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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can afford, apply and try your luck. What he doesn't like about his current school?[/quote]

Very large, very very bro/frat culture. Has found a solid friend group and is involved in lots of activities. Not miserable at all but just feels that Vassar or similar would be a better fit.[/quote]

Bro / frat culture? I read that a lot of the male students are gay or bisexual and there is pressure to align in that way. [/quote]'

NP. I actually have a kid at Vassar right now and someone on this thread seems determined to keep coming back and making everything about "a lot of the male students are gay" etc. and trying to make it sound somehow scary for a straight male to attend there. Nothing said by those posters about the excellent academics or anything else that actually [i]matters[/i]. So to dispense with this: Sure, there are plenty of LGBTQIA+ students. They exist at other SLACs too, or hadn't you heard? My kid's experience is that there is no "pressure to align" any way, sexually speaking. Students are smart enough to know that sexuality isn't something you "align" yourself into, it's something you're born with. At least one PP here seems to think people will be somehow "pressured" to turn gay, I guess. How...ill-informed.

DC knows and is friends with students of every description including, gasp!, straight students who date other straight students. I know, crazy, right?

Students are much more interested in which activities you do than in your sexual preferences. An earlier PP who is a Vassar alum has it right--a cappella is hot stuff. Still is, alum PP!

OP, since your son has friends there he knows much more about the school than some of the PPs on this thread. As another earlier PP said, a shy heterosexual boy who isn't into bro culture will be fine if he goes there. Plenty of other good options listed in some posts above, too. All the best to your son, wherever he goes. [/quote]

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