Beloit College - too 'hippy'?

lrstein
Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:33:18 +0000

As someone who graduated from Beloit in December I thought I would weigh in.

Beloit is an interesting and great place and I don’t think your son would feel very out of place there at all. Thinking back, I was interested in similar schools. Beloit wasn’t the best I applied to, but it was my top choice.

Anyway, yes there are hippy types. There are more “hipsters”, but there’s every kind of student you could think of there and with a few exceptions everyone is friendly and the diffrent “groups” mix a lot. Generally the students could best be described overall as quirky, intelligent, and motivated in some way. If what motivates you is politics, then that’s what displays. I started college as a bleeding heart liberal, but very apolitical. There are a lot of bleeding hearts there and they’re the most vocal, but there are also a lot of moderate liberals. I’ve slowly become more conservative as time has gone on and there are also conservatives and people of other political persuasions at Beloit too. Most of my friends from Beloit are pretty normal, average people. We dressed and acted like average college students. The fraternity life doesn’t dominate at all (I was involved even though I one of the resons I originally chose Beloit was because there wasn’t much Greek life). Only one of the 3 fraternities on campus is what you could really call stereotypical.

Visit if you can for a full day and ask if you can get 2 diffrent hosts, one for the day and one for the night. You may see two diffrent sides of the student body and a more accurate representation of people.

As far as the sciences go, Beloit just built a beautiful new science center. All my science major friends were/are pretty happy there. This includes the ones who used to slave away in the dingy old building from the 60s. The attention that you get from faculty is top notch and that’s really what makes it.

-Lee