Tell me about Goucher

[Anonymous]

Pros, cons? What kind of students attend? Good reputation among grad schools?

[Anonymous]

Its endowment is higher than I thought at roughly $300 million. But its graduation rate stinks: less than 60%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its endowment is higher than I thought at roughly $300 million. But its graduation rate stinks: less than 60%.

Wow, that's pretty bad. Why do you think that is?

[Anonymous]

The school itself is beautiful. Other than that, I don’t know much. It’s a small liberal arts school similar to many others.

[Anonymous]

Go visit. We did and it was odd. I’m not sure how to describe it but it seemed like an odd group of kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The school itself is beautiful. Other than that, I don’t know much. It’s a small liberal arts school similar to many others.

Yes - liberal arts / literary / poetry / art heavy.

It went from all-girls to co-Ed decades ago, but still skews majority female. It’s an extremely safe-space for lesbian/ bisexual students, if that matters to your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school itself is beautiful. Other than that, I don’t know much. It’s a small liberal arts school similar to many others.

Yes - liberal arts / literary / poetry / art heavy.

It went from all-girls to co-Ed decades ago, but still skews majority female. It’s an extremely safe-space for lesbian/ bisexual students, if that matters to your child.

My kid is a straight cis boy (he's welcoming to everyone and has friends of all stripes). But potentially then would Goucher not be a good place for him to meet dating prospects or find guy friends outside of the LGBTQ scene?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its endowment is higher than I thought at roughly $300 million. But its graduation rate stinks: less than 60%.

Wow, that's pretty bad. Why do you think that is?

My understanding is it's pretty heavy on the they/them. A lot of normal kids might flee for a more traditional college environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school itself is beautiful. Other than that, I don’t know much. It’s a small liberal arts school similar to many others.

Yes - liberal arts / literary / poetry / art heavy.

It went from all-girls to co-Ed decades ago, but still skews majority female. It’s an extremely safe-space for lesbian/ bisexual students, if that matters to your child.

My kid is a straight cis boy (he's welcoming to everyone and has friends of all stripes). But potentially then would Goucher not be a good place for him to meet dating prospects or find guy friends outside of the LGBTQ scene?

My cis het white boy had a wonderful experience at Goucher. He had friends who were outside the LGBTQ community, and friends in it -- his circle of friends included both, and he had people to date. Yes, there is a strong LGBTQ presence. There is also a large proportion of Jewish students. Also first-gen students, and BIPOC students. He saw that diversity as a plus. My DC blossomed during his time in college, developed and pursued new interests, became engaged in campus life, etc.

Virtues of Goucher: its a small LAC with a traditional greenspace campus, but instead of being in a rural location like a lot of LACs we visited, it's in the suburbs (of Baltimore) and has easy access to lots of retail, restaurants, etc. For us (in the DC area), it was nice that our DC stayed close to home, it was easy for him to visit for a weekend, or even meet up for dinner. It has other traditional virtues of a small LAC, like small class sizes, access to faculty and them getting to know their students well.

[Anonymous]

Good to hear these positive things about Goucher. It is on our son's list. He is straight and was concerned that the higher LGBT might mean a culture that wasn't a social fit for him, but it doesn't sound like that is the case. It sounds like a diverse place (gender and race), which is always good.

We visited and thought the campus was nice. Beautiful library with flags representing what they said was a significant non-MD population, another plus for diversity.

The tuition is $50k+ so there was no MD in state discount happening (whereas St Mary’s College of MD is also liberal arts but has an attractive $12k in state tuition. Also St Mary’s is a beautiful campus on the water).

Goucher has a village of three buildings surrounding an outdoor area that is called The freshman village and that looked like a great way for freshmen to connect...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its endowment is higher than I thought at roughly $300 million. But its graduation rate stinks: less than 60%.

Wow, that's pretty bad. Why do you think that is?

My understanding is it's pretty heavy on the they/them. A lot of normal kids might flee for a more traditional college environment.

Blaming a college’s graduation rate on non-binary students? You are pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school itself is beautiful. Other than that, I don’t know much. It’s a small liberal arts school similar to many others.

Yes - liberal arts / literary / poetry / art heavy.

It went from all-girls to co-Ed decades ago, but still skews majority female. It’s an extremely safe-space for lesbian/ bisexual students, if that matters to your child.

My kid is a straight cis boy (he's welcoming to everyone and has friends of all stripes). But potentially then would Goucher not be a good place for him to meet dating prospects or find guy friends outside of the LGBTQ scene?

My cis het white boy had a wonderful experience at Goucher. He had friends who were outside the LGBTQ community, and friends in it -- his circle of friends included both, and he had people to date. Yes, there is a strong LGBTQ presence. There is also a large proportion of Jewish students. Also first-gen students, and BIPOC students. He saw that diversity as a plus. My DC blossomed during his time in college, developed and pursued new interests, became engaged in campus life, etc.

Virtues of Goucher: its a small LAC with a traditional greenspace campus, but instead of being in a rural location like a lot of LACs we visited, it's in the suburbs (of Baltimore) and has easy access to lots of retail, restaurants, etc. For us (in the DC area), it was nice that our DC stayed close to home, it was easy for him to visit for a weekend, or even meet up for dinner. It has other traditional virtues of a small LAC, like small class sizes, access to faculty and them getting to know their students well.

Thank you Goucher admissions !

Now, back to reality....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school itself is beautiful. Other than that, I don’t know much. It’s a small liberal arts school similar to many others.

Yes - liberal arts / literary / poetry / art heavy.

It went from all-girls to co-Ed decades ago, but still skews majority female. It’s an extremely safe-space for lesbian/ bisexual students, if that matters to your child.

My kid is a straight cis boy (he's welcoming to everyone and has friends of all stripes). But potentially then would Goucher not be a good place for him to meet dating prospects or find guy friends outside of the LGBTQ scene?

My cis het white boy had a wonderful experience at Goucher. He had friends who were outside the LGBTQ community, and friends in it -- his circle of friends included both, and he had people to date. Yes, there is a strong LGBTQ presence. There is also a large proportion of Jewish students. Also first-gen students, and BIPOC students. He saw that diversity as a plus. My DC blossomed during his time in college, developed and pursued new interests, became engaged in campus life, etc.

Virtues of Goucher: its a small LAC with a traditional greenspace campus, but instead of being in a rural location like a lot of LACs we visited, it's in the suburbs (of Baltimore) and has easy access to lots of retail, restaurants, etc. For us (in the DC area), it was nice that our DC stayed close to home, it was easy for him to visit for a weekend, or even meet up for dinner. It has other traditional virtues of a small LAC, like small class sizes, access to faculty and them getting to know their students well.

Goucher is a stones throw from the Towson mall and it shares the center of Towson (such as it is) with Towson State; there are also several other universities close by, including Coppin State, Maryland Institute College of Art, and University of Baltimore. And Hopkins, though they tend to be kinda snobby toward all the other excellent universities in Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

Why does your student want to attend Goucher ?

Does he/she needs a protective environment of like minded/like oriented students ?

As best I recall, it has a substantial Jewish population, LGBTQ+ population, super liberal, and financially weak to unstable.

[Anonymous]

Truthfully, I would not be surprised if this school closed during the next several years. Important to check out the school's financials.