College Visits

College review by Lisa Bleich I didn’t know what to expect from Simmons based on my outdated impressions of the school from when I lived in Boston almost 20 years ago.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 We started the morning walking around Carnegie Mellon and had a better impression in the light of day.  The campus is self-contained, with the city right [...]

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 [...]