Social life?

teriwtt
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:48:48 +0000

Again, I will agree that there are not very many black students on campus, but I think you have to look past numbers and consider the interaction.

D1 attended Syracuse; lots of diversity and very Greek. But there wasn’t a lot of interaction between groups, especially the Greeks and non-Greeks. It had better diversity, but was more segregated.

At Muhlenberg, D2 says that, although there are definitely different cliques, there’s a healthy respect and lots of interaction - Greeks and non-Greeks are good friends. Belonging to one group doesn’t exclude one from having friends in other groups. I didn’t see this at Syracuse where D1 was Greek.

You eventually have to feel comfortable wherever you’re at, but I do think Muhlenberg is one of those schools that appears to be somewhat narrow in regards to student population, but those there definitely get along; there aren’t the turf wars you see on some campuses where there is a much larger diverse student body. So don’t let statistics purely guide your decision.