Best school for skiing out of these EC ones? help please

SirFryanator

SirFryanator

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A) Colby/Bates

C) Boston University/Boston College

E) Skidmore, Hamilton, or Bard

I grouped them by area. I'm touring all these right now, already visited the Boston schools, and I'm headed to Maine right now. Just toured UNH today.

I could go to UVM or UNH but I already know that the best EC skiing is around there...so I'm not inluding those.
 
Boston is a sick place to go to school. But extremely shitty place to be if you like skiing a lot. I just finished 4 years of school here and it was PAINFUL having rain everytime there should be snow. I'm from VT so I could just drive home on the weekends when I wanted to shred but it sucked not being a 15 minute drive from a mountain on a powder day.
 
yeah. I want to go to UVM or UNH if I go to an EC school but I can get into way better schools and my family is going to make me apply/go to the best one that fits me.

I'm taking a year off for competitions and training and just shredding but if the comps get bigger and I want to stay on top of my game I want to get better each season and ski more than 10 or 20 days...and I know virtually nothing about EC mountains and how far they are from schools. I know NS knows that. So help me, plz!
 
deffinately dont go to skidmore... i would suggest something in vt or nh... castleton or st mikes are both solid choices, as are both states universites...yea and boston is a great city, but not if skiing is a passion for you
 
colby for sure. its close to sugarloaf, sunday river, and saddleback, is probably the best academically, and is a fun school too. the boston schools are ok too, but too far from any real skiing
 
the guy said he wants to be at a legit academic school...nothing against st mikes and castleton...but they definately do not rank up to the other schools he listed in terms of academics
 
like ski_DC said Colby, it is a really good school. You have Sugarloaf and Sunday River about the same distance away, and Saddleback is making some steps in the right direction and it is a fun and cheap place to go to. Deffintly check out Colby
 
amherst doesnt rank up there with uvm, unh, colby, etc academically. i would look at middlebury like someone else said, thats a pretty good school.
 
"Pretty good school" heh. No offense but its one of the best schools in the country. Not even CLOSE to the same league as UVM, UNH, or Colby.
 
haha fuck you man! i'll be a senior at skidmore this year and love it here. really good school and we have a solid newschool skiing crew. we carpool to killington/mt snow/stratton/okemo every weekend plus the ski club runs cheap trips up to MRG, jay, stowe, etc. not to mention saratoga is a baller town. i'll be back up there tomorrow, so if you're visiting soon i'd be happy to show you around and give you the skinny on everything the tour doesn't tell you
 
^don't listen to him, skidmore blows.. full of rich preps from jersey... i have lived in toga almost my whole life and yes its a baller town, and i just wish all the little trust ffund babies would leave it the hell alone.. plus it is much further from good skiing than the other ones he listed... i would stay out of new york, the people arent very nice
 
colby is definitely in the same league as middlebury. middlebury may be more competetive, but they are in the same tier of schools. colby shouldnt be grouped with unh or uvm any more than middlebury should.
 
As far as academically, Colby and Bates and Middlebury would definitely be your best bet. If you want a legit big city college experience, go BU/BC.

Middlebury is like an hour or so south of Burlington (UVM) so you'd be pretty close to Stowe, MRG, Bolton Valley, Sugarbush...and you'd be about 2 hours from Jay Peak, which is about as close as you would get to "West Coast" skiing
 
ahh i know the feeling. I had a really tough time finding a strong academic school that was also near the shred hill. IF your real shmart and rich look at middlebury, dartmouth, or williams they are all within like 45 minutes of the slopes and are straight ballin in the learning department, Personally though, i would suggest UVM. Its a little expensive as an out of stater but is pretty underrated academically and we have a brand new freestyle $ki team. Plus we smoke copious amounts of marijuana.
 
sorry man, but i think you're a little off the mark and you're definitely stereotyping us way too hard. first of all, the preppy trust fund crowd is going to be abundant at any of the schools he mentioned, many of which are far worse than skidmore in that area (i.e. colby, hamilton). in fact, skidmore has the reputation as one of the biggest hippie schools in the northeast. but none of that matters. some of the chillest people i've met at skidmore are some of the richest people there and you would never know it. money doesn't make you a good or bad person, and i have really close friends on both ends of the spectrum. so to sir fryanator, don't write skidmore (or any other school for that matter) off because of outside opinions like this. all that matters is how comfortable you feel at the school.
 
better shools brothaaa

im looking at Lewis and Clark near Hood but it's kind of...hippyish. No schools other than that are up to my standards in Oregon other than Reed which I can't get into. UW is way huge but if I got into the Honors proram I'd consider it, and WWU (no offense kyle) isn't that great compared to Colby or Bates or pretty much any of the schools I listed.

I'm probably taking a gap year or so to ski the PNW pow and summer parks and compete way more. Believe me, I'd MUCH rather be out near a super good mountain, but a great education will be better for me in the long run.
 
that's good info, I was looking at rankings and UVM wasn't high at all (no pun intended), but yeah, I'm not that rich my parents have just been saving a ton of cash for college for me since I was born. So I'm set to go to whatever college, but I don't think I can get into dartmouth or middlebury
 
go to UVM why these other shit schools are in your considerations I don't know. But maybe also look into west coast????
 
I'd rather go to UVM than the other EC schools, or Middlebury. Unfortunately I don't think I have the GPA nor the SATs to be a strong contender for Middlebury, I might apply but it'd be way tough for me to get even on the waitlist. UVM isn't as academically strong as I'd like, but from what I hear (not just on NS) the academics are really underrated, so I'm going to check that out too.

I'm applying to Lewis and Clark, UW, and UBC on the west coast. But I'd like the best combo of an EC education and awesome outdoors also...

if you go to these schools I listed in the original post look for me, I'll be wearing brown ipaths and I'm a pretty short guy...I'll probably look younger than you think a kid looking at colleges looks. I'm touring Colby/Bates tomorrow, U Vermont/Skidmore on Tuesday, and Hamilton/Colgate on Wednesday.

hit me up if you'll be there...maybe you can show me around. I hate being shown the school by peppy biased kids who keep away the bad things that you want to be aware of.
 
My advice, if you dont like living there, then college wont be a good experience for you. Youd be surprised what hating your life can do to your grades lol (Not from personal experience, but second hand, take it for what its worth)~

Youll have a much better idea after you tour through the school and get a grasp on what direction you want to go with your major, there will be some schools youll show up at and in 15 minutes youll be like welp this place blows see ya later!~
 
He seems to be looking for:

a.) quality education

b.) not too hippyish

Champlain is not exactly that realm.
 
my brother went to bates and loved it... sunday rivers got a decent park and is close by... also you get a free pass to lost valley if you go there which has a bunch of decent jib setups.... Liam Downey went to bates
 
i would have to disagree with you on that. they are very similar academically. esp uvm umass and unh- colby is private so its just different. going to umass amherst was the best decision i have ever made in my entire life. I skied 50 days a season and partied at least 3 times a week. it was the best life. i really dont kno how shit could have gotten better.
 
you only partied 3 times a week? sheeeit i guess i'm a lush

anyway, umass is a pretty legit school, especially if you get accepted into the honors program there, also, they received the ivy award for best food out of all the colleges and universities in the country.
 
^ ha dude i lived there for two years. its sucks now. i mean people start party but nothing like it used to be. this past year the hoedown was a lame gathering of 60 people in the rain playin polish horseshoes.
 
def uvm its like 20 mins from stowe and bolton valley 45 mins from jay and prolly like a half hour from smuggs sugarbush and mad river
 
alright so basically...Middleburry in vermont sucks. its a good school, but there is nothing in the town at all. UVM and champlain are really nice and right next to eachother and not far from skiing. St.Michales is a good school academic wise, but its a private school so its like 38,000 a year. I dont really know about new hampshire school. how was UNH? close to skiing?
 
surprised plymouth state university hasnt been mentioned. its not the best school academically ( as you can tell by reading my posts ) but it is a utopia for riding. Loon, Waterville Valley, Cannon, Cranmore, and Bretton Woods, are all within 45 minutes, most of them being much closer than that. and you can buy the 4 mtn pass for nh college students for 280 balla deal
 
i went to school down the street from bc...and i live outside boston...and i ski every weekend. loon is like 2-2 1/2 hours....and if you go to bc and wanna go up every weekend im more then happy to split hotel room costs and stuff! but BC is am amazing school!!!! UNH is good too...one of my friends goes there but didn't ski a lot because its not really close to the mountains.....and freshman cant have cars on campus so he had no way of getting there...but this year he can have a car so he is going to be skiing more!!! i know you are looking at some really nice schools....st mikes is awesome! and as a student you get either a free pass...or a really cheap like $15 dollar pass to smuggs i think....or one of the mountains up there. cant beat that. if you want a school near a variety of mountains but not the greatest school...but has good parties.....plymouth state in nh....has waterville valley right down the street....loon like 20 min away....tenny when they are open.....and other great mountains not too far away!
 
i dont get it dude, you say you want a really high ranked school for acedemics but you cant get into all the good ones (you said you wouldnt be able to get into dartmouth or middleberry) but then you said the west doesnt have good enough schools for you. take a look at colorado school of mines, U of U, cu boulder. I looked into u of u and boulder and both are deffanatly good schools.
 
im looking to go into UVM Pre med in 2010. my dads a doctor and he has a few friends that are very respectable doctors that went there for premed. so im set, four years in premed in UVM then somewhere else dope for medschool

skiing + what i love + making mad cash after = best life
 
middlebury and dartmouth are a bit just above my reach. I mean, I MIGHT be able to make it in but it's a stretch. colby and bates are way above any colorado school except for maybe colorado college and UC Boulder and I can get into them both. Look at the rankings. Look at avg. SATs and GPAs...way better campuses on both schools. So far Bates is my top pick out of all of them.

None of the schools you listed are within the range of academics I want. I'm thinking top 50 schools, liberal arts, under 5000 people, really awesome vibe that fits me. So far Bates is the only one that does that. Colby is a close second. Lovin it out here at Maine!

Right now I'm in St. Johnston, VT, going to U Vermont and Skidmore tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
 
the northeast has the best colleges in the country..bates and colby are both known for their really good academics so if you want a small liberal arts school then i dont see why you wouldnt want to go there or any other NESCAC school..if u dont get in come to providence college because its a sick school and i go there
 
fuck those schools. look at colorado college, university of denver, lewis and clark, reed, cu boulder. better schools than half of your list and way better skiing (either co or mt. hood). get off the ice coast.
 
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