Reply to Please suggest a kind and gentle school

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Please suggest a kind and gentle school"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
This is a roundabout way of suggesting that it may be a bit of a fool's errand to try to identify a school based on criteria such as kindness or gentleness.  Instead, select a school which seems a good match by conventional measures - class size, professorial availability and commitment to undergraduate teaching, campus attributes, students who are generally similarly academically capable, courses the student wants to take and majors of interest, extracurricular activities available, and so on.  The student will be surrounded by like-minded others, which should make it possible to form supportive and rewarding personal relationships, not with everyone, obviously, but with at least a few people.  
[/quote]

Wow, it's surprising that someone would post here with so little familiarity about the range of college cultures.

I will add that those cultures can change for the better or the worse. When I was in college, the Seven Sisters had a reputation for being places that nurtured women's academic achievements. In the past few years, a more-recent graduate of one of them told me that when she was there, students would hide library books so no one had access. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics