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College review by Lisa Bleich Hampshire is the most non-traditional environment of the five colleges I saw on this tour.  Originally founded in the 1970’s by professors from the other four [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich We started off our tour with an address from the New President, the first female President of the college.  She came from University of Wisconsin.  She described [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich The next day we went to Mt. Holyoke College and the beauty of the campus and the breadth and diversity of the student body amazed me.  The campus is sprawling with a [...]

The Smith campus is beautiful with large open quads, brick buildings and a river right next to the campus. Smith feels less isolated than some of the other schools in the Five-College consortium [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a very pretty campus in Bronxville, NY about 35 minutes north of Manhattan.  The SLC curriculum is modeled after the Oxford and [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Northwestern University was the second school I visited on my Chicago trip.  NU is considerably larger than U Chicago with almost 8,500 undergraduates enrolled [...]

College review by Beth Cassie DeSales University is a Catholic university in the Lehigh Valley with a focus on hands-on learning.  DeSales is relatively “new”, founded in 1964.  The campus is a [...]

College review by Beth Cassie Cedar Crest College is a small women’s college in the Lehigh Valley.  The campus is an arboretum, and the day I visited, everything was in full bloom. My tour [...]

College review by Beth Cassie I visited Lafayette College in Easton, PA on an unseasonably warm April day, and students were taking full advantage of the weather.  The campus is beautiful with [...]

College review by Beth Cassie “Do you have your hiking shoes on?” At every turn when I mentioned I was going to visit Lehigh this warning was issued.  True to its reputation, Lehigh is a vertical [...]