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 | Quite Bright | | The academics at New College are great, period. One of the best things that I have found about NCF is that students have a lot of say in what goes on--we sit on almost every faculty and administrative committee, we can push for faculty lines or areas of concentration that we want, etc. Because of our student-faculty ratio, we become close to our professors--which is so, so awesome. Most of them are very easy to talk to and are highly available to students. New College gives you the chance to really push yourself academically and as a person. The resources are there for people who are looking for them--study abroad, research projects, networking with alumni, working with dolphins, etc. There are only 800 students at New College, which has its advantages and disadvantages. You will be able to recognize almost everyone, and it is relatively easy to make friends here. (You might have to bounce around a bit, but there are people for everyone.) The downside to it being so small is that it's really hard to avoid someone you don't want to see. Romantic relationships at NCF are especially tricky/hilarious. You'll either be part of or see a group of friends who have all dated or hooked up with the same couple of people. It's weird, but it forces you to get over yourself real quick.I used to dislike Sarasota, it's a rich man's St. Pete. But I have come to appreciate its beautiful beaches and weather, as well as the fact that there are many family-owned businesses here. Additionally, the city becomes more fun when you turn 21 in your third year and you can go to the different bars around town. Some of them are pretty awesome. | Faculty Accessibility: A+, Surrounding City: C- | | | |
| | Apr 14 2011 | 4th Year Female --
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| Quite Bright | | As an NC alum, I can tell you I learned more from my fellow students than from the professors. While many of the professors were clearly brilliant, very few of them were interested or capable of holding down tenure track jobs at conventional institutions. This was good for me, as professors were more interested in teaching than publishing (the exact opposite of mainstream academia). Job placement and related services were nonexistent. You were basically on your own from the moment they handed you your diploma, and unless you wanted to go into academia, the prospects were grim (no one outside academic circles seems to know much about NC). The general consensus among NC folk in the 90's was that NC was a relatively safe place for intelligent neurotic types to play until they could no longer avoid interaction with the real world. NC did have a frightening propensity for burn-out; a lot of people I entered with ended up hanging around Sarasota without graduating, working at health food stores (if they could even swing that). NC has a strong gravitational pull that many people find hard to escape; some people get caught up in the NC demimonde and never leave.Other than that, NC is really for anyone. Lots of cliques, it's true, but no more than any comparable school, and if you wanted to be a complete freak and do your own thing, nobody bothered you. If you have problems and you need some place to sort your sh*t out over four years and you don't want to fork out for expensive trustafarian schools in the northeast, you could do far worse than NC. Also, if you're bisexual and passably good looking, you will have a LOT of sex. | Preparedness: F, Reputation: F | | |
| | Feb 05 2011 | Alumnus Male --
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| Quite Bright | No Greek life, zero, so if that's what you wnat, read no further.
I transferred in from another Florida state school, a generic university. I had experience there as well as Comm College experience. Lots of transfers in because 25% of the student body drops out in the first year, they are totally lost. You need to know what you like (and what you don't like) and be an independent thinker. NC is decidedly different. If you know what you want to do or you have a passion for something and you want to investigate it further, then NC might work for you. Nobody is going to tell you what to do or how to achieve that dream, you have to figure it out by yourself. HINT: It helps to look at traditional college catalogs and discover what kind of classes you need to achieve your goals. However, the good part is that you as a student designing your won curriculum have the ability to tailor your curriculum to your own desires. Lots of opportunities to pursue research (travel) and obscure things you can't find at big universities, IF YOU HAVE THE MOTIVATION TO DO SO!!!! Say that you are really good with writing (most people at NC are) but you are also interested in chemistry. You can take more classes in those 2 areas and bypass other classes (like psychology, for example) and write your Senior thesis on "Technical Writing for Chemistry Textbooks" or something like that. Or you want to study orchids and you are also fascinated with hieroglyphics. You can do self-study in hieroglyphics and study botany under Meg Lowman (she's really famous). NC has a lot of pompous blowhards who spout "big words" to sound intellectual but part of the reason is that you are around a bunch of academics and it is like being in France, everybody is speaking the same language. When you go off campus and people start speaking everyday English (and poor grammar) it's a shock, and you start appreciate the NC community. Faculty are the same, a bunch of academics who are lost in their own worlds and really scatterbrained but that's the same everywhere. There are no collegiate athletics there so if you want sports you are on your own, there's fencing and water sports, hiking with friends ,that kind of thing. If you want to go to NC then I suggest you come visit for a weekend and check it out. At first it might rub you the wrong way but it kind of grows on you, there are some normal people here (they look normal and dress normal but let's face it, deep down inside they are a bit odd). If you are a Science person yes the labs are primitive, no better than a good high school (no atom splitters or anything like at MIT or Stanford!) but there is more flexibility in your projects and plenty of lab rats (the human kind) to encourage you. Plus you can work at your own pace on your own projects.Sarasota's okay, lots of old people, not the best nightlife but it has Whole Foods and an okay downtown and the water. HOT, as in heat. I hear that a lot of people who go to NC and then leave come back to Sarasota, they hate it when they go to school here but after going to other places in the US the end up back in Sarasota, so that must say something for the town. | Useful Schoolwork: A, Campus Maintenance: C | | | |
| | Jul 11 2010 | 4th Year Female --
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