Lake Forest College
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Educational Quality | C | Faculty Accessibility | B+ |
Useful Schoolwork | D | Excess Competition | B- |
Academic Success | C | Creativity/ Innovation | D |
Individual Value | B- | University Resource Use | C |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | A | Friendliness | B+ |
Campus Maintenance | A | Social Life | F |
Surrounding City | F | Extra Curriculars | C- |
Safety | A+ | ||
Describes the student body as: Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Helpful, Arrogant, Condescending |
Lowest Rating Social Life | F |
Highest Rating Safety | A+ |
Major: Undecided (This Major's Salary over time)
I graduated from a public high school in the midwest and would be considered middle-class. I went to Lake Forest because of the high amount of financial aid I received, and the impression that it is small and inviting, with a wonderful exciting city like Chicago near by. The only positive thing I have to say about Lake Forest College is that it is a very pretty campus, and I had one professor that I really enjoyed. The rest was unbearable. Unless you are from an extremely wealthy family, went to a private or boarding school, are preppy and can afford the designer labels that will prove this, and do not like to do anything but drink in your dorm room with a few uninteresting people, this school is not for you. This tiny school is unbelievably cliquey, so much so that a friend's sister who was a senior our freshman year, informed us that the table we were sitting at in the tiny lunchroom was in the "loser section." This school was half the size of my high school and I found it to be tremendously suffocating. Most of the people I meet that enjoyed LF were from a very sheltered and privileged background, as this was basically just an extension of boarding school, no where to go and nothing to do. You run into the same snobby, spoiled, cliquey people that are completely superficial and materialistic. They all live on mommy and daddy's money, so they can go shopping around the ridiculously expensive shops around the the town of Lake Forest, which I could not afford so I had nothing to do. There are plenty of over-priced boutiques that close around 6 every night, but absolutely no restaurants or bars or anywhere to drink. It is a miserable place. If you are not who I've described above, and are a normal, middle-class down to earth college student who is looking for a fun environment to learn in, this place is not for you. Might I add the train ride is a hour long, and no one ever goes into Chicago, because it is a two-hour commute and difficult to navigate through the city (plus have to pay for transportation when youre there) and you have no idea where to go and have no where to stay so you better hope you catch the last train back to LF…