<p>Do not enroll at Lewis & Clark College.</p>
<p>I’m transferring this year, and could not be happier. LC is just depressing. The entire student body is divided into three groups of equal size–athletes, international students and everyone else. You will meet and hear from people who should not have passed the ninth grade in MANY of your classes. </p>
<p>I also hope you like inferiority complexes, because Portlanders seem to be aware (and will say to you) that Reed is the smart school and Lewis & Clark is the rich kid school.</p>
<p>Our most prominent alum is Monica Lewinsky. </p>
<p>You will leave LC in heavy debt (regardless of the size of your scholarship) and without a job or decent prospects for grad school (ask for stats regarding grad/professional school acceptance rates; most departments don’t keep any because they’re so low!!) A pretty campus is great, but LC is not worth the headache.</p>
<p>Another place you shouldn’t go if you’re going into electrical engineering - University of New Mexico. The teachers don’t teach, class organization is all askew, so even if you take a prerequisite course, there’s no guarantee that you will actually be taught what you need for the following course. I think the liberal arts college is better, but avoid if you are going into engineering. </p>
<p>shiny, I think that your statement is an extreme sweeping generalization and you just didn’t have a good time there, like some people do at every college they enroll at. L&C wasn’t for you, but that doesn’t mean it’s not for everyone. It seems you’re kind of frustrated with what you got at L&C, so this post may just to vent, but it doesn’t mean that your experience was universal. </p>
<p>So if I want to do intramural sports and also have international friends and hang out with hipsters I should go to Puget Sound?</p>
<p>I’m one of many LC students who feels this way. It’s your choice, but you’d be remiss to ignore any piece of information when making a decision about where to invest your future. </p>
<p>Well that’s very contrary to the experience of my D and her friends who recently graduated from LC. Like the person who graduated with a degree in Bio and went directly into a PhD program (must have been a tough 9th grade). She belonged to many clubs and went to watch sports (never did in HS) and cabaret acts in the coffee shop. She had an international student as a roommate for a year. College is what you make of it. If you take advantage of opportunities you will be happier.</p>
<p>A PhD where though? You can belong to clubs and watch sports at any high school. These are not things that qualify a school as good or worthwhile. I never said you would not be roommates with international students–just that they won’t interact with you. </p>
<p>Lewis & Clark just does not offer a strong enough education or prestigious enough name to justify its price tag. </p>
<p>I believe it was Stanford.</p>
Nice straw man, but that doesn’t refute anything I said.
All I can say is good luck at your future college. Obviously nothing will change your mind about L&C.