The Hollis Field Station
340 acres of working forest and wetland twenty minutes from campus, used year-round by environmental studies, biology, and studio art.
Learn more →Founded 1874 · Alderbrook, Vermont
Fifteen hundred acres of Vermont, an average class of fourteen, and a senior project every student defends in public. Come see whether it fits.
Eight questions with an admissions officer. Takes about ten minutes.
340 acres of working forest and wetland twenty minutes from campus, used year-round by environmental studies, biology, and studio art.
Learn more →Every senior spends the year on an original project and defends it publicly in the spring. There is no way to graduate quietly.
Learn more →Seniors run from the Quad to the chapel and ring the bell the night before their project defense. It has happened every year since 1919.
Learn more →A residential liberal arts college in the Green Mountains, built around close faculty contact, fieldwork, and a required senior project every student defends in public.
Explore all programs →“I came for the field station and stayed because a professor learned my name in the first week and never let me coast again.”
“The senior project terrified me for three years. Defending it in front of a room was the proudest hour of my life.”
Senior Admissions Officer · Nineteen years at Calderwood
Margo works with families across the Northeast and sits down with every student who visits. She has a few minutes between tours.
Talk to MargoHollis Field Station expands winter research access
Three seniors present at the New England Ecology Forum
Ravens nordic team takes second at the Green Mountain Invitational