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I live in Maine and I am thinking about going to school down south. I want to major in either occupational or physical therapy. I don't think I want to go to a school in the deep south but somewhere like Kentucky, Tennessee or Virginia. I was wondering if anyone knew of any good schools in those areas or close to it. Thanks!

*Guide
Pub = Public University
Pri = Private University
LAC = Liberal Arts College
MAS = Masters University (School that offers up to a Masters degree)

–Schools To Look At–

Kentucky
- Centre College (LAC)
- University of Kentucky (Pub)
- Berea College (LAC)
- Murray State University (MAS)

Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University (Pri)
- Sewanee — University of the South (LAC)
- University of Tennessee (Pub)
- Rhodes College (LAC)
- Belmont University (MAS)

Virginia
- University of Virginia (Pub)
- College of William and Mary (Pub)
- Washington & Lee University (LAC)
- James Madison University (MAS)
- Virginia Tech (Pub)
- University of Richmond (LAC)

North Carolina
- Duke University (Pri)
- University of North Carolina (Pub)
- Davidson College (LAC)
- Wake Forest (Pri)
- NC State University (Pub)
- Elon University (MAS)

Maryland (might be a bit too far north for you)
- Johns Hopkins University (Pri)
- Georgetown University (Pri)
- University of Maryland (Pub)
- George Washington University (Pri)
- Howard University (Pri)
- Loyola College of Maryland (MAS)
- American University (Pri)

Georgia (might be too southern for your tastes)
- Emory University (Pri)
- Georgia Tech University (Pub)
- University of Georgia (Pub)
- Agnes Scott College (LAC)
- Mercer University (MAS)

Schools I've Seriously Looked At…
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
Emory
College of William and Mary
UNC
UVA

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I live in central Maine and I want to go to school for 3D modelling and/or animation but the closest one I've found is somewhere in Florida. Does anyone know of any schools in the New England area? If not, what would be the closest?

For animation, you want to study at the best art school that you can. And there are lots of those in the New England area. Those that offer animation (and you can focus on 3D animation within the broader animation field) or computer animation are:
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Mass Art
- Maine College of Art
- Boston University
- Suffolk University (New England School of Art & Design)

And check if University of Maine offers anything. They might. Likewise UNH and UMass Amherst. Those schools do have art majors, and they do have some computer art classes, but I don't remember, offhand, if you can focus on 3D animation.

If you're willing to go further from home, you can find programs at:
- NYU
- Parsons
- Pratt
- School of Visual Arts
- Syracuse
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rensselaer Polytechnic

Sometimes, to find this major, you have to look under either animation, or under media/film. So if you broaden your search beyond the specifics of 3D animation, and find programs in animation or media/film, check each program specifically to see if they offer 3D animation specifically. So start broader, then get narrow. Don't start so narrow.

Try to avoid tech schools or career colleges. I'm not loving that one in Florida, btw.

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I am not interested in a community college and could leave state borders if not TOO far away.

algebra 2 is easy. maybe a buisiness major, but that might only be with community college.

I live in Rhode Island and I want to move there with my girlfriend in some years…I visit Maine in the summers and went to college there, but I was wondering how life is living there year-round.

Maine year round isn't to to different from Rhode Island, depending on where you go to live. The roads around your place may not be plowed as they were in Rhode Island as in it will take a little longer if you live in a rural setting. Stay out of the woods come hunting season if you aren't familiar with the area as you might scare away the game and tick some people off. You could get shot as well but unlikely. I would also recommend visiting southern maine and try to hold a conversation with a fisherman and then head to northern Maine and try and hold a conversation with a french canadian. That was like every holiday for me! Yeah and have fun with black fly season.

No matter where you live it will be one of the prettiest places in the country.

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my wifre and i are going to college in maine in 6 months in orono and were wondering how far that is from bangor maine if anybody could help it would be highly appreciated

I'm a UMaine student! I can help you! =D

I'd definitely have to say it's about ten minutes from Bangor limits to town limits. I'd guess if you're going from the University of Maine into Bangor itself, about twenty minutes driving.

In some cases, it's also actually easier, but a bit longer, to travel by the local bus, the BAT. It takes about half an hour on the bus (To get from the Union stop to downtown Bangor, by Pickering square) but if the weather's crappy or you just want to save gas, you can take that. UMaine students get to ride the bus for free so long as they show their MaineCard (Campus ID) to the bus driver. It's a great deal, especially for commuters and those who don't have a car (like myself, but I also live on campus).

If you decide to use the bus (Just for a quick bit of aside info here), the bus goes toward downtown Bangor between 30 and 35 past the hour, and arrives usually on the next hour or about five after the hour. It departs downtown 15 past the hour. (Saturdays have a very weird schedule which I won't get into here, but feel free to get in touch with me if you want more info on the local bus, I know the routes real well.)

So, I am a sophomore in high school and lately I have been very interested in searching for colleges that I would like to apply to next year. I want to be an optometrist, so I know that I need to take a lot of science, and also some mathematics before going to a college of optometry to recieve my OD (Doctor of Optometry)… I live in Massachusetts, and I was looking at some of the colleges in MA, but none of them interested me… then I received a book from my guidance counselor at school that described the most competitive colleges in the US in detail. I read about Bates College in Maine, and about how it is a smaller school (which i want) and also has a very warm and friendly enviroment. Has anyone heard of Bates College or attended it? Did you enjoy it there? What did you enjoy most? What did you not like? Also, are the science courses good, and are the professors as helpful and nice as the book said? Oh, and I have Celiac Disease (which is an intolerance to gluten) so would Bates cater to my dining needs?

Thanks so much for the help!!!

T <3

About your dietary needs, you’ll need to speak to the school directly. I’m sure *something* can be done, somehow, re: your meal plan, but that really depends on the school. At UMass Amherst, for example, you probably wouldn’t be able to be accommodated in the regular dining hall, but one of their residence halls has its own dining hall, which is far smaller, and they do cater closely to student preferences and needs there, so perhaps Bates has some sort of option like that? They might, because Bates is known as having excellent dining hall options. Worth asking them about.

Naturally, I’ve heard of Bates. It’s one of the top liberal arts colleges in the US, and would be a good choice if you wanted to go on to become an OD. Going to a strong school, and doing well there, will help you get into competitive graduate programs, be that OD or something else.

If you think you might like Bates, then I think you may also want to have a look at: Smith, Bowdoin (I think you may like this one), Colby College, Middlebury (you may *really* like Middlebury), Skidmore, Dartmouth (of the Ivys, this is the one I’d pick for you as #1), Oberlin, Vassar, Brown, Washington U in Saint Louis, Bryn Mawr, Pomona College, Claremont McKenna, and Princeton.

Is Maine College of Art (M.E.C.A) hard to get into?
Is it a good art college?

Im a first year student at MECA right now and I would say that it is not “hard” to get into like RISD, which is an “elite” art school, however it is a very good art school, and they do look at everything they ask for in the application so make sure it is complete. They are a very diverse school and dont have a specific mold they want the students to fit like RISD does. Just give you best effort and you will get in.

I love the school and I would rank it up there with MassArt (also a very good art school), and is very less traditional than RISD, which I also absolutely love.