Smith vs. Whitman vs. Bard vs. Skidmore vs. Sarah Lawrence vs. BU

mini
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:17:38 +0000

Whitman is a fine, fine school, and it is in my general neighborhood. (only 5 hours a way, but Whitman is five hours a way for everyone! LOL!) But it’s not Smith. It’s a fine liberal arts college, not very diverse (not just racially/ethnically, but in terms of economics), with lots of distributional requirements, in a very rural area. (the only thing other thing in the neighborhood, other than wineries, is the state pen.) I know many lawyers in the Seattle area who did their undergrad at Whitman.

But it just isn’t nearly as intellectually exciting as Smith. Folks forgot that Smith is not liberal arts college that happens to be all women; it is a women’s college that happens to teach the liberal arts. BIG difference.

For Discovery Weekend, make sure to attend several of the student research presentations - and then imagine yourself making one four years from now.