My husband and I both graduated from Vassar and I wouldn’t use secluded to describe it. Actually, we recently visited Hamilton, Connecticut College and Bates with DS and neither of those campuses could you walk anywhere. Vassar has a coffee shop, a pizza joint, various other restaurants, a bank, a grocery store, post office, etc. literally a block or two off campus. Poughkeepsie has a mall, Target, Marshalls, etc a 10 min drive from campus. I never had a car (I’m from the midwest) but friends did and I could borrow it when I needed a mall trip. Also, Poughkeepsie has lots of restaurants, the walkway over the Hudson, and isn’t far from the Culinary Institute of America, Beacon, Rhinebeck, great hiking, etc. And a train directly to NYC. But there is plenty to do on campus to never need to leave on the weekend. I did field work at the local hospital’s NICU and in a 1st grade classroom. So if your worry is seclusion, I would put that aside! Happy to answer any other Vassar questions!
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