DD applied. I thought the campus was beautiful and DD described it as like a nature center (a positive for her). Strong program for biology/environmental science. It had a lot of what she wanted. Only negative was no town to walk to. There is a shopping area not too far away but you really need a car to get there. I thought it would be a strong contender but she has two good friends there who are also biology majors (they like it) and she really did not want to go to college with friends.

You have to really want rural and small. Beautiful campus and everybody we met were really nice. A lot of MoCo kids go there. My kid said absolutely not…too remote.

I know one person who goes there who barely made it through high school.

This is a definite safety school for a solid B student.

We visited. It was a very pretty campus. It is far off the beaten path for sure. My daughter said it felt like summer camp. I think they have a lot of students who learn to sail. I was impressed with the outreach by professors, who seemed kind and interested in their students. It is very rural. The dining hall food was delicious!

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up down there. I got out at the first opportunity. Unless you sail I don't see why anyone would want to go. No place to intern or get a job. When I was in high school people drank because there was nothing else to do.

I have heard drinking and drugs are big issues at SMCM because, as you said, there's nothing to do.

Drinking and drugs are present at every college.

Anonymous wrote:Ever heard of hyperbole?

Suicide is not a good reference for hyperbole.

In honor of suicide prevention month, let’s all commit to do better when it comes to this topic.

My kids went there during Covid so that was a different experience but they hated it and transfered out asap

Anonymous wrote:I grew up down there. I got out at the first opportunity. Unless you sail I don't see why anyone would want to go. No place to intern or get a job. When I was in high school people drank because there was nothing else to do.

I have heard drinking and drugs are big issues at SMCM because, as you said, there's nothing to do.

Ever heard of hyperbole?

I grew up down there. I got out at the first opportunity. Unless you sail I don't see why anyone would want to go. No place to intern or get a job. When I was in high school people drank because there was nothing else to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible location.

Not everyone wants city life. I loved going to college in a rural location.
I didn't have to worry about crime on campus for once in my life, it was freeing as a young woman.

The base has more influence on the area than the College.

A few years ago I visited St. Mary's as it was part of a school field trip my then 4th grader was taking. I was excited to see it but when I got there I literally knew that if I'd had to attend, I would have slashed my wrists. It is RURAL and isolated and small. You have a 2.5 hour drive to civilization along one back-country road. No thank you.

please reconsider the way you casually make light of suicide

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible location.

Not everyone wants city life. I loved going to college in a rural location.
I didn't have to worry about crime on campus for once in my life, it was freeing as a young woman.

The base has more influence on the area than the College.

A few years ago I visited St. Mary's as it was part of a school field trip my then 4th grader was taking. I was excited to see it but when I got there I literally knew that if I'd had to attend, I would have slashed my wrists. It is RURAL and isolated and small. You have a 2.5 hour drive to civilization along one back-country road. No thank you.

please reconsider the way you casually make light of suicide

I don't make light of it. I'm serious. I would have had a major breakdown and killed myself if I'd been stuck in that hole for 4 yrs.

Well, you can give your opinion of a school you didn’t attend and only visited without throwing in suicidal references. It added no value to the comments and seemed off-handed. Just think about it next time you type something like that out, please.

I see nothing wrong with PP's post. It's just how she felt about the school and isolation.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible location.

Not everyone wants city life. I loved going to college in a rural location.
I didn't have to worry about crime on campus for once in my life, it was freeing as a young woman.

The base has more influence on the area than the College.

A few years ago I visited St. Mary's as it was part of a school field trip my then 4th grader was taking. I was excited to see it but when I got there I literally knew that if I'd had to attend, I would have slashed my wrists. It is RURAL and isolated and small. You have a 2.5 hour drive to civilization along one back-country road. No thank you.

please reconsider the way you casually make light of suicide

I don't make light of it. I'm serious. I would have had a major breakdown and killed myself if I'd been stuck in that hole for 4 yrs.

Well, you can give your opinion of a school you didn’t attend and only visited without throwing in suicidal references. It added no value to the comments and seemed off-handed. Just think about it next time you type something like that out, please.

As a sailor, I would have loved it!

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible location.

Not everyone wants city life. I loved going to college in a rural location.
I didn't have to worry about crime on campus for once in my life, it was freeing as a young woman.

The base has more influence on the area than the College.

A few years ago I visited St. Mary's as it was part of a school field trip my then 4th grader was taking. I was excited to see it but when I got there I literally knew that if I'd had to attend, I would have slashed my wrists. It is RURAL and isolated and small. You have a 2.5 hour drive to civilization along one back-country road. No thank you.

That’s just not accurate.

Which part?