Elizabethtown 2021 - dedicated students and faculty?

MACmiracle
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:41:51 +0000

I don’t have personal experience with the honors college. I have a memory of reading somewhere that it was selective and challenging. But my impression with Etown is that there’s value in the challenge kids are given because the professors are involved and doing their part.

Generally the kids work hard and get stressed, but they stick together and support each other through it, at least in my D’s small program. But my D has friends in other departments who don’t seem as busy or stressed toward the end of the semester…and I don’t know if tgey are as close-knit. ??

I don’t know about biology particularly, by the science classes seem challenging. My D’s program required a science class that many students wound up withdrawing from because they were doing so poorly, way beyond what would be expected. The good news about that was the department addressed the issue and made changes.

I think that students that make an effort will be very prepared for grad school. My D’s program has students attending professional conferences from freshman year and doing grad school level research. When I was in undergrad, I read mostly textbooks, while my D reads mainly professional literature and subscribes to academic journals.

I can’t really say the housing is great. It’s adequate. My D has been in three different dorms. One year the building was older but the room was a good size. My D never had a suite, like you sometimes read about here. The bathrooms and showers are not particularly nice. Not dirty just older and institutional.

The one thing is that the college in my experience has been very receptive to problems, like one call and it’s fixed. That was a lot different from my own experience at a large state flagship.

My D told me recently that there are always things to do on weekends but she doesn’t always have time to participate, but she and her friends seem happy to just hang out and relax.