Union College in NY

[Anonymous]

We visited Union which we were considering for my son. It seemed like a very nice preppy liberal arts college with engineering (as opposed to one of the 3+2 programs that many people end up not pursuing). The academics, campus and professors were all great. I was concerned about the trimester system. Classes move fast and I wasn’t sure it was a good match for my son. There was a definite Long Island presence among the students. But for us, diversity was a huge issue. There were very few black students on campus and they seemed not to mingle with the other kids at all. This is not at all what we are used to living in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Is that because she couldn't get into Bowdoin, Bates or Colby?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Is that because she couldn't get into Bowdoin, Bates or Colby?

Your attempt at humor is really immature.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Is that because she couldn't get into Bowdoin, Bates or Colby?

Your attempt at humor is really immature.

Immature? That was funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We visited Union which we were considering for my son. It seemed like a very nice preppy liberal arts college with engineering (as opposed to one of the 3+2 programs that many people end up not pursuing). The academics, campus and professors were all great. I was concerned about the trimester system. Classes move fast and I wasn’t sure it was a good match for my son. There was a definite Long Island presence among the students. But for us, diversity was a huge issue. There were very few black students on campus and they seemed not to mingle with the other kids at all. This is not at all what we are used to living in the DC area.

Yesterday, I read studentsreview website comments about Union College. There are a few pages of negative comments that might be of interest to some readers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Is that because she couldn't get into Bowdoin, Bates or Colby?

Your attempt at humor is really immature.

Immature? That was funny.

And probably true. There’s no other reason she’d have chosen the school she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Yes you are correct, that poster is a purposeful troll, the academics are excellent at those colleges. Union's STEM programs and facilities are shockingly good for an LAC and easy to evaluate as they show them off on the tours. Ask them about grad school placement rates too. Don't trust anonymous posters who clearly know nothing and were likely rejected.

I’m the PP and no I was not rejected. My son’s best friend went to St. Lawrence for a year before transferring to a much better school (T20) and the stories he has told us are insane. And no, my son himself did not apply to either of these joke schools.

No, you're a troll, or someone HUGELY uninformed. Probably both.

You've never visited, done no research, offer no stats, no supporting information, just an anecdote about St L from your son's BFF, and nothing about Union at all despite you're taking a shot at it.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Why are you freaking out? Assuming you graduated from Union, your knee jerk defensiveness is not helping the school’s image

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Yes you are correct, that poster is a purposeful troll, the academics are excellent at those colleges. Union's STEM programs and facilities are shockingly good for an LAC and easy to evaluate as they show them off on the tours. Ask them about grad school placement rates too. Don't trust anonymous posters who clearly know nothing and were likely rejected.

I’m the PP and no I was not rejected. My son’s best friend went to St. Lawrence for a year before transferring to a much better school (T20) and the stories he has told us are insane. And no, my son himself did not apply to either of these joke schools.

NP. I’m in California and have no interest in these schools for my kids, but FYI you sound like such a crazy troll. I simply don’t believe you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Yes you are correct, that poster is a purposeful troll, the academics are excellent at those colleges. Union's STEM programs and facilities are shockingly good for an LAC and easy to evaluate as they show them off on the tours. Ask them about grad school placement rates too. Don't trust anonymous posters who clearly know nothing and were likely rejected.

I’m the PP and no I was not rejected. My son’s best friend went to St. Lawrence for a year before transferring to a much better school (T20) and the stories he has told us are insane. And no, my son himself did not apply to either of these joke schools.

No, you're a troll, or someone HUGELY uninformed. Probably both.

You've never visited, done no research, offer no stats, no supporting information, just an anecdote about St L from your son's BFF, and nothing about Union at all despite you're taking a shot at it.

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Why are you freaking out? Assuming you graduated from Union, your knee jerk defensiveness is not helping the school’s image

Meh. I’m not that PP but the original PP she was responding to really did sound like an idiot. Sometimes idiots are frustrating. I probably wouldn’t have been that strongly opinionated, but that other PPs post really was pretty stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Yes you are correct, that poster is a purposeful troll, the academics are excellent at those colleges. Union's STEM programs and facilities are shockingly good for an LAC and easy to evaluate as they show them off on the tours. Ask them about grad school placement rates too. Don't trust anonymous posters who clearly know nothing and were likely rejected.

I’m the PP and no I was not rejected. My son’s best friend went to St. Lawrence for a year before transferring to a much better school (T20) and the stories he has told us are insane. And no, my son himself did not apply to either of these joke schools.

NP. I’m in California and have no interest in these schools for my kids, but FYI you sound like such a crazy troll. I simply don’t believe you.

I am not the poster to whom you are referring, but the poster you are trying to discredit is spot on accurate.

[Anonymous]

Unlike most of the posters here, I actually have a kid who graduated from Union. Though expensive, we found it to be worth every penny, even at full pay. Our kid graduated from an ivy law school and has had an excellent legal career, so far. Kid’s spouse also graduated from Union and is a well-respected physician. The campus is beautiful, although Schenectady is not. It is there cold in the winter, but so are many other schools in the NE.

[Anonymous]

Different people will have different impressions of a shared experience. Just read the pages of positive reviews and the pages of negative reviews on studentsreview dot com.

It isn't that school cultures are all bad or all good; it is about understanding what you are getting into if you decide to attend a particular LAC.

LACs are small and often--not always--located in rural, isolated areas. The smallness makes it important to understand the dominant social culture at an LAC. Not important at larger schools due to the ease of finding diverse groups and diverse opportunities in significant numbers.

An old saying: You can make a large school small, but you can't make a small school big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Yes you are correct, that poster is a purposeful troll, the academics are excellent at those colleges. Union's STEM programs and facilities are shockingly good for an LAC and easy to evaluate as they show them off on the tours. Ask them about grad school placement rates too. Don't trust anonymous posters who clearly know nothing and were likely rejected.

I’m the PP and no I was not rejected. My son’s best friend went to St. Lawrence for a year before transferring to a much better school (T20) and the stories he has told us are insane. And no, my son himself did not apply to either of these joke schools.

NP. I’m in California and have no interest in these schools for my kids, but FYI you sound like such a crazy troll. I simply don’t believe you.

I am not the poster to whom you are referring, but the poster you are trying to discredit is spot on accurate.

She sounds insane. I’m skeptical of her as a result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also look at St Lawrence. Great D3 sports, beautiful and walkable campus (in a small town surrounded by other colleges), loyal alumni base, wonderful merit aid for kids with her stats.

They’re both party schools for rich kids who don’t want to actually go to college for the academics, but their parents are making them anyway. Any serious student would have a lot of regrets.

Sweeping generalizations like that are just plain ignorant.

Susan Collins, the Senator from Maine, attended St. Lawrence.

The current CEO of Texas Instruments attended Union.

It didn't keep them from achieving their goals.

Yes you are correct, that poster is a purposeful troll, the academics are excellent at those colleges. Union's STEM programs and facilities are shockingly good for an LAC and easy to evaluate as they show them off on the tours. Ask them about grad school placement rates too. Don't trust anonymous posters who clearly know nothing and were likely rejected.

I’m the PP and no I was not rejected. My son’s best friend went to St. Lawrence for a year before transferring to a much better school (T20) and the stories he has told us are insane. And no, my son himself did not apply to either of these joke schools.

NP. I’m in California and have no interest in these schools for my kids, but FYI you sound like such a crazy troll. I simply don’t believe you.

I am not the poster to whom you are referring, but the poster you are trying to discredit is spot on accurate.

She sounds insane. I’m skeptical of her as a result.

Maybe we are referring to different posters. Can you post the prior post that you think is insane ? Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Both of these schools are infamous for sexual assaults. If you have a daughter, I would be very cautious to consider these schools.