DARTMOUTH/Duke/Swarthmore/Midd

mini
Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:50:25 +0000

The phrase was “full college experience”. I was just trying to fish around and find out what the heck that meant. It sounded suspciously like a euphemism for something that has very little to do with academics"

;) Probably true! Clearly, there will be more drunken parties elsewhere. Orgies I don’t know from.

At the same time, Swat has by the smallest course catalog, and the smallest number of academic choices and options. If I were totally undecided about what I wanted to study, I might decide that’s a good thing, as it makes choosing easier, or a bad thing, as choices are more circumscribed. But it is a “thing”.

If I were coming from abroad, and hoping to learn, breathe, feel “America”, I’d go do to Duke.

Great to have choices!

To the OP - the differences between Middlebury and Williams are so minor, they are hardly worth considering, unless you are sure you are an art history (or maybe a math) major (Williams) or a language major (Middlebury). They are both gorgeous, and both isolated - and Williams currently is less gorgeous because there is a big hole in the ground in the center of the campus (for a new campus center, not to be completed until January 2007 at the earliest), to be followed by another big hole in the ground in the center of the campus when they destroy the library (right after they finish the student center) and build a new one. As an alum, I think it is WONDERFUL that they are doing this, but it is and will have an impact on campus life. So, unless an Art History (or math) major, don’t worry about the Williams WL. (and Dartmouth is not very different from Williams either.)