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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One factor to weigh is that Vassar, while co-Ed, has a very skewed sex ratio (like a lot of artsy LACs). This has unfortunate effects on the dating scene (such as rendering it almost nonexistent) and skews much more towards hook-ups. I’m a man who went to Vassar and as much as we want to say that people can just engage each other on their own terms, dating practices are highly culture-bound, which makes it very difficult to go a different way without boycotting the whole thing. My wife went to Holyoke, and she said one of the advantages it had was that it was a single sex education but so many other colleges around that it was easy to find co-educational experiences on your own terms. I think there’s something to be said for that.

Also Poughkeepsie is terrible. [/quote]

My kid (who takes school pretty seriously), liked that at MHC you could get away from the crazed aspects of college on their little campus, but when you wanted to mingle with a wilder crowd you just jumped on the bus and head into Amherst. She felt like MHC was its own little refuge when needed. (Note this impression was based on visits, not attendance)[/quote]

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