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Colleges for the Free Spirit

You wear a tutu to school and don't notice (or care) about the funny looks you garner--you're probably a free spirit. Our experts chose schools for students who consider themselves to be unconventional, even eccentric or funky.

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Top Choices

• Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
• Beloit College (Beloit, WI)
• Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME)
• Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
• Deep Springs College (Dyer, NV)
• Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
• Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
• Guilford College (Greensboro, NC)
• Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
• Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
• Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR)
• Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
• Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT)
• New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Prescott College (Prescott, AZ)
• Reed College (Portland, OR)
• Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
• Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
• St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
• St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)

Honorable Mention

• Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA)
• Bard College at Simon's Rock (Great Barrington, MA)
• Berea College (Berea, KY)
• Boston University (Boston, MA)
• California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)
• Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI)
• Clark University (Worcester, MA)
• Emerson College (Boston, MA)
• Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (New York, NY)
• Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers, FL)
• Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO)
• Goddard College (Plainfield, VT)
• Goucher College (Baltimore, MD)
• Green Mountain College (Poultney, VT)
• Hiram College (Hiram, OH)
• Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA)
• Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
• International Honors Program (Boston, MA)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
• Naropa University (Boulder, CO)
• Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI)
• Ohio University (Athens, OH)
• Parsons The New School for Design (New York, NY)
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
• San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
• San Jose State University (San Jose, CA)
• Seattle University (Seattle, WA)
• Sterling College (Craftsbury Common, VT)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• The Cooper Union (New York, NY)
• The George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
• University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
• University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
• University of Redlands (Redlands, CA)
• University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI)
• Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)
• Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)