Oberlin College Top Questions

Great college! Not recommended for conservatives or those easily offended. There is always something fun to do, and the people are absolutely amazing. Professors can be your best friends, and the campus is gorgeous.

If you don't want to be stuck in a two block radius, bring a car! Don't live in a first year hall.

that's all.

I love this place! It's an experience like none other!

Oberlin is great! You'll meet tons of interesting people once you get out of lectures (there aren't too many, don't worry)!

You can smoke everywhere

I hate this place. It is amazingly unfriendly to non-traditional students and students who are religious or are political moderates/conservative.

I love Oberlin. I started off in the Conservatory as a music performance major, but now I'm in the college. You can do almost anything you want here.

We've got TGIF! And COOPS!!! wonderful, self-sustaining student operating groups for housing and dining. Amazing food, cheaper and socially conscious.

Oberlin = awesome

For many students the co-op system at Oberlin provides an affordable and better-tasting dining option with the added bonus of an incredible community. I eat in Fairchild, the vegetarian/mostly vegan/no cane sugar co-op, and I can say completely certainly that I made the best decision of the last few years of my life when I checked the box saying I wanted to eat in a co-op. It provides me with a home away from my home away from home.

Before you decide sign your name to come to Oberlin, come visit and do the following: -Sit in on a few classes that interest you! (Very, very, very strong suggestion) -Visit and eat in a co-op, don't be shy, just come on in, it is free and you are welcome! (Bring the family) -talk to a few upperclassmen to get a feel for how Oberlin has molded them -talk to a few underclassmen to see how jazzed they are about their first years. -Check out more than one department that interests you. See what vibes you get.

fairchild

I eat in Pyle Co-op and it's awesome!

Oberlin is a great school, but it is very much a bubble. After spending a summer on a dude ranch in Colorado with a lot of deep South Texans, a member from a Detroit gang, some guys from Jamaica and a lot of other people from walks of life that I've never encountered before, I've changed my mind quite a bit about a lot of the types of people and things that are often looked down up or judged by Oberlin students. I've become a much more questioning, thoughtful, and open individual at Oberlin and I look forward to taking my experiences here into the "real" world!

I represent HARKNESS.

I am entering on behalf of Keep co-op. The sophomore slump at Oberlin can hit people pretty hard. Oberlin is kind of going through an identity crisis, where it's not sure whether it wants to be an Antioch or an Amherst, but for playing the middle, it's doing pretty well.

oberlin is a great place because u can find your niche, whatever that is... there is probably already a community of people here that are interested in the same kind of thing.

FAIRCHILD COOP RULES

I've been in Fairchild Co-op since I came here, and it's been great. The students do all the cooking, cleaning, administration, food buying, etc. The meals are generally very good, though occasionally disappointing. Last semester I was a head cook, and it was pretty thrilling to find that I could reliably prepare a great meal for 50 people. Fairchild is all vegetarian and largely vegan -- wonderful if you're a vegetarian who's tired of having to be cautious and ask about the ingredients when you eat. I've met most of my friends through the co-op.