If you are "spring breaking" somewhere, I would encourage you to check out a range of colleges in that particular area. Here are some recommendations:
Rocky Mountain
Colorado: CU-Boulder and CU-Colorado Springs, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State U., Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Western State College, U. of Denver, Colorado College, Regis University
Pacific Northwest
Washington: U. of Puget Sound, Whitman, Whitworth, Evergreen State, and U of Washington
Oregon: Lewis & Clark, Willamette, Reed, U. of Oregon, and Oregon State
California: Stanford, Santa Clara, U. of San Francisco, Claremont Colleges, Whittier, Occidental, Loyola Marymount, Univ. of San Diego, U. of Southern California, U. of California system (esp. Berkeley, Santa Barbara, LA, & Santa Cruz), St. Mary’s, Redlands.
Southwest
U. of Arizona, Arizona State, U. of Northern Arizona, U. of New Mexico, New Mexico State, College of Santa Fe, St. John’s College
Texas & Louisiana: U. of Texas – Austin, Trinity, Southern Methodist, Rice, Texas Christian, Austin College, Southwester, Loyola, Baylor, Tulane, Xavier (HBCU*), Dillard (HBCU*)
Northern Midwest
Montana: U. of Montana, Montana State
Minnesota: Carleton, Macalester, and St. Olaf
Wisconsin: U. of Wisconsin, Ripon, St. Lawrence University, and Beloit
Michigan: U. of Michigan, Michigan State, Hope, Kalamazoo
Midwest
Illinois: U. of Chicago, Northwestern, Lake Forest, Knox, Loyola, U of Illinois (Champagne)
Iowa: Cornell College, Grinnell, and Coe College
Nebraska: Creighton University, University of Nebraska
Ohio: Kenyon, Oberlin, Denison, Wittenberg, Xavier, Ohio Wesleyan, College of Wooster, Miami (Oxford), Hiram, Case Western
Indiana: Indiana U., Notre Dame, DePauw, Earlham, Butler, and U of Evansville
Missouri: Washington U., St. Louis U., U. of Missouri – Columbia, Westminster, William and Jewell
Kansas: U. of Kansas, Kansas State, Southwestern, University of Kansas City-Missouri
Mid-Atlantic:
Pennsylvania: Bucknell U., Franklin and Marshall, Dickinson, Gettysburg, Bryn Mawr (women), Haverford, Villanova, Lafayette, Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, U. of Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Drexel
New York: Colgate, Hamilton, Hobart & William Smith, Cornell, Rochester, Ithaca College, Union, Skidmore, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, New York U., Columbia, Fordham, Bard, Barnard (women), City College
New Jersey: Princeton, Drew
Maryland: Johns Hopkins, Washington College, Goucher , and U of Maryland
Washington, DC: Georgetown, George Washington, American, Howard (HBCU*)
Northern New England
New Hampshire: Dartmouth, U. of New Hampshire, Keene State College, Colby Sawyer College
Vermont: U. of Vermont, Middlebury
Maine: Colby, Bates, Bowdoin
Southern New England
Boston Area: Boston College, Boston U., Tufts, Brandeis, Babson, Bentley, Emerson, Simmons (women), Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wheaton, Wellesley (women), Northeastern
Western Massachusetts: Amherst, Hampshire, Williams, Smith (women), Clark, Holy Cross, Worcester Polytechnic
Connecticut: Trinity, Yale, Connecticut College, Fairfield University, U. Conn
Rhode Island: Brown, Rhode Island School of Design, Salve Regina, Roger Williams, U. of Rhode Island, Providence College, Bryant.
Southeast
Alabama: Auburn University, Alabama, Samford
Georgia: Emory, Spelman (HBCU*, women), Morehouse (HBCU*, men), Georgia Tech, UGA
Kentucky: Centre College
Tennessee: Vanderbilt, Belmont, U. of the South (Sewanee), Rhodes, U. of Tennessee
North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest, Davidson, Guilford, Elon, UNC-Asheville
South Carolina: College of Charleston, U. of South Carolina, Furman, Wofford, Clemson, Presbyterian.
Virginia: U. of Virginia, Richmond, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Hampden-Sydney (men), Randolph, Washington & Lee, William & Mary, Mary Washington, Hampton (HBCU*), Virginia Tech, Shenandoah
Florida: U. of Miami, Rollins, Eckerd, Flagler , U. of Florida, Florida State
*HBCU= Historically Black Colleges and Universities
