Vassar College
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Educational Quality | B+ | Faculty Accessibility | A+ |
Useful Schoolwork | A+ | Excess Competition | B+ |
Academic Success | B+ | Creativity/ Innovation | B |
Individual Value | A | University Resource Use | B- |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | A+ | Friendliness | A- |
Campus Maintenance | A- | Social Life | C |
Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | C+ |
Safety | B | ||
Describes the student body as: Friendly, Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Helpful |
Lowest Rating Surrounding City | F |
Highest Rating Faculty Accessibility | A+ |
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
Few people on this board have said anything that isn't true: the college is quite liberal, quite insular, quite beautiful, and quite good, academically speaking. As a somewhat religious and politically conservative person, I can tell you that the student body can be quite homogenous and exclusionary; groupthink abounds, and its not uncommon to find people who beleive that a good education and a left-bias are completely inseperable. Despite how lonely it can get sometimes, I know I'm still getting a top notch education from some of the leaders in their fields. The faculty are accessible, no doubt. But the social life here is extremely deficient, clique-y, and consists mostly of drinking to excess with one group or another. This is not just by "religious conservative guy"'s standards, as most people here would agree. I couldn't tell you whether I'd come here again if given the chance, because I'm not sure if the education I'm getting is worth the grief of a small, clique-y, intellectually incestuous college. I think it is a testament to the education that I am getting that I still don't know after almost two years, however. Anyone considering this school needs to think long and hard about how much they want to fit in, and what balance they want to strike between social life and academics. I wish I had.