Mt. Holyoke

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 [...]

Smith

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 [...]

Sarah Lawrence College

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 [...]

Northwestern University

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 [...]

DeSales University

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 [...]

Cedar Crest College

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 [...]

Lafayette College

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 [...]

Lehigh University

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 [...]

Rhode Island, University of (URI)

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, [...]

Bryant University

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 [...]