<p>For Chickens – my Muhlenberger is a theater major, hard working student, very involved in activities and leadership in high school. She has a warm group of gal pals, but is missing male friendships which were very important to her in high school. Her class ended up almost 70/30 women to men. The theater department is very large, but auditions are open and some of her friends outside the major have been able to get involved. There is LOTS of theater activity of every stripe. She will be a tour guide come the spring and at that point I am sure will be able to answer SO many questions about Muhlenberg. She has been delighted with her faculty and found them very accessible – many of them she calls by their first names.</p>
<p>My Denisonian is an introvert, physics major who immediately found a lovely niche of offbeat pals, and raves about the ease of communication with faculty. She has spent lots of time in the English department and loves the faculty there – will end with a minor as lab classes (and the prospect of two sets of comprehensive examinations senior year) made it hard to complete the double major. At one point when she was struggling to schedule a needed prereq in English, the department chair in Physics (who was on sabbatical that semester) stopped her in the hall to say he had heard about the issue and was trying to find a work around. So this whole LAC schtick about the advantages of being known and not just a face in a big sea seems to be real and not a myth! She studied in Bath England one summer with a faculty member from the English Department in a program that made me green with envy-- Jane Austen was one class, and the other British sci fi and fantasy literature. </p>
<p>Best to your student in the search.</p>