The Hot Schools Of 2004

Georgia State and Florida A&M are also minority-friendly and Southern; Occidental students also apply to UCLA and USC.

MOST HAPPY

Goucher College, Baltimore

Goucher rightly calls itself "a small college with a big view of the world." Through a network of Baltimore-area colleges, Goucher's 1,250 students can take one class a semester at any of seven other campuses--including Johns Hopkins. Goucher also boasts a student-teacher ratio of just 10 to 1. Most professors give out their home numbers, says John Olszewski Jr., senior class president. And for an urban campus, Goucher is unusually bucolic.

Goucher students also apply to Vassar and Skidmore.

MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED