Colgate University Top Questions

Starting answering Colgate University is an amazing environment with exceptional academics, a beautiful campus, incredible faculty and students, many opportunities for involvement, and overall is a really fun and enjoyable atmosphere. There are a plethora of different classes offered to the students. Any given student could take a wide assortment of classes ranging from a class in neuroscience to one in performance arts . Similarly, students are granted access to a number of resources provided by the campus. Aside from the conventional resources like the library and food services, a student can also experience resources such as the various technology labs, the museum in the Ho Science Center (which even has a dinosaur egg on display), and so much more. The academic and research opportunities are endless. Likewise, there are multitude of opportunities for involvement here at Colgate. For instance, I am involved in the SAT tutoring program, admissions, funding initiatives for the school, and various other philanthropy groups. I even have been able to become certified in Suicide prevention! Aside from the areas I am involved with, there are so many other opportunities, clubs, activities to participate in. Just to name a few there are opportunities with sports at the club and intramural levels. One could also partake in activities such as Student Government, the Colgate Activities Board , or Greek life if he or she were to be interested in event planning and leadership opportunities, in general. There are also chances to get involved with the arts, by either participating in an acapella group, a play, a theater group, taking one of the many art classes offered, the choir, or dance groups. Since Colgate is a smaller school it is very simple to partake and inquire about these various activities. The smaller size is also conducive to students being able to make a greater impact on the institution and are easily able to contact and meet with different members of the administration. Here at Colgate, the students' voices really do matter. Overall, Colgate University is a truly wonderful, intimate, and enjoyable atmosphere that offers it's students so many incredible opportunities. I could not be happier!

I'm the ninth person in my family to come to colgate and I have grown up going to colgate events and always knew it was where I wanted to go, and in my third year I would not change a single thing about my experience here and I regret nothing. best decision of my life. I spend a lot of time at the chapel, which may seem dorky but i have met some pretty interesting people there, and most of them aren't actual jesus freaks and do go out and party 3 nights a week. Biggest controversy recently? that would have been the racist comments posted on the school newspaper website, but the campus came together and had a not completely successful discussion but it was surprising to see how many people came out to show their support to denounce the comments. Hamilton is 100{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} a college town, the university is deeply invested in the "downtown" and supports many of the businesses there. Students complain about evenly between campus safety (campo) and reslife, the residential life office which is in charge of everyone's housing arrangements. But the best thing about Colgate, is how willing and supportive alumni are for students, alumni usually do support their Alma Mater, but at Colgate if you find someone who also went their they will usually go out of their way to help you with an internship, career advice, maybe a job, and all they usually ask for is a story about your time at Colgate or to tell them what is going on at 'gate. As for size, it is pretty small, but there are just enough people that you can meet someone new everyday, and it is small enough that you don't feel alone, if you don't run into one person on the quad between classes I would be surprised.

Colgate is a party school with a good academic reputation. The school tries to provide 'alternatives to drinking' but lets be real, how many movies and trivia nights can you really go to before your bored to death with them.

Colgate kids are competitive, in both the classroom and outside of it and the Colgate mantra of "work hard, play harder" absolutely rings true. The natural beauty on this campus is unparalleled, and after going to a school this small I cannot imagine going to something as large and impersonal as a state school. I love saying hello to 10 kids I know on morning walk to class. There definatly is a 'Colgate Type' though, and those who do not fit the mold would probably have a much better college experience somewhere else.

Colgate is perfect. You can still walk across campus and not recognize a sinlge person at certain times, and in other situations you'll know everyone in the room. The town of Hamilton revolves around Colgate. Its super safe and theres always tons to do. Colgate fosters a family-oriented feeling among students and alumni that lasts way beyond graduation.

The big picture is a small one at Colgate. The school's community is a small and friendly one. Students are able to create strong friendships with their peers and are able to create relationships with professors. Students are especially able to form strong friends with their dorm mates as it is often too cold to venture out of your housing. But the indoors can be fun, as most students are drunk during a good portion of th week. If you want to avoid alcohol, you can, but with much difficulty at Colgate. The upside of this is that if you don't have much work one night, you can always find people to party and get drunk with it. All around, good times.

Colgate is a great school with strong academics. Even though some people have never heard of it, those who have know its a good school. Being a fairly small school (2800) but having Division I athletics, Colgate has some identity issues with itself. Its caught somewhere between the NESCAC small schools with serious academics and the big athletic powerhouse universities. It's kind of crunchy, but at the same time its a very preppy student body. There is no shortage of wealthy kids at Colgate. It's a beautiful campus, but the huge hill that its built on makes moving around a pain sometimes. The center of campus is definitely the academic quadrangle with the chapel on it, but only freshman can really live near this. Juniors have to live down the hill, about a 15 minute walk, and many seniors live off-campus. As most liberal arts schools do, Colgate gets itself off on issues like diversity and global warming. The administration seems fairly reasonable and the President even has open office hours, but it is a bureaucracy like any other school. For freshmen and sophomores, Frank dining hall is the main place to eat. Food is decent but nothing exceptional and after a semester students have had more than enough of it. Colgate brings alot of very interesting speakers to campus. One of my favorites was D'nesh D'souza. I'm not even sure if thats how you spell it.

Colgate is just right in almost every sense. It is a liberal arts college but a university at the same time, making it one of the largest liberal arts colleges and one of the smallest universities. The intro classes tend to be on the larger side (anywhere from 40 to 150 students) but upper level classes are usually no bigger than 30 (as small as 6). Additionally, some classes are discussion based and others are lectures. You can therefore choose classes based on the size you want and the type of learning that best suits you. Hamilton is the picturesque college town, with everything catering to the wants and needs of the student body. There is at least 1 of everything in what we refer to as "downtown." But the seemingly isolated area of central New York adds to the closeness of the Colgate community.

Although it may appear that Colgate is too small, with a student body of 2800 students, the size is just right. Professors are accessible, many taking students out to class dinners at the Colgate Inn or Merrill House. Colgate is located in the adorable village/town of Hamilton, NY. Yes, the nearest mall is 45 to 60 minutes away, but this allows for great stuff to go on right ON CAMPUS. Students take the "Colgate Cruiser" downtown to go out to eat, study at the barge, go out at night, grocery shopping.

When people start the college search a lot of people are concerned with going to a large school. I always saw myself at a large school but Colgate is not even three thousand students which may seem small in comparison to large state universities but if you're worried about seeing too many familiar faces, don't be. Every day I see a new face and when you're out at night its always nice to go out and always have someone there that you know. That brings me to the students. School Pride is overwhelming at Colgate. I remember one day as a parent commented on how many Colgate sweatshirts were worn around campus. I would attribute this pride to both the location, range of students and the university's goal to create campus wide involvement and pride.