United States Naval Academy

United States Naval Academy is a accessible academy that was founded in 1845. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 4,511, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 338 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. United States Naval Academy's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 9. Its in-state charge and fees are $0 (2014-15); out-of-state charge and fees are $0 (2014-15).

The United States Naval Academy is amid in Annapolis, Maryland, area the Severn River meets the Chesapeake Bay, about 33 afar east of Washington. It is the additional oldest of the 5 federal account academies. Students, accepted as midshipmen, are admiral in training and their charge is absolutely adjourned by the U.S. Navy in acknowledgment for active-duty account afterwards graduation. The Naval Academy has NCAA Division I intercollegiate varsity sports and competes in the Patriot League and the American Athletic Conference. Navy is accepted for its abiding football animosity with the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Midshipmen have to accommodated assertive concrete apprenticeship requirements during all four years in adjustment to graduate. The academy offers added than 70 extracurricular activities for midshipmen, from the agitation aggregation to the scuba club. All midshipmen reside in Bancroft Hall, a huge billet complex, and accept a account stipend.

Graduates from the United States Naval Academy acquire a Bachelor of Science amount and go on to serve in the U.S. Navy or Marine Corps. Applicants have to both administer anon to the academy and accept a nomination, usually from a affiliate of Congress. A attitude on campus is the Ring Dance, if cheap midshipmen accept their chic rings. Notable alumni cover above U.S. President Jimmy Carter; astronaut Alan Shepard, the aboriginal American in space; U.S. Sen. John McCain; NASA Administrator Charles Bolden; and above presidential applicant Ross Perot.

Davidson College

Davidson Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1837. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,770, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 665 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Davidson College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is Civic Advanced Arts Colleges, 9. Its charge and fees are $46,966 (2015-16).

Davidson Academy is amid in Davidson, Arctic Carolina, 19 afar arctic of Charlotte. With added than 200 apprentice organizations on campus, there are a array of means for acceptance to get involved. In accession to clubs and organizations, acceptance can aswell accompany one of the school's eight civic fraternities, four bistro houses or two sororities on campus. The Davidson Wildcats acreage about 20 NCAA Division I teams, accommodating in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Davidson's men's basketball aggregation has competed in abundant NCAA tournaments. Freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus in the four first-year apprentice abode halls. Added than 95 percent of acceptance accept to reside on campus in abode halls, apartments, address living/learning houses and all-embracing houses.

Davidson offers added than 20 undergraduate majors. In 2007, Davidson became the nation's aboriginal advanced arts academy to alter loans with grants in all banking aid bales with its action alleged The Davidson Trust, giving all acceptance the adventitious to alum chargeless of debt. The academy has abounding traditions, including the Freshmen Cake Chase – started in 1934 – which consists of a 1.7 mile chase for freshmen, with the winners accepting afresh broiled cakes. Notable alumni cover above White House Press Secretary Tony Snow; Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Charles Wright; and abomination biographer Patricia Cornwell. Above President Woodrow Wilson abounding Davidson but did not graduate.

Claremont McKenna College

Claremont McKenna Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1946. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,301, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 69 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Claremont McKenna College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 9. Its charge and fees are $49,045 (2015-16).

Claremont McKenna Academy is amid in Claremont, California, at the bottom of the San Gabriel Mountains, 35 afar east of city Los Angeles. The academy is allotment of the seven-college bunch accepted as The Claremont Colleges, which includes Scripps College, Pomona, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Claremont Alum University and Keck Alum Institute of Applied Life Sciences. Acceptance can yield classes at any of the affiliate institutions as able-bodied as adore the amusing activities, contest and dining casework at the 5 undergraduate and two alum colleges. The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Contest affairs combines student-athletes from Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd and Scripps to attempt in the NCAA Division III Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Acceptance can acquisition clubs that fit a advanced array of interests, from Without the Box ad-lib accumulation to Shades a cappella group, a part of abounding others. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, and about 97 percent of acceptance abide in academy apartment for four years.

Although it is primarily an undergraduate college, Claremont McKenna offers a alum master’s affairs in accounts through the Robert Day Academy of Economics and Finance. Claremont McKenna was originally founded as Claremont Men’s Academy but became coeducational in 1976. While at Claremont McKenna, hardly over bisected of all acceptance abstraction away in locations all over the world. The academy is home to 10 acclaimed analysis institutes alms acceptance the adeptness to conduct graduate-level analysis with faculty. Notable alumni cover amateur and actor Robin Williams and Paul Brickman, who wrote and directed the 1983 blur "Risky Business."

Carleton College

Carleton Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1866. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,057, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 955 acres. It utilizes a trimester-based bookish calendar. Carleton College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $49,263 (2015-16).

Carleton Academy is amid in the celebrated river boondocks of Northfield, Minnesota. The Carleton Knights accept 19 varsity able-bodied teams aggressive in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Able-bodied Conference. Carleton offers added than 170 apprentice organizations, abounding with artistic names, including the Carleton Juggling F.I.S.H., the One Knight Stands cabaret affiliation and the Knightingales a cappella group, to name a few. Intramural sports like quidditch, broomball, dodgeball and beach volleyball are aswell accepted a part of students. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, and about 90 percent of acceptance accept to abide on campus in one of the abode halls, aggregate absorption houses or campus townhouses.

Carleton Academy offers abutting to 40 undergraduate majors. The academy has abounding different traditions, including burglary and periodically announcement a adhesive apprehension of the German artist Friedrich Schiller that dates aback to the 1950s. A newer attitude is the "Silent Ball Party" during abstraction canicule above-mentioned to finals if acceptance don headphones and ball calm in the library. The Goodsell Observatory on Carleton’s campus houses three celebrated telescopes as able-bodied as several avant-garde telescopes accessible for classes and accessible houses. Notable alumni cover Anthony Downs, columnist of "An Economic Theory of Democracy," and above Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler.

Wellesley College

Wellesley Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1870. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,323, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 500 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Wellesley College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 4. Its charge and fees are $46,836 (2015-16).

Wellesley College, amid 12 west afar alfresco of Boston in Wellesley, Massachusetts, has a breathtaking campus encompassing a lake, woodlands, an acreage and accessible meadows. It is a advanced arts academy for women and is one of the aboriginal Seven Sisters Colleges, which includes Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Smith, Radcliffe (now allotment of Harvard), Bryn Mawr and Barnard. Acceptance can accept from added than 150 apprentice organizations on campus. The academy has 14 varsity able-bodied teams that are allotment of NCAA Division III East Academy Able-bodied Conference. Instead of sororities, Wellesley has societies that serve as amusing and bookish clubs. Housing is affirmed for admission freshmen, and the majority of acceptance reside in Wellesley’s 21 abode halls throughout their four years.

Wellesley has a cross-registration affairs with MIT, alms acceptance a greater ambit of courses. Also, acceptance can absorb a division in addition academy in the Northeast as allotment of the Twelve Academy Exchange Program. The academy has a able science program, including the nation’s additional oldest physics lab. Wellesley has a affairs alleged the Davis Degree Program, which allows women earlier than 24 to appear college. The academy aswell has abounding traditions, including an anniversary hoop-rolling chase amid the seniors, and stepsinging, if the bookish classes try to out-sing anniversary other. Notable alumni cover above Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; above Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; and ABC account ballast Diane Sawyer.

Pomona College

Pomona Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1887. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 1,650, its ambience is suburban, and the campus admeasurement is 140 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Pomona College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 4. Its charge and fees are $47,620 (2015-16).

Pomona Academy is amid in Claremont, California, 35 afar east of city Los Angeles abreast the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Pomona’s founders envisioned "a academy of the New England type" if they created this academy with baby classes and able student-faculty relationships. Pomona is a affiliate of the NCAA Division III Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. On-campus apartment is affirmed if requested, and added than 97 percent of acceptance reside in the 14 abode halls, two-thirds of which accommodate individual rooms. Pomona offers added than 200 apprentice organizations. A acclaimed abstruse club alleged "Mulfi" has larboard cryptic addendum with amusing annotation about campus back the 1940s. Acceptance can aswell get complex with the three campus fraternities.

Pomona Academy has about 45 majors and offers a 8:1 student-faculty ratio. Pomona acceptance can aswell yield classes at the added six colleges in the Claremont Colleges consortium: Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Pitzer College, Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences. Added than bisected of Pomona acceptance abstraction away through the about 50 programs Pomona offers in about 30 countries. "Ski-Beach Day" takes advantage of Pomona’s different location: Acceptance ski at a bounded resort in the morning, and absorb the afternoon at a bank in Orange County. Notable alumni cover above New York Times controlling editor Bill Keller and acclaimed choral aqueduct Robert Shaw.

Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1800. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,526, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 350 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based bookish calendar. Middlebury College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 4. Its charge and fees are $47,828 (2015-16).

Middlebury College is amid in the Champlain Valley amid the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks in the baby boondocks of Middlebury, Vermont. The Middlebury Panthers accept 31 NCAA Division III varsity teams and are associates of the New England Baby College Athletic Conference. Acceptance can accompany added than 150 organizations on campus. For skiers, Middlebury has 17 trails on the Middlebury College Snow Bowl ski area. The academy aswell competes in "Muggle Quidditch" and founded the International Quidditch Association based on the action from the "Harry Potter" novels. Middlebury aswell hosts the country's oldest Winter Carnival, featuring a ski antagonism and music. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus and are assigned to one of 5 Commons, which accommodate bookish and amusing activities.

Middlebury College's alum programs action a Master of Arts amount and Doctor of Modern Languages. The Middlebury Language Schools yield abode in the summer and action apprenticeship in 10 languages. Middlebury is aswell the home to the Bread Loaf Academy of English, as able-bodied as the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, one of the oldest and a lot of celebrated writers' conferences. C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Away has added than 40 schools in 16 countries for acceptance to abstraction abroad, and added than 50 percent of juniors abstraction abroad. Notable alumni cover above White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer; columnist Eve Ensler, columnist of "The Vagina Monologues"; the associates of the accepted bandage Dispatch; and biographer Jeff Lindsay, who wrote the books that accept become the base for the TV appearance "Dexter."