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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, I am a grad - granted from 1991, but I think some still holds from what I've heard since. I know many of my fellow grads who now sent their kids there. That is kind of how the school is, you will find alums sending their kids, their grandkids etc. It's kind of a special place in my opinion. VERY tight knit because there is literally nothing else around.

It is remote, and COLD. It will be cold from October to April and snow is a given on the ground nearly that entire time.  The big sport is Hockey, which when I was there was a great team and that is what we did on the weekends... i don't think I ever went to a football game.

They have an active outdoor club which alot of people do go on hikes, skiing etc. It was never my thing so I didn't and I still had a great time.  I am from CT and I do not personally like the prep school type kids, but at the time, though alot were prep school kids, these kids were a bit more down to earth, despite what might be wealth at home. Everyone lived in JCrew, LL Bean and "beta pants" which are the SLU version of sweatpants. Not much pretension at all.

It is a small population but in my opinion this did the opposite of foster cliques, it was rather a "we're all in this together" kind of atmosphere. Everyone was friends with everyone. I was very shy (very) and absolutely loved it, ended up with a great group of lifelong friends and even was in a sorority (greek life was huge when I was there but isn't anymore).

It has a great alumni network, but yeah outside that it's a typical SLAC so alot of people will not have heard of it.

My classmates are now physicians, lawyers (alot of lawyers), investment bankers, CEOs etc.

my DD applied last year EA and received a $40K annual "Momentum scholarship" and a nice personalized note on her acceptance letter. It quickly went from her safety to her background plan if she didn't get into her first choice, which she did.

All that being said, you have to visit if it's something DC is seriously considering, preferably in the winter LOL I for one loved the drive through the Adirondacks ot get there and how remote it was,[b] but the area surrounding campus is one of the poorest in the country, on a level with the deep deep South.[/b]
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I am familiar with the area and this surprises me.  It is rural but there are like 5 grocery stores including a Huge Walmart and a Lowes.  6 or 7 chain hotels between Potsdam and Canton.  Some decent restaurants.  Just having 4 colleges and all the related faculty brings an area up.[/quote]

Certainly could have changed but when I went there, I literally took a class that compared the "North Country" with very deep south, with high rates of poverty and hunger. Looks like the current poverty rate is 18.9%. That's pretty damn high. I came from an affluent community in CT and this was very foreign and eye opening to me.[/quote]

I have not looked at the data but driving through the area is very different then Appalachia with distressed housing and little commerce beyond a dollar store.  We looked at Clarkson. [/quote]
It's been a while since I graduated, but the North Country used to have a very large proportion of people without running water and with only dirt floors.  In some ways poorer that Appalachia.   They were still living like subsistence farmers, so no junk out front because it costs money to buy junk.  More like poor farmers in the 1930s.  It's a bimodal population with some having almost nothing.  [/quote]

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