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.