Yet another 'Chance Me' for Hamilton ED1

MrMom62
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:40:17 +0000

Being a parent, not a student, I don’t exactly have a ringside seat for the party scene, but I don’t think it’s a Hamilton issue, but rather an all-college issue. There are plenty of non-partiers in the regular dorms and everyone gets along fine with them, I don’t think it’s too hard to get paired up with non-partiers. And there’s no pressure to join in, plenty of non-party kids attend the parties and just have fun. Where the problem comes in is when you select a wellness dorm, everyone else thinks you’re judging them, therefore they get their back up before they get to know you.

It’s one thing thing to have a live and let live attitude, quite another to make it look like you’re too good to live with the regular people. Short of going to BYU or Liberty, it’s going to be pretty hard to get away from that. And Hamilton is a lot more laid back about it than most. Colgate, 30 mile down the road, is much more hard core party scene. Not to mention the #1 party school, Syracuse, an hour away.

As for the essay being optional, even if that is true, Hamilton is known as a writing school. No essay is ever truly optional. I wouldn’t chance my application by omitting it.