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| Northwestern University |
Considered “most selective” by US News, Northwestern admitted only 15% of its applicants in 2013 but students here know how to work hard as well as play hard, whether participating in Greek life or cheering on NU’s Big Ten football team. Located just outside Chicago in Evanston, Northwestern has 9,500 undergraduates and is home to the world-renowned Medill School of Journalism, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the Bienen School of Music.
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| Reed College |
Fiske calls Reed “One of the most intellectual colleges in the country”. For the last 50 years, all freshmen start the Reed curriculum with Humanities 110, “a yearlong interdisciplinary course focused on society and culture in archaic and classical Greece and imperial Rome” which sets the tone for the rest of core curriculum. Reed has an undergraduate enrollment of 1,400 students and is located in Portland, Oregon.
Located in Lawrence, Kansas, a quintessential college town, University of Kansas offers its 20,000 undergrads strong pre-professional programs, extensive undergraduate research opportunities, an excellent honors program, Big 12 Conference sports, and a lively social scene. Noted programs include Architecture, Business, Engineering, and Premed.
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| Washington University in St. Louis |
Rated “most selective” by US
News, Washington University accepted 17.9% of their applicants in 2012. A medium-sized university located in
St. Louis, Wash U has strong pre-professional programs within 5 schools
including Arts& Sciences, Architecture, Art, Business, and
Engineering. With a beautiful
campus, a relaxed, Midwestern feel, opportunities to conduct undergraduate
research, and a great social scene, Washington University in St. Louis has a lot to offer and has seen applications skyrocket in recent years.
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| Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts |
Syracuse’s College of Visual and Performing Arts is the largest professional college on campus and houses the departments of Art, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Design, Drama, Transmedia (computer art, film and video, and photography), and the Setnor School of Music which also houses the popular Bandier Program, a selective program that prepares students for the music industry. The VPA offers 33 undergraduate programs and grants several degrees including a BA, BS, BFA, BID (Bachelor of Industrial Design) and BM.
Also known as “Happy Valley”, Penn State is located in the small city of University Park, PA and enrolls 38,000 undergraduates. It is one of the nation’s top tier public universities with 260 undergraduate programs and strongest programs in the sciences and engineering. Its meteorology program is quite notable. One out of four US meteorologists is an alumnus.
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| University of Florida |
Located in Gainesville, University of Florida is a large public university with 35,000 undergraduates. Strong in pre-professional programs such as engineering, business, and pharmacy, University of Florida is also home to the College of Journalism and Communications with was the first journalism program in the country to offer students an electronic newsroom. Fiske rates University of Florida as a “Best Buy” for 2013, one of only 20 public universities to make the list which requires a combination of top academics and a lower sticker price. Tuition for 2013 is $28,540 for out-of-state.
Questions?
Please contact Elise Aries in the College and Career Center 818-889-1262 ext. 375 or email: ahsccc@lvusd.org
