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Message: [QUOTE="GotNets?, post: 4279022, member: 8131"] Went to a very similar liberal arts college and this is my take: - Talk to current students and alumni to identify the very best and most memorable professors. There’s many good professors at a place like CC but what makes these places unique is finding a superstar that you can learn from 24/7… If she’s into creative writing then maybe look at Kenyon, but I’m sure there’s a few that are just incredible in their field. If she’s wants to study in that field - check. - Make sure the social scene is going to be a fit. At CC there’s going to be a lot of granola types, super woke revolutionaries from NYC, interesting international students, and preppy kids with nose candy. There’s not a lot of off campus housing so parties are small and sometimes exclusive and hard. It’s different than a free for all house party. By the time she’s a senior, kids you’ve never met will know about your marriage. Your concern about the size of the school is fair after a huge HS. You want to make sure that there’s a good fit socially. - Try to figure out how selective internship opportunities get shared. Does the school have a group of favorites that get first crack at the coolest stuff? Do you have to network yourself to open doors? How does their alumni directory work? Do they have stipends for unpaid internships? How much emphasis is there on interning as a freshman, etc. - How much work do you actually do on a weekly basis. My friends at Davidson worked hard all the time, every day, and my friends at Bates coasted. If she wants to go preprofessional it might be better to go somewhere with healthy grade inflation. My school used a curve for all classes in your major until 400 levels. That’s hard to stomach for someone that wants to study history and gets hit with graduate level work. - Does she need to hold a job? Will she have a car on campus? What are the food options? How supportive and accessible is the administration? What’s the endowment like per head? If she needed , like help grant writing for a charity project, how easy is it to get that help? All fair kinds of questions… Vassar takes a very different approach to Bowdoin so I wouldn’t buy into talk of how prestigious one school is versus another. That’s all nonsense. The schools will have many points of differentiation when you look. And they tend to attract different people. One of my good friends went to CC… she was a WASP from Westchester who partied hard and studied art history while reading fiction for fun on her nights off. She worked for a non profit after school and then got an MBA at Yale and now she’s a ECM banker. Many of her closest friends are from CC…… and like her, they’re sensational. you will get very close with your classmates, that’s for sure. TMI but hope there’s a helpful nugget or two. [/QUOTE]

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