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Hi, fellow Vassar parent. I'm the one who posted on the first page of the thread.

OP, this parent above nails it. Great post.

My kid is one of the arts contingent but has friends in all sorts of majors including STEM. DD seems to know a lot of kids who are neuroscience or biology majors and she says both seem to be popular majors. One thing about Vassar that's interesting is that a lot of students have minors (called "correlates" there) and many do double majors. DD knows, ffor instance, a neuroscience and drama double major and a bio major with a music minor. Lots of others. The curriculum is flexible enough that getting correlates is doable--not easy, but doable. It's attractive to kids who have varied interests.

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Anyway, OP, I recommend your kid visit. I strongly recommend that your student contact departments of interest and ask to visit them and talk to someone. Before we visited, DD contacted two departments and both invited her to come see them when she was on campus, and set up times. One department head invited her to take two classes that day! She took one class and the dept. head, who was teaching, ended it a little early just to take her around the department and talk to her, which blew her away. The other meeting, with an administrator, was supposed to be a 20-minute chat and turned into a 90-minute tour of the building. DD did not have Vassar on the radar at all and was just a random HS junior with no connection or commitment to apply but they were so responsive and welcoming. Definitely visit and do more than the tour and info session if you can. [/quote]

Second the advice from the fellow Vassar parent (whose past posts here about Vassar were helpful to us--thanks!); try to talk to current students too.

FWIW, I went to a small NESCAC and feel that Vassar's location beats that of many of the NESCACs. In my kid's experience, a number of students have cars and they do get to occasionally visit places nearby, including NYC. [/quote]

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