Mount Holyoke RD 2024

sdelles
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:18:41 +0000

Hello! I’m also happy to answer any questions about Mount Holyoke College. I’m in the class of 2021 and am an environmental studies major and German minor. Choosing a college was very difficult for me, and I ended up deciding on Mount Holyoke right on May 1st in 2017 out of eight acceptances - I did receive the trustee scholarship which played a big factor financially. I’m very grateful that I made the decision I did, because Mount Holyoke has played a huge role in helping me grow as a person both academically and interpersonally. A bit about my involvement on campus: I competed on the dressage team my first two years of college before taking a break this year (although I still ride at the stables), write for the Mount Holyoke News, lead hikes for the Outing Club, have played in Flute Choir, taken a LOT of courses off campus at UMass and one at Amherst College, and studied abroad both in fall 2019 and over my past two summers - both summer study abroad trips funded by MHC.

Also, just because I saw a bus question earlier, the PVTA is free to travel on and very convenient going to Amherst (the route is MHC - Hampshire - Amherst College/Center - UMass and then back). The bus comes every thirty minutes on the week days and while it can sometimes be difficult to bounce from college to college on the same day, it isn’t too challenging to take classes off-campus. Transportation to NoHo can be a bit more time consuming. However, on weekdays the 39E runs between Smith and MHC which gets you to Northampton in 20-30 minutes. The only problem is it isn’t as frequent (I think it runs hourly but not late into the evening). On the weekends, you have to do a bus transfer at Hampshire to get to NoHo which takes more time. It hasn’t ever really been a problem for me, though, because I personally prefer Amherst because the restaurants are cheaper and really good!

@LottaEjder @Dashwoods1811