Hi collegemom3717, thanks again for your insights, these are important areas that I haven’t thought about.
Hmm, I will be getting a fully paid scholarship from my home country to study sociology, but I’m also very interested in other fields that aren’t necessarily related to sociology. So the flexible/structured programmes at Carleton and Vassar is definitely an important difference between the two but I can see the strengths of both and I think I wouldn’t mind it either way so I’ll put this on hold.
I would like a culture that is friendly and actively open to meeting new people and getting to know them. At the same time, though, I think that a place that is excessively loud and extroverted could make me clam up so I think I’d like a school that’s on the ‘friendly’ side of things but not too extreme? Would you say Vassar or Carleton is more extroverted?
I want a campus that is very accepting of diversity and LGBT and different cultures, but hopefully somewhere that is not too into partying and drinking and drugs because first of all my parents are worried and second of all I don’t really enjoy drinking and drugs personally. What does it mean to be more conservative in the US? (I’m taking the word to mean like, opposite of uninhibited/wild but I’m not sure if that’s accurate.
Haha well as an asian Chinese who will be from an international country, I will definitely be looking for a school that is as diverse (and respecting of diversity) as possible.