Anyone attending in the fall?

yabeyabe2
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:39:59 +0000

Lovelydevil, Huskies and Maine described SU very well.
Rockvillemom, I believe Buzzingbee is exactly right about the GO program and Stradmom about the “con”. In terms of religious diversity, a Rabbi was hired this year to invigorate Jewish life on campus. Although Jews make up a very, very small % of the student body (which is similar to Juniata, Moravian and other similar PA schools except Muhlenberg), a Jewish parent told me his daughter had encountered no issues. My son is not concerned and, as long as he is accepted socially, does not feel he needs a large Jewish community. FYI, Susquehanna’s newsletter today mentioned that 200 people attended the SU Passover seder.

I believe SU suffers in terms of prestige and selectivity from the fact that PA has more good small private schools than any state I know of–far more than NY/NJ/CT combined–Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, Bucknell, Gettysburg, F&M, Dickinson, Juniata, Alleghenny, Ursinus, Muhlenberg, many Catholic colleges, and many more. This creates brutal competition for the finite number of kids who want a small college in Central PA.