Vassar College Top Questions

I like Vassar a lot.

Don't come to Vassar looking for a husband, relationships are almost non-existent, while drunken late night hookups seem to be the goal of every weekend night out. Surprisingly enough for such a traditionally feminist school the off kilter ratio has led to a somewhat mistreat of women. Men here believe they can throw away any gal that gets to complicated because there will be two or three more waiting to take here place.

Vassar's campus is gorgeous and, even if I get really fed up with the student body, I'd do it all over again just to see the trees bloom one more time in the spring. If you get tired of the people or the classes, go for a walk! You'll never find a more beautiful place!

Overall, Vassar is great. I would be careful not to become too complacent with your hallmates and not go out and meet new people- that was my mistake, and now I feel a little suffocated by my very insular group of friends. There are lots of cool people here, don't limit yourself to just a few- also, try hanging out with people who maybe don't look like you or dress like you. The diversity of personality here is great and it should be taken advantage of.

I have had a really great experience at Vassar. I would recomment it to anyone, but it is by no means the perfect institution. In a lot of ways what makes Vassar great is how self aware it is. Everyone who is a part of the school understands its flaws, both flaws innate in it being a private institution, and other, more specific flaws. I am getting a great education here and meeting friends I know I will keep throughout life. I have also learned so much about myself through my experienced here, both social and academic.

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There are many different lifestyles that you can encounter here at Vassar. You could end up loving this school or hating it. I don't think there are people that are particuarly ambivalent about it.

it's a gorgeous campus

Coming to Vassar was the best decision of my life. The opportunities that were awarded to me here are unbelievable. I have conducted orchestras, worked for the foundation director of a major non-profit, done one-on-one research with the world's leading scholars, studies philosophy, literature, languages and the arts. The resources and the possibilities are endless!

Whatever dining service you go with, make sure they get Cracklin' Oat Bran.

Vassar is really good at selling itself. Be careful not to buy too much into what they say at the info session and the pretty tour under the longest no longer free standing branch by the hogwarts-esque library. Vassar is a great school with great opportunities but it's not the happy rainbows and cupcakes fairyland admissions makes is out to be.

I love this school so come if you're considering it. It has its problems but so does every school! There is no such thing as a perfect school so don't fall into that trap please. Wherever you go you'll find SOMETHING you don't like about it trust me. Vassar may have its issues but at least apathy here is not absolute in the fact that if there is a problem SOMEBODY somewhere is talking and complaining about it. It just doesn't go under the radar and that's what I like about Vassar. It atleast TRIES to be that perfect place for students, which is why I kept coming back every year....

I love Vassar College!

I've been very happy in my four years here, but I'm aware of how different college is from The Real World. I'm ready to be totally blown away by reality - I don't think there's too much REALITY here . . . but it's a great place to become hungry for experience in The Real World.

Vassar is a great place, and it's mostly what you make of it. It can provide you some of the best experiences of your life and some of the people you'll ever want to find. The education is unsurpassed, the architecture is beautiful, the social scene is personal and relaxing, and the college experience is neither monotonous nor suffocating. Especially if you're a bit weird, creative, off-beat, yet unpretentious or just intelligent and mild-mannered but you want some oddball friends, this is the place for you. Frat boys and Daughters of the Confederacy need not apply.

The admissions office was unbelievably rude to me once when I was applying, and my mother called there a week later and they were rude to her too. But you don't have to deal with them after you're admitted, and they're not a great reflection of the school as a whole. Also, for some reason Freshman are TERRIFIED of the all-female dorm, Strong, which has never ceased to baffle me, since I love it. It's a clean, calm dorm with a lot of nice rooms and nice people, not a lesbian dungeon where no boys may enter and from which no female will ever escape! (And would they really be *that* upset about not getting to share a bathroom with boys? )