From America’s Best Kept College Secrets -
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The university itself is something of a surprise – an excellent academic institution which is both affordable and open to students in the normal reaches of scores and grades.
We’ll turn to the university itself in a moment, but the first observation has to be that Oxford, Mississippi is pretty much what a college town should look like, assuming that the college town is set amidst magnolias and historic ante-bellum mansions. Travel and Leisure Magazine recently named Oxford one of the ten “Coolest College Towns,” an honor the town has long deserved; USA Today picks Oxford as one of the top six…”
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Peter Arango has been working in the field of college admissions for forty years, during which time he has counseled hundreds of students and families. He is an editor of the Houghton Mifflin Guide to U.S. Colleges and Universities, a contributor to numerous publications, and a frequent presenter at workshops on preparing for the college search. Currently, Peter Arango lives in Carpinteria, California where he holds the Littlefield Chair in Humanities at Cate School.