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[quote=Anonymous]If you search the forum I believe there was a somewhat recent posting asking about Manhattan.

My knowledge and experiences are quite dated as I attended in the late 1980’s. Take my notes for what they are worth.

I have dual degrees from Manhattan - BS and MS - both in the sciences. I have a brother with dual degrees  (BE, ME) in Engineering.

We were first generation and from the surrounding predominantly Irish-American neighborhood.

You could afford to attend, live home, and pay your tuition with a part time job. With that you could graduate as an Engineer and do pretty well for yourself. Along the way you may have met a young nursing Student who was studying at Mt. St. Vincent - which was affiliated with Manhattan. There were worse college experiences for the local neighborhood kids.

School at that time had a solid mix of commuters and residents. Partly some jealously on the parts of the commuters who would have liked to been a resident while the residents did have a bit of a tendency to hold their noses up at the “townies”.

I used to wonder if you could afford to go away to school why would you pick Manhattan - especially if you were not doing Engineering.

I understood the Mount girls a little better because it had a well regarded nursing program and the campus was secluded, on the Hudson, and in a nice part of the Bronx.

If you are starting out in life and trying to get your first rung on the economic ladder an Engineering degree from Manhattan will serve you well.

So my take on Manhattan back in the day was it was where the LMC students attended that could not afford to go away to school.

My data is quite dated but I’d wonder if a similar mentality might hold true today.

I will say I liked the Christian Brothers and I am grateful for their teaching.

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