Help Wanted

[g0ldenr0ad]

Please sell me (or don't, please be brutally honest) on the following schools:

• Cedar Crest College, Penn.
• Chatham College, Penn.
• St. Joseph College, Conn.
• Meredith College, NC
• Simmons College, MA

Comments

[sammysam]

I don't know about the others, but I really enjoyed Chatham when I was there. Small school, I love the city of Pittsburgh, it is a college town (CMU, Pitt, Carlow, Duquense, and Point Park are just down the road) but Chatham is in a very nice neighbohood. All the professors I had there were fantastic (I was majoring in global policy studies and spanish while I was there) the dorms were nice and there is readily available off-campus apartments and stuff, also they do have apartments for upper class just on the edge of campus. If you like working out, they have a brand new fitness center. It's coed in it's graduate programs (especially education) and a few random guys may show up in higher level courses (I had three seminars that had a few male education grad students in them). I loved the all-girls school atmosphere though, was a nice change from high school and very different from where i go now. It's not a religious based school, though there is a chapel and there are a lot of churches near by, plus it is right between Shady Side and Squirrel Hill (SH is a very Jewish neighborhood).
If there are classes you are interested in that they don't offer at Chatham, they are partnered with Pitt and CMU so you can go there to take them (a lot of students I knew did that for languages, especially at Pitt, because Chatham only offers degrees in Spanish, German, and French, as far as I recall). It's also a pretty liberal school there, as opposed to Carlow (which used to be all girls, and is now a coed-Catholic university).

I had reasons to leave that had nothign to do with school itself, and if I had hte opportunity I would go back there in a heartbeat.I miss it a lot, and it was great to walk through it again this summer when I was visiting a friend who just started business school at cmu.

I hope this helped at all :) Chatham is a great place to go :)
Good luck on your decision!