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3.5 stars

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May 25, 2007

The academic environment at Mount Holyoke is really outstanding. It is an amazing, challenging place to learn. I think the fact that it's a women's college adds to the academic excellence. It's on a beautiful campus and many of the buildings themselves are old and impressive, including a good number of the dorms. Socially, it can be very isolating. It is in a small town and without a car, it is not easy to get around to the outlying areas, even though they tout the merits of the intercollege bus system. It's not that helpful, really. Staying on campus is okay, if you really really like hanging out with nothing but women all the time. I appreciate the academic merits of single-sex education, but socially, it often felt like a teeny-bopper sleepover. All in all, it's an amazing school. But don't let the fact that it's nothing but women weigh too lightly in your decision, if that might matter to you.

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3 stars

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February 19, 2007

The academics at Mount Holyoke are incredible, though don't expect the student political activism to be impressive.

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2.5 stars

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January 26, 2007

Mount Holyoke was a comfortable, supportive environment for many women. It's a beautiful campus with a very liberal atmosphere, accepting of all cultures and lifestyles. The academic reputation is solid and the professors excellent.
Course selection and majors are somewhat limited - probably to be expected from a small liberal arts college. The location is very isolated; best to take advantage of the 5-college partnership that allows you to take courses at other campuses in the region. Many students spend a semester away, either at a different college or in an overseas program. This is a great way to appreciate the benefits Mount Holyoke while getting a break from all of it's drawbacks.

I personally would not choose MHC again.

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0.5 stars

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December 19, 2006

I dislike a number of things about Mount Holyoke including their needs-based admissions policy that results in a the majority of students coming from privileged rich girl backgrounds where they think they just deserve every A to be given to them because their daddy is paying full tuition for all 4 years. I dislike the fact that faculty pamper students and some actually call students, their girls as if MHC were some kind of finishing school for the rich like it was in the past when MHC women always married Amherst men. I dislike the party-girl atmosphere. Academics is not a priority for the majority of students and those who care still try to drag their competition into partying and other activities that will hurt their ability to be successful academically. And I dislike the lack of real activism on the campus. Students take up silly little 10 minute issues and confuse the local sexual politics for world issues/issues that really matter to millions and decide if they live or die. While students are busy making penises out of the snow or seniors are running naked to convocation, children and women are being raped and killed in other parts of the world that they often care to ignore and even closer to home....right in the next town over, Chicopee, people live in hooverville cardboard houses and struggle to make enough to eat each day. I like a lot of the good faculty and the campus is very pretty I suppose (though I prefer many pretty university campuses despite some of the gray buildings) and I enjoyed getting to know some of the international student population (though they are mostly extremely wealthy privileged women as well), but most of the students I found unbearable and many people agree with me and transfer out in their sophomore year (and not because there isn't much to do...that would be a dumb reason since there is plenty enough to learn and a wonderful college bus system will take you to the commercial areas including Hadley with theatres, etc.) Okay, I've said my peace.

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