Town & Country, the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States, picked Elon in an 11-page feature story on top colleges in the September 2011 issue. The top colleges were recommended to the magazine by counselors at dozens of private high schools across the country.
The Town & Country story focused on Bard College in New York, and chose nine other prestigious colleges and universities, termed “the other Bards,” that have “enough idiosyncratic cachet to lure smart kids away from bigger, name-brand institutions.”
The top up-and-coming colleges picked by the counselors included the following:
- Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.
- Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
- Elon University, Elon, N.C.
- Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
- Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn.
- The New School, New York, N.Y.
- Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.
- Reed College, Portland, Ore.
- Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
The magazine called Elon “the new Wake Forest (University).” Outstanding Elon alumni listed in the story were Rich Blomquist ’00, writer for The Daily Show, and Lisa Goldstein ’03, actress on the television series “One Tree Hill.” The article also noted Elon’s “top-notch” drama program.
Town & Country has a monthly circulation of about 469,000, and is published by the Hearst Corporation.