Snow College

I love how small it is. My high school was three or four thousand students and Snow College is only about five thousand students, so it really wasn't that much bigger. So it was super fun to, you know, be able to know so many people on campus. If you needed a resource and you didn't know where to look, chances are the next person you talked to would have a pretty good idea of where to look. Counselors are pretty much always open. They're kind of on a rotational schedule, so whoever's open, whenever you're open, you just kind of meet with them rather than just sticking with one, which I also found super helpful because then you get different people's opinions and they all kind of knew what they were doing, so that was awesome.

There are so many pros to Snow College. I love Snow College. I will always praise its name because I had some of the best years of my life there as a music major. I made some of the best friends I've ever had. Whenever anyone is wondering where they should go to school or thinking about going to college, I always, always suggest Snow College because it's just small and personal. I mean Ephraim is so beautiful and I love it there. It's such an amazing place to just build friendships and close friendships that will last and to be able to learn so much on a personal level from your professors like in a college setting is really special and so I think so Snow is just a really special place.

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is a really important publication for all of higher ed, Snow College was ranked number one in the nation for student success. One of the pros of Snow College is that it's smaller. If you go to a four-year school for your freshman, your sophomore years, you'll be in huge classes. I mean, you'll definitely make friends and you'll find your place and you'll love it. But at Snow, you can have more personal attention. Like if you're in the arts, you're cast. You get to be the performer, whereas other schools you have to wait till you're an upperclassman. You get to get involved faster. And it's smaller, so it's easier to get to know people. It's easier to be known.

The biggest pro for SNOW for me was the fact that it is such a small college in such a small town. So because of that I was able to get a lot more one-on-one time and extra help from the professors if I was struggling, which was not something I was ever able to do once I left to go to a larger university because every single class had over 30 to 40 students, whereas SNOW classes were a lot smaller than that.

There are so many pros to Snow College, its size, its culture, but thinking in long term, the biggest pro for Snow College, for me personally, was how well prepared I was when I transferred to university. I found myself ahead of a lot of the students who had begun at that university as freshmen. I was able to dive right in, begin contributing at the highest levels in the department, received department scholarships at the university level. I just felt like Snow really prepared me for success. And in fact, I went back and taught at Snow for several years and was always impressed by how this small school demanded high quality academic performance of its students.

I think the biggest one is finance by a landslide. I actually went to a few different schools. I went to UVU and then Utah State after Snow College. And at Snow College, housing and tuition combined is cheaper than tuition alone at any of those universities. So I think if you don't have a full-ride scholarship, Snow College is easily the best place. Also, smaller classroom sizes. Most of the classroom sizes were about the size of a high school class when I was going there. And so if you're someone like me that likes more one-on-one time with a professor, then that's a good aspect about Snow College as well. Great college.