Social Life/People at Bucknell

Pickwick
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:55:33 +0000

Like Morrismm I occassionally look in on the Bucknell site, since I have a daughter at Bucknell. First, she is a very happy camper with lots of friends, professors she knows well enough to call by first name, and a very (probably too) active social life. Now that I have kids at different colleges, I can see that what S was looking for was different than D. Not better, not worse. That is the trick - to find the fit. In my view, Bucknell is full of super bright, motivated kids, who mostly want to be sucessful in life, including financially. These kids often become engineers (a terrific and large engineering school) accountants, lawyers, etc. They drink a lot in their spare time and they tend to be a sociable group (half go greek). This is NOT your contemplate your navel type student body … the Bucknell kids don’t tend to spend most Saturday nights discussing Kalfka (this is a generalization, I’m sure there are some who do). If that is who you are (aka, my son-- who is also brilliant and wonderful, but not your Bucknell mold), this may not be the right fit - look to Oberlin, Vassar or Wesleyan. For D, she walked onto a beautiful campus (it really is spectacular), full of energetic, motivatated (and, strangely, remarkably attrative) kids, and it had her name written all over it. Its been a great experience for her.