Classics and English Double Major + apartment style dorms for freshmen

[Moira in MA]

We have 3 possibles in Canada: McGill, Dalhousie and Queens

 

Anyone know of such a place in the US?

 

Dd and I are trying to find somewhere for her to apply to in the US (outside the Boston area) that offers these options but are coming up empty handed.

 

Thought I'd try the hive mind.

 

Any help is appreciated

 

~Moira

[TravelingChris]

University of Alabama Honors college. They have great dorms for freshman. Since they have so many majors, I am sure they have both of those.

[Moira in MA]

Thanks Chris

 

But I don't think this is for her. Way too far south.

 

Moira

[Karen in CO]

If I had a student interested in a Classics degree, I would encourage him to look at Saint John's in Annapolis.

[TravelingChris]

I understand Moira, my daughter refuses to look at cold colleges. It's so funny. She is thinking about how she can get out of playing soccer today because it is cold outside. (40's right now, should be low 50's by then). She has relented a bit and is saying she will consider colleges in a little colder places than here.

[Laura Corin]

Oxford has a Classics and English degree.... It's not very cold there. Not sure about the accommodation. It used to be single bedrooms.

 

Laura

[Samuel]

Oxford and Cambridge immediately came to mind as among the best places in the world to study classics. The weather is better in Cambridge, UK than Boston, though I wouldn't call it warm. Also, they have very high expectations for how much Greek and Latin freshmen enter with.

Princeton's classics department is very well regarded and NJ is not _that_ cold. Berkeley, if California is not too far. A lot of the east coast SLACs have good classics, but most of them would be cold. Somewhere like William and Mary might work.

 

Also, some religous SLACS have pretty good classics programs. Trinity and Wheaton (cold) come to mind, and I'm sure there are some on the Catholic side (Holy Cross?). What is it about cold weather and the study of classical cultures in the Mediterranean, anyway?

[Halftime Hope]

is University of Dallas. They have an outstanding classics program, in fact *all* students have to take a freshman core that includes classics. The school is Catholic, which may or may not be what you are looking for, but several of non-cath boardies here have kids there, so I wouldn't let that be a major block until you have a look. The apartment-style dorm doesn't look like it is an option for freshmen. There is a 360 virtual tour of a dorm room on their website, and they are opening up a new dorm next sem. for upperclassmen that looks very nice.

 

In Dallas, we consider ourselves southern or southwestern, but not "deep south" in the same sense as AL, and Dallas is pretty cosmopolitan. The area near campus has pretty neighborhoods to run/walk in, but I'd always want a dd to run with someone, no matter where. Lots of flights to the NE from here (she'd be ten minutes from DFW airport), so not a bad place to be.

 

 

hth

[Moira in MA]

Thanks for your suggestions but...

 

the problem is not finding Classics and English as a double major. It is finding it in combination with a self-catering option for a freshman. Most colleges require freshman to live on campus and be on the meal plan. Dd is very opposed to eating cane and corn sugars and these ingredients just can't be avoided in prepared meals -- they put sugar in chicken stock for goodness sake.

 

Some colleges indicate an ability to handle special diets but, since this is a dietary preference and there are no religious or medical reasons, we're concerned that she'll not be accommodated.

 

Laura: we seriously looked at Oxford, as well as Exeter and Durham, for this student but decided that it was just too distant for her at 18.

 

~Moira

[Nan in Mass]

And among other things, turned up Cornell. It has apartment style dorms that freshman can live in, at least according to their website. And they have a classics department and an English department.

 

Here is the rest of the search: http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/servlet/advsearchservlet?buttonPressed=next&navigateTo=9

 

I only searched NE and the mid Atlantic. You will probably have to hit refresh and then resubmit (at the bottom of the page).

 

-Nan

[Moira in MA]

Thanks Nan

 

Cornell is, in a word: spendy...well, okay, 2 words: spendy and isolated. I'll have her take a closer look at it later though. She's retaking the SAT this am.

 

On a happier note, she's quite interested in UNC-Chapel Hill that Latinteach turned up for us. But we're still looking.

 

~Moira

[Nan in Mass]

Well you said you didn't want Boston LOL. I'm just teasing. We have two at a very isolated college and intend to try to find a not-isolated-but-not-in-Boston school for the last one. I could be remembering TOTALLY wrong (so be careful), but I think I might remember that Cornell was competative - not necessarily competative to get into, although probably that, too, but cut-throat-type competative once you were in. We would eliminate it on those grounds.

-Nan