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post #31 of 136
8/21/06 at 10:39am
Montana State has strong programs in engineering, agriculture, many of the sciences, music and film. If you are majoring in one of those fields it is a great college.
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post #32 of 136
8/21/06 at 10:59am
UW is a good choice if you don't mind skiing Alpental mostly. Also, UBC is pretty good, Whistler nearby.
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post #33 of 136
8/22/06 at 4:16am
I forgot to mention one of the best reasons to go to CMC. My wife just flew back from filming a tv spot and promotional video for them.
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post #34 of 136
8/22/06 at 9:43am
My top choice at this point would be Montana State. Bozeman's a really cool mountain/ski/college town. Bridger's right there, Big Sky's not far away, and everything's more affordable for a poor college student. U of U is a little too LDS for me and SLC is a little big to be considered a good college town. Same with Spokane but Gonzaga's a good school with Schweitzer, Silver fairly close by. You can also night ski at Mt. Spokane if you're not busy studying (which is what you should be doing during the week! ). All things considered though, Montana State would be my first choice.
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post #35 of 136
8/22/06 at 10:04am

Cmc

I work for CMC Leadville. It is great for the outdoors (20 mins from Copper), but academics are pretty poor (well except for maybe the Natural Resource Management Program)

Most of the students are there to ski/board/get stoned on their parents dime (talking Leadville, not dissing other campuses) academics run second

Go to a real school where you can also ski like U of U, MSU..
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post #36 of 136
8/22/06 at 10:10am
This is a little bit of a thread hijack, but what about catholic colleges near good skiing? Gonzaga U in Spokane sounds like a fine candidate. Anybody know about the reputations of Regis U in Denver or College of Santa Fe in NM or others?

My advice to wasatchskier: coming from a father of two college students, get your grades up now and when the time comes pick multiple candidates and let the applications fly. The acceptance process can be extremely competive for many schools and you may wind-up in your third or fourth choice.
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post #37 of 136
8/22/06 at 5:50pm
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I know U of VT was said ealier, but Ive known a few people who skied thiir way through college there and had a blast.
Exactly why it took me 5 years to finish...I was on the Dean's other list. Also the most expensive state school in the country. On the upside, they have a med school right there and UVM undergrads used to get some preference for med school. Not sure if it's still true, but the UVM business school was not accredited back in the early 80's. In fact, Univ of Maine was the only state school in New England that was back then. I'm pretty sure UNH is also accredited now.
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post #38 of 136
8/22/06 at 8:42pm

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I can't believe no one mention DU (University of Denver) probably the highest rated western school mentioned and holder of over 20 NCAA titles in Division 1 skiing and hockey. The school has been totally rebuilt over the past few years and is very heavily endowed. Denver is a great and active city within 2 hours of every major CO resort (Vail, BC, Copper, Breck, WP, A-basin, Keystone etc,) Boulder is just 30 minutes away. DU has a great skiing tradition.

CU would be a great choice but Boulder may have "too much distraction" to get any real work done. DU is a better school rated among America's top 50.
FINALLY! I will be a sophmore there when classes begin on sept 11. Last year I skied about 85 days without a car and still had a 3.8. I had friends that were able to hold down jobs being waiters in denver and still ski 90 days (I don't know how but they did). Denver is expensive but I believe it was worth the sacrafice for me, I am paying for some of my college. DU is about 4000 undergrads, the perfect size to continually see people while always having the ability to meet new people. The campus is beautiful and is 10 min from downtown Denver. We are on the quarter system which means:

Fall Quarter: September --> Thanksgiving.
(Winter Break): Thanksgiving --> New Years. Get a jump on the season!
Winter Quarter: January 4ish --> Mid March.
Spring Quarter: Mid March --> June 5ish.

Most students do not have classes on Friday, unless you are a science major, so you can always have fridays reserved for skiing. I was able to stack my classes during winter quarter so I only had class on tuesdays and thursdays. I would go up Thursday night not come back until Monday night then go up for a day trip on Wendsday and still was able to have an active social life. BTW the girls are pretty good, for the most part. It was perfect.

Enough ranting, if you are at all interested pm me and I'll answer any more questions.
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post #39 of 136
8/23/06 at 1:44am
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Originally Posted by Jamesj View Post
This is a little bit of a thread hijack, but what about catholic colleges near good skiing? Gonzaga U in Spokane sounds like a fine candidate. Anybody know about the reputations of Regis U in Denver or College of Santa Fe in NM or others?

My advice to wasatchskier: coming from a father of two college students, get your grades up now and when the time comes pick multiple candidates and let the applications fly. The acceptance process can be extremely competive for many schools and you may wind-up in your third or fourth choice.
I don't know about Regis or Santa Fe other than that the former is Jesuit, and they generally do a graet job (no points for spotting the kid who went to a Jesuit HS). Ditto Gonzaga and Seattle U. Both SU and Portland will get you close to skiing, but not on the slope.

What about Carroll in Missoula? I looked at it briefly back when I was applying to schools, but I didn't think the academics were that great. But Missoula's a great town. In the northeast you have Colgate and Holy Cross. Again, not on the slope but not too far away, and excellent academics. Then there's always BC.
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post #40 of 136
8/23/06 at 5:47am
Carroll is in Helena, MT. (I'd like my younger daughter to go there.) It has an excellent academic rep and a good reputation for placing grads in medical school. They play NAIA and their football team has been national champs the past four years. Their men's and women's basketball teams are also strong national contenders. Helena is within easy driving distance of Great Divide (local area), Showdown, Discovery Basin, Bridger Bowl, Big Sky...

My older daughter will graduate in Poli Sci/pre law from University of Montana this year. I think she's gotten a fine education there (relatively few beans in her ears, despite her major).
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post #41 of 136
8/23/06 at 9:51am
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Exactly why it took me 5 years to finish...
Been there, and done that. :
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post #42 of 136
8/23/06 at 9:58am
College of Santa Fe is very good for creative studies: film, documentary studies, photography, art, art history, music. They have big tennis and piano programs thanks to a huge bequest. If you want a really good academic college in Santa Fe, St. John's has a campus in SF as well as the one in Annapolis. UNM has a good med school. But if it's a bad snow year here like last year, you have to drive three hours to get to snow.
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post #43 of 136
8/23/06 at 7:34pm

Leigh Rules!!!!

The U of Maine at Farmington is an option as well. Farmington is 1 hour (or 45 min, depending on how fast you drive) south of Sugarloaf/USA and about 1 hour north of Sunday River (aka Someday Bigger). I graduated from there in '02 and I got a lot of skiing in. The extra bonus is that if you are at all interested in becoming an instructor, or coach, or ski business type person there is a program for you.

It is the "Ski Industries Program". It is headed by Leigh Breidenbach and Ron Bonnevie and sometimes Coach Tom Reynolds. They are really great people and you can learn so much from them. There is no way I would have ever passed my Cert levels if it was not for them. Plus every other day you ski as part of your class, cool huh?

The college itself is small, inexpensive, and in the middle of nowhere. It is a teachers college, which means a good amount of the opposite sex, but that's not important at all though....right? (Although there is the joke: What's the difference between a northern Maine woman and a moose? About 50 lbs. and a flannel shirt.)

That's where I went and now I have a business degree that I don't use and loans that I try to pay back by being a full-time ski instructor, very smart I know.....I got learned up good, huh?
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post #44 of 136
8/23/06 at 8:15pm
Weber State might be an option for you. It's not the greatest school (it's pretty much open enrollment), but you're really close to Snowbasin. If they ever get the Lift Ogden project approved, Weber State will be the only ski-in, ski-out campus in the country.
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post #45 of 136
8/23/06 at 8:33pm
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Weber State might be an option for you. It's not the greatest school (it's pretty much open enrollment), but you're really close to Snowbasin. If they ever get the Lift Ogden project approved, Weber State will be the only ski-in, ski-out campus in the country.
Perhaps you're not familiar with Michigan Tech, which owns and operates its own ski hill, Mont Ripley, right across from the campus. Its no Snowbasin, but we got 300" last year.
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post #46 of 136
8/24/06 at 7:49am
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Perhaps you're not familiar with Michigan Tech, which owns and operates its own ski hill, Mont Ripley, right across from the campus. Its no Snowbasin, but we got 300" last year.
No one ever listens to us TC...........

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post #47 of 136
8/24/06 at 8:24am

What he said...

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I highly recommend the University of Colorado at Boulder. I'm slightly biased since I graduated there in May, but having spent my last four years there, I completely fell in love with the state and town. I've had to move away since I joined the army and have been gone for nearly 3 months and am already trying to figure out how I can get back.

CU is within about 1.5 hours of Keystone, Winter Park/Marjane, Loveland(which is a bit closer), Copper Mountain, Breckenridge, and Arapahoe Basin. It's 2 hours to Vail and 4 hours from Aspen. In my 4 years I managed to ski all of those mountains...there's great deals on season passes for students, $175 to Copper/Winter Park, and $350 for Keystone/ABasin/Breckenridge +10 days to Vail/Beaver Creek.


The school itself is right next to the foothills of the mountains and the campus is gorgeous. It has a very liberal student population, but you can walk any line you want to there(I'm a conservative military guy myself and loved it). It's only 40 minutes from downtown Denver. The student population is incredibly involved in outdoor sports like rock climbing, skiing/boarding, running, you name it. There's a reason why Outside magazine recently labeled Boulder as the #1 outside town to live in.

Going to school there was one of the best choices I've ever made.
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...also don't forget that Eldora is 45 minutes away, and that's where the CU Buffs train (2006 NCAA champions)...
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post #48 of 136
8/24/06 at 9:29am
The U of U has ski classes for credit. I was a ski instructor there and I know you can ski Atla, Snowbird, Brighton, and Solotude for credits. plus you can
work up to Instructor. The U of U is a great place to go to school.
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post #49 of 136
8/24/06 at 9:34am
There is also a CMC campus in Breckenridge for those of you who didn't know that. My Son spent two years at CMC in Steamboat. He transfered from Bussiness to Education this past year. He is going to be a History teacher and going to Fredonia State here in N.Y. What we found out about CMC is their guidance staff sucks. Less than half of the credit hours he got there transfered. He will have to go an extra year for a degree now.

My advice, if you go there or send your kid there, pay strict attention to his or her advisor and make sure they are on top of it.
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post #50 of 136
8/24/06 at 10:09am
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There is also a CMC campus in Breckenridge for those of you who didn't know that. My Son spent two years at CMC in Steamboat. He transfered from Bussiness to Education this past year. He is going to be a History teacher and going to Fredonia State here in N.Y. What we found out about CMC is their guidance staff sucks. Less than half of the credit hours he got there transfered. He will have to go an extra year for a degree now.

My advice, if you go there or send your kid there, pay strict attention to his or her advisor and make sure they are on top of it.
What I said!
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post #51 of 136
8/24/06 at 12:48pm
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Exactly why it took me 5 years to finish...I was on the Dean's other list.
Four and a half years for me, but I didn't learn anything. Well, I did learn how to get to Mad River. UVM was a lot of fun and the skiing is not too far away.
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post #52 of 136
8/24/06 at 1:13pm
Weber State, University of Utah, WWU, UNR, Westminster, and many many others.

You really do have a lot of options. I wouldn't rule out the U of U as being too LDS. You can actually commute to the school from Park City.
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post #53 of 136
8/24/06 at 4:13pm
What nobody said anything about BYU! They have a great business school and your parents will like the fact you won't be doing any drinking while in school at least not on campus.
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post #54 of 136
8/24/06 at 4:37pm
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Four and a half years for me, but I didn't learn anything. Well, I did learn how to get to Mad River. UVM was a lot of fun and the skiing is not too far away.
I learned how to get through life fat, drunk, and stupid...well, I wasn't fat. I have since learned that I underestimated the stupid part. I've met a lot of people that went to "better" schools that are stupider than me. Not so sure the members of this forum would agree with me on that one.

I travel east to ski pretty often. Let's plan to do some turns next year. Gore, Mt Snow, Stratton...I've done them all in a day trip.
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post #55 of 136
8/24/06 at 4:50pm
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I've met a lot of people that went to "better" schools that are stupider than me.
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Better save that for the political threads:

I travel east to ski pretty often. Let's plan to do some turns next year. Gore, Mt Snow, Stratton...I've done them all in a day trip.
I'm up for it. We had a great time at Killington (Phil Phest) this past spring.
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post #56 of 136
8/24/06 at 9:39pm
There's always Westminster's Winter semester program if you want to sample the Utah lifestyle and see if it works for you, http://westminstercollege.edu/snow/ it looks pretty cool and you should get plenty of skiing/riding in!
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post #57 of 136
8/25/06 at 7:43am
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There's always Westminster's Winter semester program if you want to sample the Utah lifestyle and see if it works for you, http://westminstercollege.edu/snow/ it looks pretty cool and you should get plenty of skiing/riding in!
I have heard nothing but good about Westminster. You can get an excellent education with smaller class sizes and the area around the campus is hip, the sugarhouse area is pretty happening.
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post #58 of 136
8/28/06 at 7:39pm
UVM baby. Im within 2 hours of a mess of mountains, less than 1 hour from MRG, Stowe, smuggs, bush and bolton.

Thay and we are a really good school, considered a public Ivy
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post #59 of 136
8/29/06 at 6:24am
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UVM baby. ,... we are a really good school, considered a public Ivy
One could argue that Cal Berkeley or the University of Virginia are public Ivy but UVM is clearly not. In fact there are about 35 to 40 public universities in the country rated higher than UVM. I am not disparaging UVM, as it is obviously a fine university and one can get a good education there. However you just can't put it in the same class as the top schools.
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post #60 of 136
8/29/06 at 7:04am
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One could argue that Cal Berkeley or the University of Virginia are public Ivy but UVM is clearly not.
I beg your pardon. It most certainly is! Especially if you remove the academic aspect.
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