Is Colgate weak?

Seachai86442 · 02-09-2009, 11:58 PM

It's a good school, but might not put as much reputation into the school.

pinkfeather · 02-10-2009, 12:57 AM

What do you mean?

ticklemepink · 02-10-2009, 09:58 PM

Excuse me while I puke. *retches*

I am seriously offended. Colgate does have a GREAT reputation among those in the know such as employers and graduate schools. People in the Northeast know the school. It produces excellent job applicants with strong writing, reading, and speaking skills that its curriculum emphasizes.

Seachai86442 · 02-10-2009, 10:22 PM

No, I was just wondering. Cause there was someone who made a thread in the Michigan forum asking if Michigan was weak in anyway.

To some people, there are strong reputated schools out there that are weakened by the school reputation when they actually say it. But it depends on the person. Cause when they go to the school and say, oh shoot, this is a great school!

colinization · 02-13-2009, 06:37 PM

I think it really depends on where you want to end up. Some schools are revered in one area of the country, but not known elsewhere. For example, when I met some kids from SoCal this summer and told them I was applying to Dartmouth, they asked me if it was a state school, but when I told them I was applying to Rice, they were very impressed. When I told people back here in Vermont the exact same thing, the reaction was the complete opposite.

iskander · 02-28-2009, 05:16 AM

^^ seriously?! You've met people who do not know Dartmouth but know Rice? I doubt that.

swissmiss3 · 02-28-2009, 12:16 PM

My sister graduated from Dartmouth in June and studied for one semester at Colgate as a visiting student. She said the academics were not as hard at Colgate as they were at Dartmouth, and said that it might be due, in part, to Dartmouth being on the quarter system while Colgate uses semesters. The shortened calendar at Dartmouth makes courses more intense. BTW, she loved her time at Colgate and encouraged me to apply there, which I did.

Modadunn · 02-28-2009, 12:22 PM

Swiss.. thanks for the post. My S applied ED to Dartmouth (rejected :-), but has applied RD to Colgate, Midd and Amherst (among others). It's nice to see a side by side comparison by someone who has been to both.

bluebayou · 02-28-2009, 01:57 PM

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seriously?! You've met people who do not know Dartmouth but know Rice? I doubt that.

As a California parent that one is easy to explain: Rice has an 8 year med program, so its on the radar of all the premed wannabes. Rice also offers merit money.