Can anybody suggest some colleges for me?

Question

I want to be an anesthesiologist.

I like to party but I'm not the "go-out-every-single-night-and-come-home... type.

I want a school with a religious affiliation that you can feel on campus (doesn't have to overwhelm the campus though)

I live just above Cincinnati, Ohio and don't want to travel more than 3 hours for college.

I want a small-medium campus.

I like watching/going to sports games.

I was raised and have lived all my life in a small, boring town and I'd say I'm excellant at making my own fun. Therefore, I don't mind a college in/surrounded by a boring town.

I lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove... the cold, snowy weather and I cope very well with rain. I can't take much heat. The temp. hits 80 and I'm complaining all day about it.

That's about all my specifications.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Anesthesiologists are medical doctors, so that's down the road four years for you.  Focus on colleges that will prepare you for med school.  If you want real winter, you obviously won't be going south of Cincinnatti.  We'll look north.  Small colleges don't have big sports teams, but maybe there can be one nearby.  Small schools can and do have their own teams, of course.  Here's my list for you...

Earlham College in Richmond, IN.  Started by the Quakers, but it's not oppressive.  Probably the most religious of the schools I'll list.

http://www.earlham.edu/

College of Wooster, in Wooster OH.  (If I had college to do over, this school would be near the top of my list.)

http://www.wooster.edu/

Hiram College in Hiram, OH

http://www.hiram.edu

Denison University in Granville, OH.  An incredibly beautiful campus.  Just look at this web page...

http://www.denison.edu/

Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH.  Associated with the Methodist church.  

http://www.owu.edu/

Allegheny College in Meadville, PA

http://www.allegheny.edu/

Any of these schools would work for you.  Try to visit them all.  

Answer 2

Try looking at Boston College. It has a Roman Catholic affiliation and it is a medium sized school. Its in Chestnut Hill (which is in Boston) so boring will not be an option, unfortunately. If you love the cold, the Boston is where its at. We have negative degrees in winter. Feet upon feet of snow (in a good season). We even have freak snow storms in April. Right now its August and its only about 70 degrees. The hottest it has been was 100 degrees in early July and that only lasted a couple days. (It was a heat wave.) In the fall, you get to see leaves change which I guess outsiders really like. Spring time is nothing special, just lots of rain. But it never gets very hot. BC has great sports teams and its BOSTON. We have the Celtics, the Red Sox and the PATS! We have the best teams in the US, if I do say so myself.  and its not a party school, but in Boston, you are never short of things to do. I believe they have your major but I'm not sure and I think its farther than three hours away, but its a great school that you should consider looking up. Good Luck!

Answer 3

To become an anesthesiologist you will need a four year B.A or B,S including all required premedical courses, four years of medical school, a four year residency in your specialty and perhaps an additional three year fellowship to become board certified (a very good idea in that field).

Three excellent smallish schools in Ohio are Miami of Ohio, Ohio University, and Ohio Wesleyan. Only the latter has a religious affiliation (methodist). But the other two certainly have a full menu of religious organizations and if you want you can have a rich religious life while going to one of the two public universities I mentioned.

Although I would not wish to dissuade you from going to a college with a religious affiliation, I would urge you to consider seriously why you have limited your options in this way.

Only a very few universities today are overwhelmed by secular values and anti-religious attitudes; because most large universities are places where people can easily get lost, people sharing common values tend to find one another and make comfortable homes. Your experience and your college community can be modulated to be as religious or secular as you wish.

Given your medical ambitions, the most important thing you can find in a college is a rich set of opportunities to study medically related topics, to share in research projects, to meet many other pre-med students, to study with them and share information about med school exams and applications, etc.

You don't have to go to Ohio State or University of Cincinatti to get this kind of experience, but you need to go a university with serious research professors. Think carefully about this.