Southern Business Schools (and their honors programs) by 2014 US News rank of undergrad program
rank overall and rank among publics -- also: notable economics departments linked

#5 tie - #3       Virginia (McIntire) -- Economics (Elzinga, Holt)
#7 - #4            North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 
#8 tie - #5       Texas (McCombs) -- Honors Program   
#27 tie - #16 tie   Florida (Warrington)
                            Georgia (Terry) -- Economics (Selgin, Mustard)
                            Georgia Tech (Scheller)
                            Texas A&M (Mays) -- Business Honors Program -- Economics 
#38 tie - #23 tie    South Carolina (Moore; #1 int'l bus)                            
                           William & Mary (Mason)
#43 tie - #26 tie   Virginia Tech (Pamplin)  
#47 tie - #27 tie   Arkansas (Walton) -- Honors Program  minimum 28 -- David Gay in economics
                            Georgia State (Robinson) -- Honors Program
                            Tennessee -- Honors Program  
                            Oklahoma (Price)     
#72 tie - # 42 tie    LSU (Ourso) -- Business Residential College for 220 students
                            George Mason -- Honors -- Economics 
#87                      NC State (Poole)    

Alabama  (Culverhouse) -- Friedman Hall residence for 128 business majors
     B School #47 tie - #28 tie in 2003
           
Auburn (Harbert) -- Economics
    B School #49 tie - #26 tie in 2002 

UAB (Collat) -- Honors Program  

Florida State -- Economics (Gwartney, Benson, Holcombe)
    B School #41 tie - #25 tie in 2005

Kentucky  (Gatton) -- Honors Program

Ole Miss -- Economics (Van Boening, experimental econ & game theory; Shugart now @ Utah State)
    B School  #80 tie - #48 tie in 2002 

Mississippi State  
    B School  #130 tie - #80 tie in 2002 

Missouri (Trulaske)
    B School  # __ tie - #28 tie in 2003

Oklahoma State (Spears)
    B School #85 tie - #__ tie in 2003 

Clemson -- Walker Dept of Economics (Lindsay, Maloney, McCormick, Tollison)

Texas Tech (Rawls) -- Free Enterprise Institute  


University honors programs/colleges and other unusual opportunities  

ALABAMA -- Honors College 
            Automatic admission with 28 or 1240 (can apply as a freshman after earning 3.3 UA gpa)
            Fall 2004:  583 freshmen.
            Fall 2002:  323 freshmen with 30, 1339, 3.9 H.S. -- total of 1306 students
            Fall 1995:  212 freshmen -- total of 647 students
           Housing:  "the entire Ridgecrest community"
Computer-Based Honors Program  
            Up to 40 freshmen/year (scholarships of $4000/year to 6 ??)
                fall 2009, 39 freshmen with mean ACT = 33 and HS gpa = 4.17
            2009-10 graduates = 29 (3 in December, 24 in May, 2 in August)
Blount Undergraduate Initiative (a minor in A&S)
     Will admit approximately 180 for a fall '06 freshman class of 120-130.
            First class of freshmen entered Fall 99; eventual intake of 200 per year
      Director: English associate prof Joseph Hornsby (BA 76, JD 79, MA 80 UA; PhD Toronto)
      Housing in Blount Living-Learning Center for 180 students, including all freshmen.
                Fall '04: 49M, 112W.             Fall ’03: 59M, 106W.     Res Life webpage
       65% retention rate (or did he mean "graduation rate"?)
Departmental honors programs: English
        Philosophy:  Richards -- approx 50 majors Jan 05
        History:  Beito, Rable
"Interdepartmental Program in the Western Liberal Arts Tradition"  ??
Mallet Assembly  minimum of 28 or 1750 -- 100 residents (?) -- Res Life webpage  
 
AUBURN --  Honors College
            Automatic admission with 1280+ or 29+ and 3.75 HS
            Fall 04 freshmen:  N = 220; medians 30.9 & 4.11; F = 55%; Alabamians = 69%
                    compares to overall freshman medians of 24.3 & 3.53
            200 freshmen/year
            Housing: Broun, Harper, Little & Teague halls
Philosophy Department -- 2008 NY Times profile       
"World Literature" sequence (2 semesters) (was the "Great Books" requirement until fall '04)

UAB -- Honors College (includes University Honors Program)
        UHP's online "2012 Fact Sheet" -- Admits approximately 50 students per year
                51 incoming students (out of 575 applicants), average 30.69, range 23-35
                227 current students, average 29.51, range 20-36
        January 2009 website stated goals for 2006 = 480, 2010 = 750.
Department of Philosophy -- Scott Arnold  retired
        Concentration in Philosophy & Political Economy (PPE) --
            but Erik Angner to GMU; also Don Ross appears to be gone
         Departmental honors program

ARKANSAS -- New Honors College (Walton gift).  Minimum 28   In April 2002 the Walton Foundation gave $300M to the University, including $200M to the Honors College.  $75M to fund 75 scholarships of approximately $12,000 annually (for four years) for freshmen with 32+ and $24M to fund 75 scholarships annually (for four years) at some lower amount for students with lower scores.  Totals of 300 students in each of these two programs when completely phased in. 
According to the A&S webpage in August 2008, the Honors College “awards 355 scholarships of $8000 or more to incoming freshmen.”
    Fulbright College Honors Program
        Automatic admission with 28 and 3.5 HS
        Nearly 450 students
        Sturgis Fellowships: Ten per year @ $12K/yr each (plus out-of-state tuition waiver, if applicable) : 
    New Arkansan Non-Resident Tuition Award Scholarships -- 2013:  For freshmen and transfers from TN, MS, LA, TX, OK, KAN, MO --  Freshmen with 26 or 1170 and HS 3.6 get 90% waiver of out-of-state upcharge; students with 24 or 1090 and 3.25 get 80% waiver.
 
NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA

FLORIDA minimum 33 or 2070
         Housing:  Hume Hall          
    University Scholars Program

FLORIDA STATE  admittees' medians 31/2070 in fall 2013
     Film School
GEORGIA TECH  and  President's Scholarship Program       

GEORGIA
        summer 2012 website: SAT median 1473; mid-50% 1430-1490
        Housing: Myers Hall
    Foundation Fellows Program
        August 1999 press release:  60 Foundation Fellows; endowment = $ 47M
    Franklin Residential College (A&S)
        Rutherford Hall = 150 liberal arts majors

GEORGIA STATE -- Honors College minimum 26 or 1180 --  Housing:  GSU Lofts (newest)
    Freshmen Learning Communities
    out-of-state tuition waivers for "superior out-of-state and international students" but cannot exceed
            2% of undergraduate student body  (currently, 96% Georgia, 4% out-of-state)

KENTUCKY -- minimum 28 or 1250, average ACT in 2016 of 32
    2015 gift of $23 million to create Lewis Honors College  

LOUISVILLE -- McConnell Center

LSU -- Ogden Honors College -- Automatic admission with 3.5 (unweighted) HS and EITHER ACT 28 comp & 28 English OR 27 comp & 30 English OR SAT 1240 total & 630 V
            "Recommended" 1320 (including 660V) or 30 (including 30 English) or 29 (including 31 English) 
    English Department
    Political Science:  Stoner, Sandoz -- Voegelin Institute 
    Freshman non-resident scholarship programs

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS with 26 (and 27 in English); over 600 students   
    Merit scholarship program (figures shown for out-of-state students)
            27, 1210, 3.5 = T + B + $1850 housing + $500 books
            27, 1210, 3.0-3.49 = Full tuition
            23-26, 1060-1200, 2.7 = Non-resident tuition waived
    Eisenhower Center for American Studies
    Department of Film, Theatre & Communication Arts (includes film school) awarded 133 BAs in 03-04 (largest # in CLA)

MARYLAND -- Honors College
     Smith School of Business --  #20 tie - #12 tie in 2005
      Department of Economics-- Murrell, Schelling, Wallis
      History -- Belz

OLE MISS -- Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
            for fall 2016:  476 freshmen to enroll
                        57% from MS, the rest from 26 states & 1 foreign country
                        average ACT 31
            for Fall 2014:  372 freshmen to enroll
                                54% from MS, the rest from 25 states & 2 foreign countries
                                average ACT 30.5
            May 2014:  177 graduates (a record)
            for Fall 2013:  357 freshmen to enroll from 1133 apps (a record) 
                               62% from MS, the rest from 22 states & 1 foreign country
                               average ACT 30.2 
            May 2013:  148 graduates (a record)
            Fall 2012:   354 freshmen, ACT averages 30.2 
                               1050 students total
            Fall 2011:   313 entering freshmen (largest ever)
                               62% from MS, 38% from 21 states + 1 foreign country
                               Averages ACT 30.8 (up more than half point over last year) 
            Fall 2007:  670 students total, including 212 freshmen from over 400 applicants;
                                ACT "average" is "still 30"
            Fall 2005 freshmen:  n = 160 (a record); ACT median = 30.1; 69% in-state; 55%F
            April 2005:  456 students
            May 2004:  42 graduating seniors = 26 women, 16 men
            October 1999:  370 students; means of 31, 1350; minima of 28, 1240
            Fall 1998:  352 students, including 127 freshmen with medians of 31, 1350
     Croft Institute for International Studies
            Admits 45 students per year; 10 of whom receive $8000/year scholarships
                42 scholarships awarded 1998-2003, including 17 to out-of-state students !
            Opened July 1998.  16 BAs awarded 01-02 (first graduating class); 17 in 02-03
     Public Policy Leadership BA began fall 07 with approx 25 students per March 07 press release
     Lott Leadership Institute
            Executive director:  William Gotshall
            Scholarships worth $10,000 per year
     The Residential College opened August 2009;
            Luckyday Residential College opened August 2010
     English Department  
     Summer College for High School Students
     Scholarship page

MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Shackouls Honors College  
        $10M gift April '06 -- press release
        unconditional admission with 28 or 1240; conditional with 26 or 1170
        Out-of-state tuition waived for some.  Criteria have been 24 or 1090 and core HS 3.0; as of fall '05 26 or 1160

MISSOURI -- Honors College
            Apply with either 29 or 1280 AND top 10% HS
            Median ACT 30
            "Humanities Sequence"  (4-semester Great Books program)
School of Journalism
            direct admission of freshmen with 26 or 1170 OR top 10% HS
           "Journalism Scholars" with 29 or 1290 AND top 10% HS (also Honors College)
            "Walter Williams Scholars" with 33 or 1440
            800 undergraduates; 1000 students total
Non-Resident Scholars Awards     

NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL
Freshman admissions: “82 percent of each freshman class must be comprised of residents of North Carolina. For this reason, the number of available admission spots for out-of-state students is significantly smaller. Additionally, we receive more applications from students outside of the state. In recent years, approximately 17,000 students have applied for freshmen admission at Carolina. A little less than 10,000 of those students were considered out-of-state for admission purposes. Approximately 1,600 to 1,750 of those students received admission offers. The remaining 7,000 applicants were North Carolina residents. Usually about 4,500 of those students are admitted. These admission offers are targeted at yielding a freshman class of 3,500. There are no additional requirements for out-of-state students; we use the same process to evaluate both in-state and out-of-state students. However, because we are limited in the number we may admit from out of state and because we receive applications from very well qualified students throughout the nation and the world, the competition for out of state students is extremely strong.”  So: 17% vs. 64% acceptance rates.
    Honors Program
    Robertson Scholars program
    Morehead Fellowship program
    School of Journalism and Mass Communications
    TRANSFER ADMISSIONS?  Overall (resident & nonresident) acceptance rates:  Freshmen 35.4%; Transfers 41.4%

NORTH CAROLINA STATE --  University Honors Program and University Scholars Program   

NORTH CAROLINA-GREENSBORO -- Lloyd International Honors College
                   with 27, 1200 or 3.8 HS.
     Cornelia Strong College (residential)
   
OKLAHOMA  -- McClendon Honors College
        Minima 30 or 1330 and top 10% HS (or 3.75 HS)
        Fall 2002 freshmen: 425 (incl 316 Okla, 105 (?) nonresident); averages = 1332; 30
    Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage and
        Classics & Letters (Wilfred McClay from UT Chattanooga)   

OKLAHOMA STATE -- Honors College    minimum  27 or 1220   
    
SOUTH CAROLINA -- Honors College
        Fall 2011 freshmen mid-50%:   1380-1470
     Carolina Scholars and McNair Scholars
        Carolina Scholars are SC residents: 25/year @ $10K/year; 25/year @ $7K/year
        McNair Scholars are out-of-staters: 20/year @ $15K/year; 20/year @ $11K/year
        90 candidates invited to competition (50 residents; 40 nonresidents):
                   "top of their class" w/ 1300 or 29

CLEMSON -- Calhoun Honors College
            Top 10% HS and 1300 or 30
                OR top 15% HS and 1350 or 31
                OR top 20% HS and 1400 or 32
                OR top 25% HS and 1450 or 33
     Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism and its
            Lyceum Scholars Program  
            -- C. Bradley Thompson, director

TENNESSEE – Automatic admit with 29 or 1280
     Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy

TEXAS-AUSTIN -- University Honors Center
    Plan II Honors (Liberal Arts)
            Fall 2000 mid-50% = 1380-1490; minima 1300 or 30 plus top 10% HS
            150 freshmen each year
    Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas (very new, Thomas Pangle director)
            Older center, involving J. Budziszewski (philosophy & gov't), Rob Koons (philosophy), Marvin Olasky (journalism), was scuttled            

TEXAS A&M
     Out-of-state tuition waivers for students earning competitive scholarships worth $1000 or more!
     In-state tuition for 04-05 = $ 3690.      

TEXAS TECH --Honors College  
    Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (Stephen Balch, founding director)    
    Free Market Institute (Ben Powell, founding director) 

VIRGINIA -- Echols Scholars Program

WILLIAM & MARY -- Roy R. Charles Center (Monroe Scholars)
     
VIRGINIA TECH minimum 30 or 1350 

GEORGE MASON -- Honors College & University Scholars Program

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT -- Honors Program & Center for American Studies & Leadership Studies
        Honors admits "typically" have 1250+

CENTRAL ARKANSAS  -- Honors College
FLORIDA ATLANTIC -- Wilkes Honors College
MURRAY STATE --  Honors Program minimum 26 --  Residential colleges system
NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY --  Louisiana Scholars College  minima 27 / 1220 
MUW -- Gordy Honors College   minimum 24 ACT
TRUMAN STATE --  Honors Scholar Program
MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE -- University Honors College   minima 25/1160
       20 James Buchanan Fellowships per year, 29/1280, 3.5 (full tuition + other stuff)
       Great Books Interdisciplinary Minor in the department of English

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INDIANA-BLOOMINGTON 

Hutton Honors College
        Automatically admitted with 1350 or 31 OR top 5% HS
        includes Liberal Arts and Management Program ("LAMP").  
Political Science: Ostrom Center 
Kelley School of Business
        For admission as freshman, present 1300 or 30 and top 10% HS  (Most apply as freshmen for
            admission as sophomores)
        4000 undergrads; 60% nonresident (including 200 foreign students)
        Business Honors Program  

MICHIGAN STATE
   Undergraduate scholarships page
   James Madison College
        1000 undergraduates -- Admits 295 freshmen/year “on a space-available basis” – so apply early (by October 1 !)
        B.A. in Social Science (pol. & cons. theory; pol. economy; int’l relations; social relations)
        former dean -- William B. Allen
        South Case Hall living-learning center
        15% of JMC students are also in Honors College
        Summer study at Cambridge (G&C in summer ’08; had been St. Catherine’s)
     Eli Broad College of Business
     Honors College   Minima: 30 or 1360 and top 5% HS  

MIAMI OF OHIO
     Honors and Scholars Programs
        Minima  31 or 1360 and top 5% HS
     Farmer School of Business

BOWLING GREEN STATE
    Full-tuition scholarship if 3.8 at end of junior year and 30, 1300
    Department of Philosophy
            Tied at #42 nationally (with Duke, Rice,WashU) on Leiter's 98-00 list but not on 00-01 top 50.
            See also the Social Philosophy & Policy Center (what happened here??)
     Honors Program
            "Normally" 1200/27 and 3.5 HS
            1000 students
            Housing: Darrow Hall
     Chapman Learning Community (Arts & Sciences residential college)
            260 residents  

OHIO UNIVERSITY -- Honors Tutorial College
            30 or 1300, top 10% H.S.
            approximately 230 students total
       Economics (Vedder, Gallaway)  

PITTSBURGH
    University Honors College
        Automatic invitation with 30, 1350, top 5% HS
            20% of fall '99 freshmen were eligible (= approx. 600)
            eligible to compete for Chancelor's Scholarship if 1400(or 32) + 3.5 + top 5% HS
                700 invitations mailed; 450 apps returned; 100 invited to interview; 10-12 enroll
        Honors Housing: Forbes-Craig Apartments (n=102), not open to freshmen
        Offers BA or BPhil (thesis) in "Politics and Philosophy" = 51 hours min (18 pol, 18 phil, 9
            econ, 6 soph seminars (Phil 850 Phil & Liberal Democ; PS 650 Pol & Liberal Democ)
    Department of Philosophy -- 22 BAs in 2002-03
         Offers 24 hour "standard major," including 4 core courses (Logic, Ancient, Modern, Ethics)
            and 4 upper-level electives; a more intensive major is also available
          #5 in Leiter's "Philosophical Gourmet
    College of Business Administration  

CUNY --    Macaulay Honors College  (university-wide)
         Fall 2011 freshmen averages = 1405 and 93.4 (out of 100)
         All students accepted to the program receive full T scholarship + $7500 grant + laptop
      Baruch College -- Honors Programs
         2013-14 T:  $5730 NY, $15,300 NR
         Fall 2012 overall mid-50% SAT 1160-1320, median = 1218
         2% out-of-state (old number)
         Zicklin School of Business - Honors Program
 
CAL STATE FRESNO -- Smittkamp Family Honors Program
           75 students/year
           Minima:  1200 OR top 10% HS OR 3.6 in college-prep courses
              Scholarships to all of (in-state?) tuition + room + $200 book allowance
        Minor in Classical Studies -- Coordinator:  Bruce Thornton

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GREAT BOOKS (and other interesting) PROGRAMS

Notre Dame's Program of Liberal Studies 
Ignatius-Angelicum Liberal Studies Program 
U of Dallas graduate Institute of Philosophic Studies & its core curriculum
U of San Francisco St. Ignatius Institute  
  
St. John's College
Core Curriculum at Columbia 
    "An Oasis of Order: The Core Curriculum at Columbia College" e-book  (1995)
U of Chicago non-credit Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults
    short news story  

Rhodes College's Search for Values in Light of Western History and Religion
Millsaps College's The Heritage of the West in World Perspective
Sewanee's Humanities Program
Samford's Core Texts Program and University Fellows Program

Baylor's Great Texts Program and Brooks Residential College
Mercer's Great Books Program and McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles  
William Jewell's Oxbridge Honors Program

Pepperdine's Great Books Colloquium
Biola's Torrey Honors Institute   
C.S. Lewis College (planned)      

U. of Wisconsin Milwaukee's Certificate in Great Books   
Kansas State's Primary Texts Certificate 

Wilbur Wright College (Chicago) Scholars at Wright
       Current departmental info  
National Great Books Curriculum website
        Seminar syllabus (Bruce Gans)
How Now, Great Books? (2008)

Center for the Study of the Great Ideas blog  

William Casement's list of College Great Books Programs 

NAS list of "Recommended Programs"

Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) Choosing the Right College 2014-15     
    ISI Honors Program
  
ACTA's list of Oases of Excellence  
Association for the Study of Free Institutions's List of programs

UNO's Tocqueville Project (Suprenant)
Kenyon's Center for the Study of American Democracy (Karako)
Rhodes's Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy (Cullen) 
Emory's Program in Democracy & Citizenship (Bauerlein)  
Duke's Politics, Philosophy & Economics Program (Munger)
Georgetown's Tocqueville Forum  
Yale's Center for the Study of Representative Institutions  and William F. Buckley, Jr. Program  
Wisconsin's American Democracy Forum  
UCLA's Center for the Liberal Arts & Free Institutions
 
How to Do Really Well in College: A Guide for Freshmen, courtesy of the SUNY Oswego honors program
Back to school advice for college students from Walter Russell Mead

How to Really Prepare for College: A Guide for High School Students, also from SUNY Oswego

What a Teacher Wants in a Student, James Otteson

Thomas Jefferson's Recommended Reading with links

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SUMMER PROGRAMS

                    Great Books Programs

St. John's College Summer Program for High School Students  
    Five one-week sessions, 3 in Santa Fe and 2 in  Annapolis  

Thomas More Collegiate Summer Program for High School Students
     July 5-18, 2015  --  T + RB + books = $ 975  --  must have completed at least 2 years of HS

Thomas Aquinas High School Summer Program
    July 24-August 6, 2016 -- T + RB = $ 975 -- must have completed at least 3 years of HS

Great Books Summer Programs
    numerous dates at Amherst, Stanford & Oxford (Somerville), 2015

Explo at Yale, Wellesley, Wheaton, 2014

Samford Great Ideas Summer Institute
    Two sessions -- $595 
    apply by April 25, 2014
    press release re summer 2011 -- 22 HS studemts attended
    Jason Wallace, director

Mercer Great Books Summer Program for High School Students
    July 12-17, 2015
    T + RB = $650
    apply by April 1 -- via the McDonald Center for America's Fouonding Principles  

                    Creative Writing Programs

Sewanee Young Writers' Conference
    June 28-July 11, 2015 -- T + RB = $ 2200 -- "open to HS students of all grades" – review of applications began Feb 27, 2015

Rhodes Summer Writing Institute
    June 14-26, 2015 -- T + RB = $ 1800 -- must have completed at least 2 years of HS

Iowa Young Writers' Studio
      June 14-27 or July 5-18, 2015 -- T + RB = $ 2250 -- must have completed at least 2 years of HS – apply between Feb. 2 & 13

U. of St Andrews Creative Writing Summer Program
    June 18-July 9, 2016 -- T + RB = £2800 -- must have completed at least 2 years of HS -- apply by April 1 - max enrollment 25 

                    Theater arts, Music, Media arts, Journalism, Debate, Junior Statesman

National High School Institute (Northwestern U.)
    5 weeks (June) -- T + RB = from $5200 (5 weeks) to $7300 (7 weeks) -- must have completed junior year
             
                   Leadership

Alabama Governor's School at Samford  -- June 12-24, 2016; cost = $480
    In 2016:  92 rising seniors from 54 high schools in 25 counties     
    George Keller, director (assoc prof, biology & asst dean, A&S; 1993; BS Centre & PhD WVU)

Lott Institute, Summer Leadership Institute for High School Students at Ole Miss
    May 24-June 26 or June 28-July 31, 2015 -- 20 students per session -- $ 600
    HS principles’ nominations by Jan. 17; completed applications postmarked by Feb. 21
    25 or 1150 plus 3.2 HS gpa

Baylor High School Christian Leadership Institute
    June 25-28, 2015 -- $ 350
    Rising HS seniors – apply by March 20  

                    Academic

The Cities of God and Man at The King's College, NYC
    July 12-17, 2015 -- $ 1950 

UA Early College (summer program)
    Old program for rising seniors in top 20% HS with 28 or 1250
    June 1-30, 2010 -- $1800 (includes tuition for 7 hours credit)
    (205) 348-5599
Capstone Summer Honors Program -- Box 870110; 348-6380

Capstone Business Leadership Academy  
    WAS for rising seniors with unweighted 3.4 unweighted HS and 27 or 1210
    June 11-20 or July 9-18, 2012 -- $ 350 -- apply by April 1                    
    director: Lisa McKinney

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Millsaps October 2012 announcement of "Major Minds of Mississippi" program -- In-state HS juniors with
          28/1260 and unweighted HS GPA of 3.8 receive $22,000 scholarship (= >2/3 2013-14 T + fees)
    2011-12 "average net price" per College Navigator =  $22,770  (10-11 = $18,808; 09-10 = $15,937)
    12-13 T $ 30,974 --- R&B $ 10,826    
    Heritage Program

Southwestern U. April 2012:  "The average Southwestern student receiving financial aid pays around $19,000 per year toward the full sticker price of $46,810 which includes tuition, fees, room and board, books and a realistic estimate of personal expenses."

Richmond Jepson School of Leadership Studies -- Dean Sandra Peart
    BAs in 02-03: 36 English -- also 27 econ, 69 pol sci, 23 history

SAMFORD -- TEP acceptance rate for 03-04 (posted May 04) = 61-90% / for 05-06 (posted July 05) = 11-40%    
    2011-12 "average net price" per College Navigator = $24,734  (10-11 = $22,506; 09-10 = $21,624)  
            2011-12 T + fees = $23,962.  RB = $7806 (roughly).  So average discount = $7034 = 22%
    Core Texts Program  (director: Jason Wallace)
    University Fellows Program   
        Minima: 28 or 1260
        earlier requirements were 30 or 1340, 3.75
        average ACT for fall 08 inaugural class = 31, from 190 applicants
        max 45-50 students per year
        Director:  Bryan Johnson (English)
    Brock School of Business
        Art Carden  
        Brock Scholars Program (Sara Helms, director) 
    Endowment = $251 million as of June 30, 2013; $258 million as of Sept. 30, 2013.  

BAYLOR
    22-27    1080-1290            fall 04 freshmen = 2785
    2011-12 "average net price" per College Navigator $28,055 (10-11 = $26,870)
    Honors College – Housing: Memorial Hall (200W) and Alexander Hall (145M)
            includes Honors Program (all freshmen with 29 or 1270 invited to join);
                University Scholars Program; BIC; Great Texts Program
    Brooks Residentail College   
    Hankamer School of Business
            #62 tie nationally in 2002
    Ralph Wood in Religion Department
    Baylor in Oxford (summer) Christ Church; Baylor in Great Britain (summer) Imperial College, London

WILLIAM JEWELL 
    22-27    1090-1370            fall 04 freshmen = 358
    22-28; 1030-1290 – website 11/04 says average ACT = 24.4; endowment > $60 million
    Oxbridge Honors Program (automatic $9000 scholarship?)
        --  funded by $1 million+ multiyear grant from the Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City
        --  over 100 graduates since 1987 (= 1991?)
        --  admits 10-20 students each year
        --  programs in English Language & Literature, History,
                                    History of Ideas ("an interdisciplinary great books major"),
                                    Institutions & Policy (ppe), Music, and Science
        --  normally, junior year in either Cambridge (Homerton College) or
                    Oxford (Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies/Keble OR
                        Oxford Overseas Study Center (latter used by Hendrix and Mercer, too))
        --  director ("senior tutor"): D. Dean Dunham, Jr., Prof. of English (PhD, Nebraska)
    Pryor Leadership Program -- up to 36 students/year
    Was Time Magazine's "Liberal Arts College of the Year" 2001-02

LYNCHBURG     19-23     920-1110           fall 04 freshmen = 589
    Trustees Scholarship = $ 10,000, with 1200 and 3.25 OR 1050 and 3.5
    Westover Honors Program with 1200 and 3.5
            Director: Edward DeClair (FSU, int’l relations)
    LC Symposium Readings
  

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 Rule of thumb? Competitive for scholarship aid if in top 25% of admitees??
   Works for Birmingham-Southern
    Almost works for Alabama, where Tier I = 32, 1400, 3.8, top 2% HS
                                                         Tier II = 27, 1200, 3.5 (at least tuition) -- also trigger for
                                                                         Capstone Scholars Day, 2002)

Top 25% = ACT score of

31 (= 99th percentile)    Trinity (27) – Honors @ UGA

30 (= 97th percentile)    Richmond (27); Centre (25); Furman (25); Rhodes (25); Grove City (25); UNC (25); Berry (24); BSC (24), Hendrix (24); Tulsa (23) – Honors @ Michigan State, Indiana, Florida

29 (= 95th percentile)    Hillsdale (24), Pepperdine (24), Sewanee (24), Southwestern (24); Millsaps (23) – Honors @ Auburn, Baylor, Missouri, Tennessee, FSU, Oklahoma

28 (= 93rd percentile)    Pitt (24), Austin (23), TCU (23), Transylvania (23); Missouri (23); Agnes Scott (22), Centenary (22), Hanover (22); SAMFORD (22) – Honors @ Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, Ole Miss, Miss State

27 (= 90th percentile)    Baylor (22), Eckerd (22), Elon (22); William Jewell (22), Wofford (22); Mercer (22); Albertson (21), Stetson (21); Oglethorpe (20)

26 (= 86th percentile)    AUBURN (22); Illinois College (21), Presbyterian (21); ALABAMA (21); Emory & Henry (20), St. Vincent (20) – Honors at UNO, GeorgiaState

25 (= 82nd percentile)    Huntingdon (21); GMU (20); Ashland (19); UAB (19)

23 (= 71st percentile)     Lynchburg (19), SAPC (17)
 

What colleges' budget numbers show:

SEWANEE  FY 2005:  Tuition and fees of $40.2 M, "less institutional scholarships" of $11.7 M = $28.6 M "Net tuition and fees"
                                            (so, discount = 29.1%)
                    FY 2006:  $44.3 M, less $12.6 M = $31.7 M  (discount = 28.4%)
                    FY 2007:  $48.9 M, less $14.4 M = $34.5 M (discount = 29.5%)

Oglethorpe in 03-04: scholarships/tuition revenue = 37% discount (was 35% discount in 02-03)

Hanover in 03-04:  T + RB + fees = $22.5 M; less scholarships of $8.66M = "net tuition revenue" of $13.84M, a discount of 38.5%

Baylor in fall 04 discounted T an average of 35.7% (merit and need) vs. an '03 national average for private universities of 39.4%

Berry in 03-04:  T + fees = $28.2M; less "student assistance" of $12.2M = "net T + fees" of $16M, a discount of 43.3% (was 41.2% discount in 02-03)

Ashland in 04-05:  T + fees = $75.2M, "less scholarships" of $18.3M = "net T + fees" of $56.8M, a discount of 24.4% (was 23.4% discount in 03-04)
Ashland in 05-06:  T + fees = $76.1M, "less scholarships" of $19.7M = "net T + fees" of $56.4M, a discount of 25.8%
Ashland in 06-07:  T + fees = $80.7M, "less scholarships" of $21.5M = "net T + fees" of $59.3M, a discount of 26.6%
Ashland in 07-08:  T + fees = $85.4M, "less scholarships" of $23.3M = "net T + fees" of $62.1M, a discount of 27.3%
Ashland in 08-09:  T + fees = $86.7M, "less scholarships" of $25.3M = "net T + fees" of $61.4M, a discount of 29.2% 

STUDY ABROAD  

"Junior Year Abroad"
     London School of Economics ("The General Course")   -- 340 students in 1999-2000; US students with a 3.3 GPA "will be seriously considered"; 75% of General Course students live in LSE or intercollegiate housing
     King's College London
     St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford   --  "visiting students"
     Worcester College, Oxford  --  Visiting Student Programme through IFSA-Butler min 3.7 GPA
     Univ. of Kent at Canterbury1

2 from the ACS list:
Wabash College's  The Scotland Program at U. of Aberdeen
Lancaster U. international office

Boston University:  St. Anne's (Oxford) 

SUNY Brockport:   Hertford, St. Catherine's, New, Christ Church; UCL; St. Andrew's; many Australian
University of Southern Mississippi:   Macquarie (Australia); Victoria (Canada)
Arcadia University CEA (includes Trinity College Dublin)
Butler University IFSA (includes TCD)
CIS (includes TCD)
interstudy (includes TCD)
ccisabroad
iesabroad
Study Abroad (private; used by U. of Alabama)

Cambridge International Summer Schools 
Undergraduate summer program at King's and Pembroke colleges --
        in association with UC Berkeley
        160 students max (?)
        2014 tuition £2428 + room & board £1428-2214 -- Berkeley says $14,850 (including transportation)

Oxford summer schools
other Oxford programs
    British Studies at Oxford (summer) -- Associated Colleges of the South
    Middlebury College-Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Humanities Program -- affiliated with Keble (formerly St Peter's)
    Oxford Study Abroad Programme
    Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
    -- Semester and Summer Oxford programmes in association with Wycliffe Hall  

Queen’s U International Study Centre, Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, East Sussex, UK

studying in Ireland (government site)

Study in Australia (government site)
Australearn (private)
Study Australia (private)

Maclean's Magazine info on Canadian universities, including rankings
Canadian government page on int'l students in Canadian universities
       Reasonable T and fees for international students

Colleges & Universities of the Anglican Communion
    click "exchange & networking," then "student exchange"
International Partnership for Service Learning and Leadership
Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)
Canterbury Scholars ("International Study Center" at the Cathedral)

 Universities and Colleges Admission Services (UK)  (includes info for American applicants, and an extensive run-down of
    admission requirements expressed in terms of scores on IB exams)
 Unofficial Guides to UK Universities