and Political Science. There are several dorm choices for freshmen and women. Mostly small classes of under 25 students, which [...]

Georgetown University

Submitted by Dina T
The information session and the tour were both well done. We visited on 2/2/09. Georgetown is one of the oldest universities in the USA. Although it is a Jesuit-run institution, it welcomes people from all religions and has a rabbi, an iman, and minister on staff. They teach a comparative religion class [...]

George Washington University

Saul L (Senior 2009)
George Washington University is a school split between two worlds.
We started at the University’s Mount Vernon campus, slightly northwest of Georgetown in the District. It’s very suburban, but also in a very nice part of town. The dormitories and buildings are reminiscent of a classic college [...]

Vassar College

Submitted by Amra S.
The minute I walked onto the campus of Vassar College, I was overcome with a feeling of awe. The campus was beautiful, it was as if the city of Rome was resurrected and placed on New York soil, but with completely different architecture. The education reaches beyond the standard boundaries and supplies [...]

Radford University

Submitted by Jessie R.
Yesterday my mom and I made the long four and a half hour voyage to Radford University. I had a lot on my mind. I wasn’t sure what to expect because most everything I heard was not positive comments about the school. Most people know Radford University as their back up school. [...]