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09/12/2004: "Universities and more"

The time has come again, for me to get into uni searching fever. Only this time, its real. Scary enough. Really scary actually. My mother wants me to stay in state, because I have a 5000 dollar scholarship. Well, 20,000, cause it counts for 4 years, but 5000 a year. But, I have a problem. I cant seem to find what I want here. True, its better than LA where I lived before, but still, nothings perfect. This is basically what I want/need in a uni.

a) Affordable, I need it to not cause me a ton of debt, small loans are ok, but I cant take a 30k uni as it is here.
b) Wide range of fields. Im not sure what I want to do, but I know I want something to do with german. Nothing beyond that.
c) No frats or sororities, if it can be helped. I can live with it, but I dont want a party school. Please please no party schools.
d) No 'freshman centers', the last thing I want is to be holed up in a commons with 7 other freshman, doing god knows what. Give me a private room, heck, ill even share a room if it means I live around people other than freshman.
e) I want to go to university for an education, not religion. If a school requires church attendance, im not going. (Yes, I found a school today that required that)

Yes, its HARD to find a school like that. And I know I probably wont, not in the US anyway. And im not looking for perfection, some of those qualities rank higher than the other. Residence is one of the highest. Im not a big people person, I dont want to live with people my age, who I generally dislike. But, the more the qualities in the school, the better. The best Ive found so far...Francis Marion Univeristy (not very prestigious, known party school), USC (horrid residence, frats...god help me), University of Ottawa (perfect program, but no International aid, so thats exed), York (not much chance at scholarships, about 1 in 50 in fact) and...that about sums it up.

I wanted to go to winthrop, but its to narrow...only eduacation, preprofessional, and few majors...so no go. See my delima?

Anyway, my father left today for a business trip. For four months. Hes stranded in dc. Going to heathrow tonight, maybe he can get to the rest of europe before tomorrow. Who knows. Anyway, im going to bed. Night folks.

PS: Im open to suggestions to uni, anywhere except australia.