Our Bryn Mawr visit and some questions

shoboemom
Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:00:43 +0000

Thank you @midcenturyms. I didn’t mean to imply that the students were partying, just that they spent a great deal of time distracting one another with socializing instead of focusing on the work. That certainly happens around here sometimes too! And I can imagine that, with several excited freshmen hosting overnight visitors, that could have lent to the more ‘relaxed’ atmosphere for the night. So it may not have been typical. We have read a great deal about the school, and on paper, it had seemed almost perfect. Even visiting, I was ready to move in lol…but D and I were having different experiences there. I still keep trying to play up the positives of the school, it just seems like it could be such a great fit. It hits the checkboxes for her: non-party school, not a football rah-rah school, near a big city, small but in a consortium, smart students… I do hope that what she saw, that were negatives to her, aren’t truly the norm…and that is very possible…as I keep pointing out to her. She did like the people there, and we both found everyone to be very friendly! But since it was a few things that added up, with students seeming to be unaware of activities or events going on in the evenings, and the class that was not what she’d hoped for (which I know was one class, on one day) I don’t know that she’ll be able to shake that 1st impression.