My daughter is a current sophomore at Sweet Briar and loves it. I asked her after her first year if she had made the right choice in colleges and she said definitely. The campus is gorgeous with many beautiful historic buildings amidst nearly 3,000 acres of nature with 20 miles of hiking trails, two lakes and a top-notch equestrian center. She’s an Engineering major there, a program which is ABET-accredited. The student body is about 500 and growing as enrollment continues on the rise. Small class sizes where the profs know the students by name, so she definitely does not feel overwhelmed like some of her friends who went to big state universities.
The Dean of Student Life changed in 2021 and is now Dean Greenstein, who I’ve met personally a number of times and is a good guy who really cares and is doing great things for the kids. I’m sorry for the experience you had with the previous dean, but seems she is long gone and it’s nothing like that there now.
Admissions Blog: Q&A with Dean of Students Kerry Greenstein – September 30, 2021
Most important to me, it’s also very affordable – even for out-of-state families like we are – with a total price about half the cost of other small liberal arts colleges she was accepted to like Mount Holyoke. And their financial strength keeps growing as their enrollment, donations, endowment, and bond ratings all continue to rise.