New England

College review by Lisa Bleich I didn’t know what to expect from Simmons based on my outdated impressions of the school from when I lived in Boston almost 20 years ago. However, the wide range of [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Wesleyan is located in Middletown, CT, aptly name as it is two hours in either direction Boston or New York.  Wesleyan has an open campus, which is somewhat [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Bowdoin College is a highly select school located in Brunswick, ME, about 15 minutes from Freeport, ME and 25 minutes north of Portland, ME.  I was very impressed [...]

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 The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a pretty campus built on a hill. There is a small college town with standard college fare such as Dunkin Donuts, pizza shop, [...]

College review by Lisa Bleich Bryant, located in Smithfield, RI, has a very pretty campus and is organized in a circle.  It looks like a very large corporate park with large quads and ponds [...]

North Miami CampusCollege review by Diane Forman I had the opportunity to visit Johnson and Wales while spending a few days in Miami with my husband.  The North Miami Campus is one of four [...]