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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Way too cold and remote.[/quote]

+1 Students will experience a new level of cold at this small school.

Nice athletic facility, beautiful Autumn season, same faces everyday everywhere. [b]Kids miss out on a lot of life due to the weather and due to the smallness. Tough environment after a year, maybe two.[/b]
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I really hate it when people opine on life at a LAC when they don’t have any experience. A very high portion of kids at small rural liberal arts schools love their experiences and don’t feel they miss out at all. I bet a comparison of reunion attendance at any of the NESCAC schools beats almost all other US colleges, save Princeton. [/quote]

Well, I do have experience at both a fairly isolated cold-weather LAC and I wish that I had gone elsewhere. Attended a large university for grad school & loved it. Kids really do miss out on a lot that life has to offer at small, cold weather, isolated schools. And,no,not just tailgate parties and football as the social options are plentiful and varied as are the academic options.

Small, rural LACs can be a good experience for those who like smallness and want to continue the high school/prep school/boarding school type experience. Not intended to be a criticism as the intimacy is attractive to some--but it does come with a lack of privacy and very limited social & academic options. [/quote]

All this shows is that some schools are not the right fit for some students. Your college was not the right fit for you, that doesn't mean it's not the right fit for someone else. A student who goes to a huge school also misses out, just on different things. [/quote]

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