Vassar College Top Questions

The open curriculum allowed students to design their own academic schedules, ensuring that each class was populated by people who actually wanted to be there (as opposed to simply being there because it was required of them). Moreover, Vassar's attitude of inclusiveness and acceptance made it a wonderful place to grow, learn and discover the world and yourself.

Vassar is the greatest school I could ever hope to find. People here are truly in love. We're in love with each other, in love with our campus, in love with this incredible place.

One aspect that I have really grown to love about Vassar is the acceptance of all economic levels into the community. Going to an expensive but VERY economically accomodating college has allowed me to interact with people of all classes, and accept all different types of people with open arms. Coming from New York City, I am used to the diversity, and its nice to come to such an economically, and creatively mixed atmosphere.

My senior year, a couple of my friends started a magazine called squirm. It is a journal of "smut and sensibility," exploring sex and sexuality, involving nudity and non-mainstream attitudes about sex. It was the first magazine of it's kind, but it was also, on campus, not a big deal. Why would it be? It was just a bunch of kids questioning things together. It was just what we did. What makes this different from other institutions? Well, it wasn't until years later that students at other academic institutions followed suit, and even that was, in some cases, with great limitations from the administration. For those institutions, it was a big deal. Those students did not have the good fortune of having an administration and faculty that supported and nurtured intellectual creativity, nor did they have the luxury of taking it for granted.

Vassar is truly an eclectic community of academics. Everyone's different and come from a huge number of states and countries, yet we're all Vassarians when it comes down to it. We're a work hard, party hard school - we have great parties and dances on the weekends, but once the week rolls around, you can hear a pin drop on campus it's so silent.

I really loved my time at Vassar, but you have to find the right fit for you. I initially thought I wanted to go to a big school in a city, like New York University. However, this ended up being the college experience I wanted. Vassar was slightly bigger than my high school, and allowed me a nice transition from high school to college (a transition that would have been way too difficult at a large university). However, there are always issues at any school. There have been classes that I had high hopes for that weren't very good, or professors that just didn't care about their students. But overall, Vassar was a wonderful experience.

I am really thrilled with my experience here. I have made wonderful friends, met some great professors, gotten a decent idea of what I want to do with myself and found something I am fascinated in learning about - and had a lot of fun. Of course I have also pulled some miserable all-nighters. I really wish that Vassar was more racially and economically diverse, like most private colleges, I think that the (on average) privileged status of the student body can skew the campus dynamics.

I LOVE THIS SCHOOL AND CRIED FOR A WEEK STRAIGHT DURING GRADUATION!

AS a rising senior, I am totally ready to be done. Recently the Vassar administration has decided to close a bunch of dorms and senior housing and admit the same number of students, leading to... a housing crisis. Vassar has also decided to go the un-environmentally friendly route of turning the food service into an all-you-can-eat buffet system, and renovate the dorms by removing all of the student cooking spaces. So you can now only eat their greasy buffet food (granted there are some alternatives... but they are always the same ones, and get a little tiresome) and ou have no place to cook for yourself.

We have a quidditch team.

The majority of students at Vassar are not happy.

Vassar changes people's opinions about what to expect and what to assume, or not to, about everyone. It's really changed the way I think.

Vassar really has something for everyone. We have wild partiers, quiet loners, geeks, jocks, writers, artists, whatever you want. What we do not have is a traditional large, loud, UC - school type campus - if you're looking for that, we can't offer it. Also, if you're not comfortable with "openly displayed" homosexuality, you may be uncomfortable here - we're very queer friendly, and take pride in that fact. But once again, most things are taken in stride here, and I can't think of a better place where it's ok to be yourself.

coed bathrooms are not very ackward if you own a bathrobe!

Damn it, tell those fuckers to stop cutting down the trees. And I think REsLife is the most unhelpful and ridiculous piece of administrative bullshit ever created Rich Horowitz you are a silly prick but you still can't make any part of the experience unworthy... it's just a tutorial on how to deal with assholes and a lesson on leaving diplomacy behind because it don't woik wif some o dem ijits.

There are always going to be the people who don't have to work as hard because they're already going into the family business, whose moms went here and contributed generously, and/or who happen to do fairly well in a sport at a time when Vassar decides that we want to do well in that sport too. Despite what admissions tells you, we're still a college. We still like getting lots of gift money and doing better in athletics. It's not fair, no, but it's a little bit more so than plenty of other schools. The best way to understand the atmosphere of the school is to come and do an overnight. You really get a sense of what goes on here, what the social interactions are like, and how students feel about the most recent Issues. Highly Recommended.

Vassar is a great place. Just be careful of the vegan station in the main dining hall, be prepared to search for a working public printer when you need one, and watch out for the squirrels. They're everywhere.

I'm disappointed with being here but I think I would feel that way about any college. I just want to leave and go be a techie.

just visit. it's the only way you'll ever understand.

Before I got to Vassar I'd heard a lot about a heavy drug presence on campus, particularly coke. I have to say, it's there somewhere--but if you don't want anything to do with it, you'll never see it.