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Ski colleges

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wheres_my_snow
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wheres the best place to go if i have good grades in high school and i want to ski ALLOT in college like allot allot, all the time allot
Jan 13 2009 9:39PM
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Jamestown
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boulder, or maybe dartmouth if your grades are that good
Jan 13 2009 9:42PM
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mokeefe257
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yeah boulder or like utah
Jan 13 2009 9:47PM
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highflyer21
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UVM and St Mikes are both in burlington.
Jan 13 2009 9:48PM
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-Dan
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I applied to Middlebury College and UVM. Both good schools in vermont, less than an hour away from any place you would want to shred.  Are you a senior this year or just planning ahead.
Jan 13 2009 9:51PM
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wheres_my_snow
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sorta planing ahead i am east coast and i realy want to head west
Jan 13 2009 10:00PM
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-Dan
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Ah, I can't help you with the west. I'm east coast and I'm sticking around for college.
Jan 13 2009 10:04PM
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Sir_SkrillALot
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UTAH! Im sure a bunch of kids have had there eye on it for awhile now, but If you get alright grades in highschool with a good SAT ACT score you can get some damn fine scholarships. Also its close to powder, and the peeps are for the most part chill, (the place seems kinda dull at first but Im guessing thats only to people who dont really know it as well)
Jan 13 2009 10:04PM
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SHastatahoe
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If you want to ski all the time, don't go to college.  get a night job washing dishes in jackson hole and ski every day, all day, on the sickest shit.
Jan 13 2009 10:06PM
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dmc12380
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st. mikes is not in burlington. they advertise that they are but there really not. its a good drive to it
Jan 13 2009 10:07PM
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East.
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anywhere in the SLC area from what I've been told.. Boulder (also from what I've been told) is a bit of a longer drive for sick skiing.
Jan 13 2009 10:19PM
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hiphopopotamus
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i dont get why everybody always says boulder yes its a good school and yes the resorts near by are some of the best in the world but its 2 hours away and this means you go on the weekend which means the whole front range is going with you. maybe i am jsut ranting because i have lived here for 15 years and getting sick of it but a real ski college would be:
Western State: 20 min from crusty butt
U of U: 40 min from everything
U of British colombia: 1 hr from whistler ?

or colrado moutain college of steamboat o wait not a real college
Jan 13 2009 10:19PM
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BskiP
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university of utah, which is 20 to 40 mins from big and little cottonwood and the canyons and park city.  Utah valley university is 45 mins to an hour from the resorts, but absolutely anyone that applies there gets accepted. its nice.
Jan 13 2009 10:22PM
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BigM1218
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I've been looking for good ski colleges too, but I wanna stay on the east. So I was thinking UVM or UNH. Is UNH close to anything real good? I havn't skiied NH before, just VM but I'm really liking the look of UNH, which would be better as far as skiing goes?
Jan 13 2009 10:25PM
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rippinbumpskier
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Plymouth State is good if you want to be able to ski within a 30 minute drive. Great partying as well. If you apply yourself you can get a great education here
Jan 13 2009 10:50PM
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WeK
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Depends what you mean on good grades. U of British Colombia is one of the best colleges in the world, ~2hours from whistler, and local skiing up there kicks ass compared to most of the east, that and it's a lot cheaper than US schools
Jan 13 2009 10:57PM
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mmmmm...Pie
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Michigan Tech. Average 200" of snow a year (176.5" so far this year with 35" on the ground), great engineering school, skiing at Mt. Ripley (<5 minutes from campus) included in tuition, and Mt. Bohemia is only 45 minutes away (backcountry powder skiing, $99 for a season pass). You can easily ski every day of the week without interfering with school at all. I love it here!
Jan 13 2009 11:03PM
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C-Burg
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i go to a school that is a good school close to skiing but i'm not going to mention if b/c of the massive amount of hate i would get
Jan 13 2009 11:28PM
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SEABURN
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i ski four days a week and i amlost always geta pow day a week, i love it.....come to WWU
Jan 13 2009 11:32PM
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jensen
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i don't believe you have good grades spelling a lot like that
Jan 13 2009 11:37PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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what kind of grades does it take to get in thier?
Jan 13 2009 11:38PM
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Rooddss
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its like 3 miles...lol
Jan 13 2009 11:49PM
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SEABURN
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i had a 3.3 with 1650 on SAT
Jan 13 2009 11:54PM
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skibikeclambake
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you must go to mines. i really wish i couldve done better in school to get in there

Jan 13 2009 11:54PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Whats out of state tuition..Were talking bout western whasington right
Jan 14 2009 12:07AM
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sstricky
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ive got a 2080 on my sat with like a 3.8 and 6APs so i ahve good grades and whatnot...
i wanna go to boulder engineerign school but i mean its too far away, think i could make it into UBC??
if not then UVM is prolly top choice.
Jan 14 2009 12:11AM
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titsLOL
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OR go to school in utah so you can get a degree while skiing 5 days a week easily, while being able to sleep at night instead of wash dishes. Hell if you are a business major you could pretty easily take all night classes after freshman year and ski every day of the week if you really want to.
Jan 14 2009 12:13AM
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ben_southworth
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so im a senior in high school right now, i got excellent grades (claim?) and test scores, so i've been through the same search man

i've narrowed it down to the following, in no particular order
Middlebury (1st choice)
Dartmouth
CC
CO Mines
Lewis and Clark

all good good choices, so there's some ideas
Jan 14 2009 12:17AM
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mtvtut
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its like a 5 minute drive from st mikes to burlington. so your wrong

but utah is fucking legit. so close to alot of mountains. if you like park the canyons and park city are real close. if you like pow. alta snowbird brighton pow mountain
Jan 14 2009 12:24AM
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-Dan
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Middlebury is my top choice too. You should apply to UVM as a safety school at least. Actually, lol, thats bad advice considering the deadline is the 15th. Unless you used common app...
Jan 14 2009 12:24AM
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[D-Lite]
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Slc For sure...i live there and the skiing is soo close 6 to 7 resorts from 30-45 minutes away.. and theres alot more to the city than you think you just need to meet chill people..
Jan 14 2009 3:58AM
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highflyer21
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haha yeah i didnt think it was too far from burlington. but its still not far from vermont's best skiing
Jan 14 2009 8:00AM
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LMC
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I go to SUNY Plattsburgh which is 40 mins from whiteface and a hour and half from jay peak which is pretty sweet
Jan 14 2009 9:41AM
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Hack.The.Pow.
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You gotta go to UVM! I don't think I know one person on my floor who doesn't ski. Also a Jay peak, Bolton, and Mad river Glen season pass(all of them) is only 270. You can't beat that
Jan 14 2009 11:51AM
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kayjaybeee
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Plymouth state. i go there and i ski like 4-5 times a week, loon and waterville are both about 20 minutes away, cannon, cranmore and bretton woods are wicked close too
Jan 14 2009 11:59AM
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C.R.E.A.M
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U of U, such a sick school to ski. i got alot of friends from HS that go there and love it.
Jan 14 2009 12:05PM
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SEABURN
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out of state is around 15k a quarter not including help from FAFSA
Jan 14 2009 12:17PM
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Z_rob
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I was considering Utah as well.

whats like the requirements to get it and tuition and stuff?
Jan 14 2009 1:38PM
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SICKYGNARGNAR
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Boulder is good because you are less than 1.5 hours away from good skiing (esp if you ski Berthoud and Loveland).

You can easily ski 150 days a season out of boulder, but you gotta have ALOT of gas money.

Go to western state, but your degree pretty much means nothing from there whereas a degree from CU (which is a top 50 uni in the world) actually means something to people outside of gunni.
Jan 14 2009 2:07PM
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*208*shill
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University of Utah or west minister both locatedd in slc and close to some of the best resorts in the world pc snowbird alta brighton....
Jan 14 2009 2:51PM
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RobotTom
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UVM is a good school and bolton is half an hour away and has a good park+night skiing for the weekdays after class and sugarbush, jay, stowe, and mad river are all around an hour away with busses running on weekends. Even though you wanna go west coast it wouldn't be a bad idea to consider it.
Jan 14 2009 3:38PM
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wheres_my_snow
Posts: 473 - Karma: 11
yea bro i have a difitionsy or whatever and its hard as shit for me so back of im still a+

Jan 14 2009 4:15PM
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Broha-X-Press
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if your looking east, i'm at lyndon state in the ski resrot management program.  10 min from burke, 45 from jay, 45 from loon, 1hr 45 from sunday river, hour from stowe...i could go on lol.  College passes are cheap as well

Jan 14 2009 4:19PM
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Broha-X-Press
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sorry i can't help with west coast :/
Jan 14 2009 4:25PM
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skibikeclambake
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what do you think of that program. i got in for that
Jan 14 2009 4:30PM
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VTtreeskier
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Yeah i know what your saying, the drive on 70 is a pain its my second year here and im starting to get sick of it, but as an east coaster i always feel its well worth the drive and if you can get days of during the week its great to avoid the crowd. I think CU is known as a ski college because boulder does have a really great ski scene, so many kids here are great passionate skiers. But there are alot of colleges that are closer to mountains and make it easier to ski.
Jan 14 2009 4:33PM
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doritos
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University of Vermont.
Jan 14 2009 4:45PM
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Broha-X-Press
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i think it's a good program.  Lots of fun so far (i'm a freshman).  If you have any specific questions just message me, or email whichever. I'll be glad to answer questions

Jan 14 2009 5:18PM
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Bo_bot9
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its really less than ten minutes to go from down tow burlington to St. Mikes.

st.micheals is a fairly small school though. kind of run down also. but still great for skiing

Jan 14 2009 5:23PM
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doritos
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Ten minutes if you have a car, if not you're fucked. Bus is twenty minutes at least, if not more... I don't live there but it takes me fifteen minutes from the roundabout so it has to be a fair amount of time. Walking would be almost out of the question unless it's a nice day and you have a huge chunk of time on your hands. I don't know much about St. Mike's, but UVM is the bee's knees.
Jan 14 2009 6:23PM
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hellomynameisjef
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i toured the campus on my way to keystone last year, its fucking sick, like 2 hours away from abasin, heavenly, keystone, breck, vail, beaver creek. so sick
Jan 14 2009 6:26PM
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