Social life?

nyc
Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:57:27 +0000

Teriwtt, while I understand that none of the campus descriptions is fully accurate, they often do capture a campus’ flavor or feel. My brother’s alma mater, Notre Dame, is very much a predom White, politically conservative jock school. There are, without a doubt, urm students, more progressive students and evne those uninterested in sports on campus, but the general description is true and many would advise a student seeking diverse and liberal experience to look elsewhere or at least to proceed with caution.

Not than M’berg is ND, but a school where students tend to dress up/dress preppy, where a significant portion of the sudent body is involved in Greek life, and where most of the quirky students are clustered in a department in which D has little or no interest isn’t a really good match for D. And as a realist, I know that D is unlikely to find everything she want on one campus, so the wisest course is to cast a wide net, investigate and then whittle the list down to a managable number to visit/apply.

I fully expect most of the students at any pvt LAC/uni to be affluent and White, that’s why we’re investigating other “fit” factors (progressive politically, hippish, more than just a handful of black students, not too far from home, etc.).