Choosing a Christian College and its reputation

MyCCscreenname
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 08:36:34 +0000

This person didn’t list Marantha Bible College. That’s the kind of school where all of the student had parents that dictated they had to go to a Christian College. That’s the Bob Jones University type crowd: dress codes, rules, gender separation… there’s plenty of Christian Colleges that aren’t like that. I used to go to one of those crazypants churches where they were all about Bible colleges and BJU. I ended up going to Houghton. We had chapel 3 times a week and you had to go to 2/3s of them. There were separate dorms for men and women and visiting hours meant the opposite gender signed in at the front desk and you had to leave the door to your room open. I don’t remember if there was a dress code, but we definitely wore jeans and a t-shirt or sweater. I don’t remember girls dressing like skanks which is something that you will deal with at a public college. If you live in the dorms, music will be louder. Roommates will probably be more combative and may have their boyfriends sleeping over.

On the other hand, I find it hard to believe public college isn’t cheaper. If it really isn’t then go where you want. Nowadays, I would think they would just google a school’s average SATs to see if it should be taken seriously and these schools are all in the average range with an average score of 500 something for the SAT subtests. I don’t think it would be an issue of “we don’t know this school,” but we don’t want to hire a Christian because they’ll be trying to convert the staff, which they, of course, aren’t going to tell you.