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I would strongly recommend Grove City College to people who are looking for a Christian atmosphere, challenging academics, and an involved student body. The majority of the student body lives on campus in the dorms. Intramural sport involvement is reportedly around 70% of the campus, which is phenomenal, if you think about it. It is very easy to get involved in groups on campus if you want to; the college puts on an activities fair at the beginning of the year every year so everyone has a chance to join an organization if they want to.
The town is fairly small. If you're looking for a lot of things to do off campus, you don't really have many options. There is a one-screen movie theater in town, but that's really the only attraction besides restaurants. This means that you have to be creative about how you spend your time. It doesn't mean that there's nothing to do. It's impossible to have nothing to do when you're within half a mile of 2,400 people your age with similar interests. You just have to be inventive instead of just reverting to the old standby of going out on the town.
On the up side, if you have a car or know someone else who does, the Outlets are close by, and there's a Wal-Mart a couple miles away from campus, so you don't have to bring everything with you. Pittsburgh is close-ish; about an hour away from campus. It's nice to go there once in a while, but it's a bit far to go every weekend. | Campus Aesthetics: A+, Surrounding City: D |  | | |
| | Feb 15 2010 | 2nd Year Male --
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| Quite Bright | Grove City is a fabulous college. I learned more in the four years that I spent at Grove City than at any other point in my life. A+ for academic quality - the professors will challenge you to think critically. A+ for social atmosphere, the people there are amazingly friendly. | Starting Job: Physics Teacher, Preparedness: A+, Reputation: A | | |
| | Jan 08 2010 | Alumna Female --
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| Quite Bright |
I think Grove City College is a great school, but not for everyone.
1. It is very difficult. Not crush-your-soul difficult, but you WILL have to work hard and you will have to spend a good amount of time working.
2. There's isn't much to do besides school. The town of Grove City has almost nothing to do, but if you have friends on campus there are always people hanging out, watching TV, playing video games, and finding their own fun.
3. You don't have to be a mindless conservative to go here. I've met plenty of people with different backgrounds and perspectives and people don't "shun" them.
4. The rules HONESTLY aren't that bad, and intervis is no way as bad as people claim. So you have to keep a shoe in the door and can't have sex. What else do you expect from a Christian school? They have standards, but unless you don't follow the (pretty reasonable) rules, you shouldn't feel too stifled.
5. At least in the English department, the professors are great, interesting, and really know their stuff. Just don't let first impressions bias you too negatively. I'm also taking a second major in communication studies, and, although the department isn't quite as good, it's only about ten years old. Comm department also has a wonderful new head who's working on good changes. | Education Quality: A+, Useful Schoolwork: F | | | |
| | Dec 13 2009 | 1st Year Female --
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Honestly, the school just isn't for me. If you are one of the following, you will probably hate your time at GCC: liberal or independent, homosexual, non-christian, of a minority. Unfortunately, I am all but one of these, and because of it am afraid to express myself here. If you didn't know, here are some of the rules: no drinking on campus by ANY student, no premarital sex on or OFF campus (like they could regulate that anyways), no pornography (our RA gave us a talk on porn and sex, which I probably wisely skipped), and no having the opposite gender in your room, except at designated times (and you have to leave the door open). Oh, and here's something that they don't mention before you get here, so listen up: students are NOT allowed to play any multiplayer online games. This ranges from console games to PC games to flash games. I didn't know this, and combined with how boring the campus is, it's hard to find anything to do in my free time.
Conservative Christian viewpoints are treated as shared by the whole student body because that's what the school expects. I spend a lot of my time trying to avoid expressing differing opinions out of fear of retaliation, perhaps even violence. The school houses a Conservative think-tank on the third floor of the administrative building, which will often show politically charged movies which I call 'propaganda' but is accepted by everyone else here.
There is probably a quality education to be had here if you can get past all that, especially in the Computer Science department. I found that we prayed before the beginning of class in all but one of my courses (not including the mandatory gym class). While the physics course often begins by asking students to see "God's thumbprint" on the world, religious explanations for the physical world have thankfully been avoided, and having taken the same material in high school I can say that it is a quality program. Computer science is the only class where there is no mention of religion, and since it is a fundamentals class I find it easy. Calculus is a bit of a mixed bag: I understand the material better than in high school, but the teacher often bumbles through board problems and has to be corrected by students.
The humanities course is where I have some of my main complaints. The class is called 'Civilization', but it is more like 'Why Christianity is right and them A-thee-ists are wrong, hurr'. Every other class, the professor will rant against 'intellectuals' (which usually means professors at secular universities) while making faces and noises that resemble a prodded monkey.
The mandatory gym class is easy. If they didn't take attendance I wouldn't have gone. I didn't study and still got an A and B on the exams by using common sense. Oh, and I learned that apparently your 'spiritual health' is an important part of your wellness.
You're required to go to 16 chapels a semester. Thankfully, many of these are musical events or presentations on mission trips. I only got one where the speaker ranted on "them homosexuals and secularists, arrrgh".
The campus itself is very nice, but there's not much to do here. There's a rec room that's usually empty other than people studying, and a gym that has various nets set up, but unless intermurals are on at that time, it's usually empty. The football team went .500, but lost 3 of 5 home games, and there were more townspeople there than students by a factor of about 10:1. Speaking of the surrounding town, there really isn't one. There is a street lined with stores, but most are for insurance and stuff like that. There is a one screen movie theater and some restaurants, but not much else.
If I didn't have a few good friends online, I would have gone insane here. I'm probably not coming back from spring semester, and will apply to a bigger state school for next fall. However, if you fit in with the GCC mold, you'll probably find a good education here. | Campus Aesthetics: A, Surrounding City: D- | | | |
| | Nov 19 2009 | 1st Year Male --
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