Mount Holyoke RD 2024

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Sat, 21 Mar 2020 01:02:46 +0000

I apologize if I offended anyone with my comments. I am not the one who is facing the steep four-year financial commitment represented by paying for college at Mount Holyoke. However, I think my advice to be aggressive in seeking other financial options before giving up on the opportunity to study at Mount Holyoke is sound.

Yes, there are other institutions that will provide the opportunity to earn a bachelor of arts degree. I suggest that you compare the student/faculty ratio at Mount Holyoke and that at the other school. Then consider the opportunity to do research with professors at the undergraduate level available at Mount Holyoke (such as working on research involving minerals from Mars with MHC’s Darby Dyar), the first-year seminars taught by senior professors, the opportunity to partake of the programs offered by several of the specialized centers at Mount Holyoke such as the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Miller Worley Environmental Center, the Washington Semester program and internships, the Lynk program that guarantees an internship to every student, and the study of original objects at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum that has been collecting since 1876 (it was founded during the same decade as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston). I consider many of the art objects there to be old friends because of the papers I wrote about them. Then imagine the person you might become at the end of four years at Mount Holyoke compared to you at the end of four years at the alternative institutions.

Congratulations to all who received an offer of admission to Mount Holyoke. This is a great achievement of which you should be proud. You may be amused that some of my classmates in the Class of 1970 have saved the letters offering admission that were sent in 1966 and have been sharing them online. They were highly prized then – and now.