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g0ldenr0ad in womenscolleges

Help Wanted

Jan 20, 2007 21:00

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

why women's colleges?, meredith college, saint joseph college, transferring, mary baldwin college, simmons college, queer issues, religious atmospheres, *questions from prospectives (specific), chatham college, cedar crest college

Comments 17

beginning January 21 2007, 02:36:11 UTC

First, just as a nitpicky thing, we don't settle for community colleges. They are not leper colonies, and are completely what you make of them.

Aside from that:

Saint Joseph is going through a rough patch right now as far as publicity is concerned, but it's a fine institution and one of the few small women's colleges that has been experiencing a huge increase in applications and public interest. It is a traditional Catholic school - no men on campus past a certain hour (I think 10?), large devout population, lots of religious course offerings - but is also very accepting and open to all students. Being local and having a lot of friends transfer there, I can tell you it's not at all a place where confident non-Catholics feel uncomfortable ( ... )

beginning January 21 2007, 03:06:26 UTC

Oh, and reading back, I figured you'd be interested in knowing this:

1) According to a recent poll, Hartford has the 7th largest queer population in the country (by percentage of population)

2) West Hartford is the most Jewish municipality in the country, not including places like Kiryas Joel and such (again, percentage of population)

The Jewish population will be more evident. I believe there are 9 or 10 synagogues within West Hartford, and then dozens in surrounding towns. My town's Jewish population is mostly Conservative, but I think West Hartford is majority Reform, with very large Conservative and Orthodox minorities. The Jewish Ledger is an important local publication, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford is very active and a great resource for the local population (http://www.jewishhartford.org/). You'd had a hard time finding a more welcoming place if you're really into your faith and heritage.

g0ldenr0ad January 21 2007, 03:41:27 UTC

Thank you so much for the info :)

burnbabyburn January 21 2007, 09:52:11 UTC

what are the other top ones for largest queer pop?

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sammysam January 21 2007, 02:46:10 UTC

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 ( ... )

femmegrrlprof January 21 2007, 03:22:46 UTC

I was also going to plug Chatham. It's a great college and there used to be a Hillel orgaization there that was fairly active. I graduated from Chatham almost 10 years ago and still feel like it was a worthwhile educational experience.

vancowhore January 21 2007, 07:00:49 UTC

I, too, would like to plug Chatham! I'm currently a junior at the college and I freaking love it. I love the personal attention I get from the staff, I love the abundance of help they've given me when I've been in tight spots, and I've just never seen a staff that tries so hard--and I've attended two other universities and looked into tons more. I'm not from the Pittsburgh area but came to love the college and the city almost immediately ( ... )

vancowhore January 21 2007, 16:05:35 UTC

I also want to mention that I did transfer to Chatham and every single one of my credits transferred over. Chatham is incredible when it comes to accepting credits from other colleges, they made it ridiculously easy for me to transfer.

g0ldenr0ad January 22 2007, 00:08:15 UTC

That is definitely a plus! Thank you :)

dancerlbv January 21 2007, 10:32:07 UTC

Well, looks like you haven't heard about Cedar Crest Yet. I just started here in the beginning of te fall '06 term, but as soon as I got here I new I was gonna love it. The campus is beautiful. The classes are challenging but not impossible, and the people are great, very open and accepting. Pretty much any one would be happy to accept you as a friend, and there's people from all cutural, religious and ethnic backgrounds, and clubs and groups to support them all ( ... )