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[quote=Anonymous]Colgate.

The good: excellent academics and deep connections with professors, some lasting decades.

The bad: it's a pretty toxic place. Greek culture dominates, and drinking and partying are rampant. There is pressure on the professors to go easy on athletes. Students who aren't interested in the Greek -- athlete -- drinking continuum are outsiders and often ostracized. Perhaps worst of all, the treatment and objectification of women is still an issue, and has led to several friends and friends' daughters seeking mental help.

Recent attempts to make themselves more attractive are interesting. I love that they have essentially made themselves free for students with limited resources. But their entrepreneur center is all about appearance rather than substance, and is an extracurricular no different from intramural sports. Much of what they are doing seems to be about the appearance of being a great elite school.

It's a good school academically with a really big footnote, and you can get the good school part without the toxicity elsewhere.[/quote]

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