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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Education  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Calvin does a great job of sticking to its mission statement, and the more you know about it before you come, the more you'll find it to be a good fit. With study abroad semesters around the globe and tons of different majors, there really are a lot of opportunities. West Michigan and Grand Rapids can be a little sheltered at times (especially students who come to Calvin from the Grand Rapids area) but if people want to be challenged to live out what they believe and think about all things critically, Calvin is a great place. Collaboration/Competitive: A+, Useful Schoolwork: B- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 09 2008 4th Year Male -- Class 2001    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=43344&uid=668'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Psychology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Calvin prepared me academically. I knew as much or more about clinical psychology as my classmates in graduate school. More importantly, CC taught me how to think critically and how to express myself well, especially in written form. My only concern about CC was that my research skills were not as well developed as those of my classmates who came from a large university. Therefore, if you go to CC and are interested in an academic career, I advise you to seek out research experiences early and often during your college years. Starting Job: Asst Professor, Preparedness: B+, Reputation: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Feb 14 2007 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=35856&uid=668'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I went to another college first, because the cost of Calvin seemed prohibitive. That was a mistake. I should have just gone straight to Calvin instead of wasting years at another college. The Calvin education was totally worth it. The very little negative I experience is just petty stuff, like occasionally the caf food wasn't the greatest. As a whole, my Calvin experience was excellent and it prepared me well to be a science teacher. Starting Job: teacher, Preparedness: A+, Reputation: A Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Sep 28 2006 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=23871&uid=668'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Psychology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant Calvin is the ultimate Christian college. It’s large size allows it to have most majors, bring in great bands and speakers, and keep the place from feeling like a high school gossip mill. It is quite liberal for a Christian college, allowing students to smoke on-campus and drink off-campus (as long as you don’t live in the dorms). Despite certain restrictions on dorm life, Calvin’s environment is accepting of a wide variety of political, moral, and spiritual beliefs and lifestyles. The extra opportunities due to its large size and the open atmosphere create a great environment for exploration and growth. Odds are you will find your own niche and friends to challenge and support you. Despite all the complaints about the lack of ethnic diversity, I think Calvin has more diversity than most other schools because of its openness, which produces a much more balanced mix of conservative Christian kids and wild liberal partiers than you’d find at other Christian or secular schools. In my opinion, the people are generally friendlier and more superficial than my friends from high school and at other colleges. This is probably in part because I come from a large city and over half of Calvin’s students are from West Michigan. Many of them went to the same Christian schools and have known/dated each other since high school, which results in plenty of cliques. The out-of-state students tend to be much more interesting/cynical, so the two types of student somewhat balance each other. Except for concerts and the outdoors, there’s not much to do either on-campus or off. A lot of people just sit around and hang out. The academics are generally good and depend largely on which major you choose. Communications and sociology are arguably the weakest/easiest and the hardest are music, religion, and the sciences and engineering. The other humanities and social sciences are generally good with a mix of hard and easy classes. The work will seem difficult if you pick a hard major or are a typical Christian high school grad who’s not an idiot but certainly not destined for grad school. The work will seem easy (or manageable in the case of the sciences) if you were near the top of your class in high school, did well in several AP classes, or have any other indicator of past academic success. The Christian element is always present but never stifling. I get the impression that the professors are far more religious than the students and do more to keep Calvin a Christian college than the students, many of whom never go to chapel and seldom go to church. The norm for a class is for the professor to pray once a week and occasionally relate the material to Christianity. The Christian presence is most obvious in the humanities, least in the sciences, and the way I described in the last sentence in the social sciences. Most of the public pontificating on Christianity is a rehash of neo-Kuyperian mantras that the most famous talking heads on campus like to recite at every opportunity to remind us of what they want our common vision to be. “Go redeem your corner of creation” pretty much sums it up. The college will take you as far as you take yourself. There are plenty of opportunities to do research or internships both on-campus and off if you look for them. Pretty much everything depends on how much initiative and intelligence you have to navigate coursework, professors, and finding interesting resume-building experiences. The college admits anyone, and this produces a less cutthroat atmosphere but also leads to dumbing down some classes and majors. But even if your passion lies in an easy major like communications, there are plenty of opportunities in and out of class to make yourself stand out. According to the Franklin and Marshall report on Baccalaureate Origins of Doctoral Recipients, more students go on to grad school from Calvin than from any other college of our size. Every year Calvin sends plenty of students to places like Yale and Wayne State and which one is up to you. Collaboration/Competitive: A+, Social Life: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 23 2005 2nd Year Male -- Class 2006    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=17871&uid=668'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3    Next

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