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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Bryn Mawr is a wonderful school, but there is definitely a type of person who would love it here. The course load is very heavy, especially with your freshman seminar, but there is not much mindless busywork. You are able to take classes at Haverford, but I feel like the bi-co is a bit biased against bryn mawr girls since the ratio of guys to girls is thrown off by it (about 4 girls:1 guy.) If you are interested in getting a wonderful education and meeting nice wonderful women then by all means, Bryn Mawr is the perfect place. If you are looking for parties every weekend, guys, or easy classes, you wont find it here. Haverford college is really close by and transportation is provided (a blue bus) so you can take classes there and go party there, but there are not very many guys (at all) and the parties arent that fun. Everyone is really really nice (really!) and all the stereo-types of the "weird" girls here isnt really true, there are plenty of "normal" girls here. One great thing about bryn mawr, is that there are so many different types of people that you're bound to find people you fit in with. People here are also really accepting. If you want the "normal" college experience though, DO NOT COME HERE. You will gain a different experience, but it wont be parties and frats and guys and alcohol all over the place. As a whole, everyone here is super nice, super friendly, and super smart. Individual Value: A+, Social Life: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 17 2009 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=62371&uid=1145'></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   Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Bryn Mawr is not for everyone. It takes a very strong person to withstand the extreme academic pressure, social weirdness, semi-isolation and generally close feeling of this school. However, all of that is only a first impression. The academic pressure can be defused simply by figuring out what matters most to you and relaxing about everything else. The social weirdness can seem stifling unless you reach out to people who seem like they could be cool. (and pretty much everyone has some cool in them) The semi-isolation can be cured by hopping the commuter train into Philadelphia--in less than 20 minutes you are in the middle of the city. The close feeling, well, it is a very small school, which you can choose to experience either as claustrophobic or supportive. It is really up to you. Oh, and you have to look for the men; they are there, but they won't find you on their own. But after all of this, I can promise you that once you emerge, you will be a Bryn Mawr Woman and ready to handle anything that comes at you. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Social Life: C Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 19 2009 4th Year Female -- Class 1983    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=60799&uid=1145'></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   Language - French/Spanish/etc.  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I was always a good in h.s. with very little effort, with a B to B+ GPA. I was shocked that I got into BMC. When I got there I was dumbfounded at the amount of work it took just to stay afloat--it was a total paradigm shift in how to work and what to study. I worked SO hard and learned how to be uncompromising with myself--I had high standards already but had to push them to be sky-high. Ultimately it was very good for me because it trained me to have high standards for everything related to what I did, and that led to great career success and a reputation for uncompromising excellence. It also led to me overthinking things a lot. It wasn't until I was out for about 10 years that I realized I could relax the standards, not work so hard and still be WAY better than everyone around me. It took me too long to learn that and I wasted a lot of time acting as if I was still being graded. Everyone's BMC experience is different, depending on their major, when they went there and what kind of background they have. I think that as students approach their senior year at BMC they should start to break away from the insular environment, do more in the community or in Philadelphia and in general coast back down to earth. I loved BMC but students should realize that it is not the real world. It is much, much harder than the real world and people at BMC are much more tolerant of quirkiness than they are in the real world. At BMC you are both coddled and slave-driven at the same time--coddled socially and slave-driven academically. The sooner students learn that and arrange their lives to adjust the balance to something more healthy, the better off they will be in the long run. High school students should understand what they are getting themselves into. BMC is the ideal place to express yourself, especially if you felt out of the mainstream in high school, because nobody will judge you. Be as brilliant as you want to be. They will welcome eccentricity--wear those capes, play the strange music (the more obscure, the better), read poetry out loud at midnight. But know that there are few men around outside of your profs and unless you work at it, little opportunity to meet men. There were plenty of men in the heyday of bi-college cooperation with Haverford, back in my day (the early '80s were the height). Since Haverford went co-ed BMC is academically and socially isolated. Know this, love this, and you will do just fine there. Starting Job: Assistant to the Director, Preparedness: B-, Reputation: C- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Dec 13 2008 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='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=56298&uid=1145'></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   English  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright The Philadelphia gentry used to dump their weirdo daughters here and the tradition continues. Trying to outdo the boys schools makes it a pressure-cooker of academic busy work and apparent achievement. Haverford and Swarthmore where you can take classes are full of the worst sort of dorks on the planet, the boys there are more feminine than the girls of Bryn Mawr. Cheaper to run than a mental institution of a similar size. Still trying to prove itself and still full of manhaters. If you are normal this is not the place for you. Scholastic Success: A, Collaboration/Competitive: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 08 2008 4th Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=51782&uid=1145'></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  4  5  6  7 ... 14    Next

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