Chances/social life?

mkm56
Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:31:11 +0000

I will try to answer some of your questions, but I’m sure a student will do a much better job. My son just finished his freshman year. Your stats look good for admission to me–in range of my son and some of his friends that started there last year. I’m assuming top 10% of class? I’ve been told they put a good deal of weight on the essays, so take your time with those. There seems to be a debate on whether ED increases admission chances or not, certainly don’t think it hurts–if it’s your first choice, it is nice to know where you are going so early in your senior year.

Students seem to be very active. Many play intramural sports and there are alot of opportunities for pick-up games of basketball, soccer, football, etc. Greek life is popular, but certainly doesn’t affect social life if you elect not to be involved. My son decided he didn’t want to spend the time involved in pledging, etc, but has friends in various frats and other friends not involved. Has not made a difference to him in the availability of social activities.

He has really enjoyed most of his classes so far. Profs have been easily approachable, classes small, good discussions. Communication between profs and students has been remarkable. I see such a change in him from high school, where he just wanted to get done with a class and now he is enthused about a subject (sometimes something he thought he would have no interest in)

Unfortunately he also had the dubious honor of “checking out” student health services too. Had some minor medical problems and then ended up with an emergency appendectomy in Nov. Health services handled all that well and made sure profs were kept informed.

Probably half of students have cars, which makes it easy to get rides to wherever you might want to go. They also have some kind of taxi service where you can use your “card”. My son had car on campus, so I’m not very familar with the other transportation. However, he didn’t use the car more than once every couple weeks–and then it was usually to go to “Cook-Out” or make a run to Best Buy or Target.

Hope I was some help. Good luck in your college decisions.