Given these criteria - which college would you pick?

I would go to the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

middlebury or william & mary? conn coll? berkeley?

I agree with i think.

Look at the NESCAC conference. You'd probably have a great experience at any of those schools: Colby, Middlebury, etc. If you have graduate study or professional school, you should go someplace rigorous to better prepare you for your grad work.

TV's Dr. Drew Pinsky said that medical school was actually fun because his days at Amherst had prepared him to think on his feet, write well, and have good habits.

I think I'd look at D3 (or W & M or UC Berkeley for D1) before any state or regional-state D1 school--given your desires. But remember, no scholarships for Ivy or D3, but you could get need based money to chip away at that high tuition.

Also, put partying lower on your list of desires. You should have a rich social life, but parties should only be a small part of it.

Schools like Middlebury and Williams might not meet your "good weather" criterion. You might want to go as far as south as Pennsylvania.

you are a junior in high school, with a pr of 4:30 in the mile as a sophmore; (so say you); which means: you haven't even run track for your junior year yet, let alone your senior year. why don't you wait until you have at least got your junior year under your belt? you know how much you could improve in the next 2 seasons (or not), which would render your thread meaningless? Just go run and quit overthinking things; for God's sake, kid.

Haverford.

Yeah Haverford sounds good...maybe Moravian, too.

It is clear that he should go to UNC.

That way he can meet all of his criteria and still run varsity.

If he doesn't want to run varsity, the club team is almost as good as their varsity team.

Cannot beat the school, city, girls (I guess), sports, etc...

I'll throw a west coaster out there, Pomona. DIII, good weather, good school, just a thought.

likes partying, drinking, girls, big time sports

What would you do?[/quote]

I wouldn't even recruit you if you were a 4:15 miler.

Please don't run in college and give someone an ulcer with your crap.

You want to be a good runner what a joke.

agree coach. Go to UNC.

1. USC

2. Emory

3. William and Mary

4. Rice

5. Tulane

Tell him to run on concrete as much as possible.

What if this person is a she?

Yay, another, "Where did you go to college?" thread!

A D2 Coach wrote:

likes partying, drinking, girls, big time sports

What would you do?

I wouldn't even recruit you if you were a 4:15 miler.

Please don't run in college and give someone an ulcer with your crap.

You want to be a good runner what a joke.[/quote]

hahah tell that to pre ya dumb f**k.

N.O. wrote:

A D2 Coach wrote:

likes partying, drinking, girls, big time sports

What would you do?

I wouldn't even recruit you if you were a 4:15 miler.

Please don't run in college and give someone an ulcer with your crap.

You want to be a good runner what a joke.

hahah tell that to pre ya dumb f**k.[/quote]

Prefontaine is dead.

UWO!!!

Improve and you could probably run at W&M, Columbia, Princeton or Duke. Wake might not be too bad either; I had a high school teammate look there and go DIII instead...

As far as DIII I won't make any claims on my school since we're mediocre, but any NESCAC or UAA schools are a good bet, Centennial isn't bad either. There are plenty of good DIII schools with good academics and good running, regardless of your regional preference (New England, mid-Atlantic, South, midwest, Plains, etc.) Look at the DIII nationals results- about half the teams are top 50 liberal arts schools (that or they're in the UAA and top 40 universities).

I'm thinking Vanderbilt. They don't have a XC team (or at least 6 years ago they didn't when I was looking at schools), so even though they're D1 you could easilly run for their track team. They're all about football and basketball is decent enough. Southern girls are no joke either.

Another obvious choice no one has mentioned yet is Duke. When I met with the coach he said they only offer 1 scholarship every 4 years, so everyone else is walk ons.

Emory might fit also, but you'd sacrific the big sports a bit.