<p>I just visited Wesleyan- located in central CT. There was nothing to do around there! Are Middlebury and Colgate also boring?</p>
<p>You better like outdoor activities and drinking.</p>
<p>not all LAC’s are like, but some of them are just based on location. Non-lac’s in rural areas get have the same problem. Ask what people think dartmouth kids do for fun? ski and drink. And there’s a partial truth to every lie.</p>
<p>This is one reason that my D fixed upon Smith…Northampton is a small town but it’s very hip and there are four other colleges in the area. If your stats are game for Wesleyan and Middlebury you should at least think about Amherst. I have the strong feeling you won’t be qualified for Smith.</p>
<p>That seems to small- seeing the same faces all the time. And how can you have a thriving campus life with so few students? If you’re not on an athletic team would you feel left out at such a small school? Are there many Blacks like myself there?</p>
<p>Depends on what you like to do. The very fact that Colgate is in the middle of nowhere means that the administration spends a lot of money providing things for students to do. Same with Grinnell (although that wasn’t on your list).</p>
<p>Middlebury has its own ski slope, which could be fun, if you’re into that. Both Colgate and Midd are pretty competitive in athletics, not necessarily D1, but in their own conferences. (Colgate is D1 though.) </p>
<p>If your thing is something like hanging out at a mall though, I must ask, why can’t you hang out just as well in a dorm room or student center?</p>
<p>why are you attracted to LAC’s at all? I might be wrong, but you seem more like a non-lac/university type of person. I don’t see you enjoying the advantages of having less students</p>
<p>if you’re not interested in outdoors activites, you might get really bored and depressed during the long, cold winters at Middlebury and Colgate. i’m going to Dartmouth next year and i’m psyched for everything the rural location has to offer…but, the outdoors are my passion and i live to ski.</p>
<p>I agree with celebrian. I’m really interested in LACs for basically the same reasons you don’t like them. I like the fact that most have small student bodies and the relative lack of things to do off-campus seems to generate a sense of community since students generally socialize on campus.</p>
<p>I totally agre with green machine. I went to Columbia and transferred to Dartmouth. All I found I did at Columbia was hang out at bars/ clubs on weekends, and I found it much more fun at Dartmouth where I was able to socialize in a community with people I got to know people really well.</p>
<p>Ritchieboy, the smaller size is why D passed on Amherst and applied to Smith (2600 total). Amherst’s student body includes about 10 percent black.</p>
<p>Ritchieboy- it might be Wesleyan in particular. We visited 4 yrs ago, my S had tour and interview and decided not to apply. It was the only school we both agreed upon…we both hated it. In all fairness we didn’t see much of Middletown but what we saw we didn’t like. Of course it is a fabulous school.</p>
<p>He decided at that point to apply to only larger schools in/near cities.</p>
<p>I concur with that. I visited many schools while I was in college and Wes was one of the few I didnt like (I loved Vassar, Middlebury, Brown, etc).</p>
<p>Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but, you have to realize that visiting Middletown in the middle of January is not perhaps the the best time to see a cross-section of students and faculty (which is 90% of what any school is about.) The place is practically shut down until February.</p>
<p>Wes is the opposite of boring, but it is also a VERY unique place compared to other schools, even Vassar and the like.</p>
<p>Just curious. What is it like at Grinnell?</p>
<p>It’s not as remote as you might think. The admin goes to great lengths to provide outings to the outside world as well as a slew of on-campus activities. Parties are even sponsored by the college. There seemed to be a lot to do, IMO.</p>
<p>Some people find drunks and shallow social scenes boring, some people find libraries boring…boring happens in your mind. A weekend without an event planned is a dream for some, a nightmare for others or an opportunity to plan an event. Good luck.</p>
<p>I’ve got several family members in top ten LACs, who are so busy all the time that they have to cut things out in order to get everything done! They are swamped with classes, campus organizations, sports teams, weekend trips either outdoors (skiing, camping, whatever) or to concerts (most Lacs are within a few hours or less of a big city), wokring with profs on special projects, doing weekly volunteer work from mentoring elementary school kids to running festivals to … well, the list goes on and on…and on.</p>
<p>People who find things “boring” are usually saying more about themselves than the surroundings.</p>
<p>“People who find things “boring” are usually saying more about themselves than the surroundings.”</p>
<p>my favorite point to make to any person :)</p>