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Hipster Colleges

Top 10 schools where the students knew about this list way before you did.
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Colorado College

Colorado College is a haven of liberalism in the notoriously conservative city of Colorado Springs.

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  • Full name: Colorado College
  • Location: Colorado Springs, CO
  • Founded: 1874
  • Tuition: $40,050
  • Setting: Suburban
  • Public/Private: Private
  • Selectivity: More Selective
  • % Applications Admitted: 26%
  • Undergraduates: 2,026
  • Graduates: 26
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Colorado College on this year's ranking list:

While a lot of colleges find themselves isolated culturally or politically from their surroundings, Colorado College may take the cake: while its student body may be overwhelmingly liberal, the school shares a home city with the Air Force Academy and the headquarters of conservative group Focus on the Family. While the location may be less than ideal for some students in that regard, its proximity to the outdoors will keep the rock-climbing, biking, hiking hipster happy. In similarly eco-minded style, the college has a student run farming program and two-acre garden which

contributes its crop to the dining hall as well as the local farmer's market. (In the hipster spirit of contrariness, of course, there is also a meat appreciation club.) Colorado also sets itself apart academically, trading semesters for eight “blocks” a year, in which students take only one class for a month before moving on to the next course. Thanks to this structure, students get to go on the kind of week-long field trips – to study volcanic rock formations or traditional Native American ceremonies, for instance – that other students and professors only dream about.

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