Franklin and Marshall College Top Questions

The city of Lancaster is in the middle of Pennsylvania farm country. There's not a whole lot to do besides go to parties.

According to Forbes, it's the 24th most expensive college in the nation and you can tell! The advantages are that we have excellent professors and great facilities. The biggest disadvantage is that a majority of the students here come from wealthy families and can be a little stuck up and unaware that not everyone at F&M can afford Ugg boots or Prada bags. F&M is a great school, but you have to judge whether or not it's worth all the debt. If you're going for pre-law or pre-med it's probably worth it.

The worst thing about my school is that it is not in New York City (which is where I grew up), so even though some may call Lancaster a city, I feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere by comparison.

The worst thing about Franklin and Marshall College is the admitted want to cause students to struggle. It is extremely frustrating to work as hard as students do, to only be defeated by a profesoor in the end. It is one thing to try and "knock out the weak students" but it is another to completely discourage a large group of students. It is not appropriate to cause students to constantly second-guess themselves. College should teach students how to succeed rather than crush their dreams.