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Springfield College - The Lake

Springfield College

4.3(4 reviews)
2.0 mi

My daughter is in her second year here and so far I'm very happy with the experience she is having…read moreat Springfield. The college's motto of "Mind, Body, Spirit" truly shines through in academics and throughout campus life. I love all of the clubs and activities that are available to students - especially how welcoming they are and that there are clubs that focus on mental and emotional health as well as teams and club sports that promote physical health and activity. The campus has activities for students nearly every day and evenings on the weekends, and the Bingos are super fun and are really popular with the students. The precamp program offered to incoming freshmen is incredible - my daughter made great friends there and it was an awesome experience for her. She has also participated in Leadership Training opportunities that have been incredible as well. The Springfield Campus is very clean and attractive with grassy areas, flowering trees and plants, a lake, well maintained buildings, a modern library, up-to-date athletic facilities, and a comfortable student union. Although parts of the city of Springfield are rough, this college campus feels safe. The campus security department does a great job and my daughter feels very safe walking on campus at any time of day or night. My daughter is in the PT program and I am very impressed with the quality of academics at Springfield. I feel that she is being well prepared for her future career, her professors are accessible and helpful, and the tutoring and opportunities for academic support have been outstanding. It's also pretty awesome that Springfield offers an accelerated DPT program where she will be able to complete the program in 6 years rather than 7, saving her an entire year of tuition. Food at the Cheney Dining Hall is not bad, though my daughter wishes there were more consistent choices, like having a stir fry station available daily, or having a grill with burgers/hotdogs/grilled cheese/chicken sandwiches/fries available daily at lunch and dinner would be great as well. The dorms are very varied, with traditional dorm rooms with shared bathrooms for the floor, to suites, to townhouses. Some dorms have elevators, and a few have AC. The administration at Springfield is very supportive, enthusiastic, and is doing a great job leading the college. President Mary Beth Cooper knows many students by name and attends most of the campus events. I'm so glad my daughter chose Springfield and I highly recommend this school.

My daughter is a competitive swimmer and swim has taken us a few times to Springfield College and…read moremany other colleges in New England. I can share this is one of the worst college pool facilities we have visited. It's old, super uncomfortable bleachers, no air flow in the building so it's hot. No snack bar or vending machines. The bathrooms this visit were not maintained during a long competition. Usually the lot is shared with a basketball tournament so a chaotic parking lot. It does offer a lot of vantage points.

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Mount Holyoke College - Gate

Mount Holyoke College

3.8(22 reviews)
10.2 mi

#65/2016 We were…read moreunloading the U-Haul bringing in all my sister's stuff and uh, "Where'd she go?" Sweaty and dirty after dragging her steamer trunk and tons of boxes up the stairs to her "temp double" room at Pearson's, we finally stumbled upon her: At a tea for the President, my sister looking perfect and graceful in a navy blue gabardine pencil skirt, heels, silk blouse and pearls. Everyone was dressed up, looking cool as cucumbers. Dirty and annoyed, I wiped perspiration and a wet strand of hair off my forehead, laughed and said, "Ha ha ha, I'm glad *I'm* not going here!" (I really wasn't the tea and equestrian type. I was headed for Fordham, UVA or Middlebury to learn Farsi and go to museums). Not so fast. My parents footing the bill wanted both their girls going to MHC. There wasn't much of a campus life (I rolled my eyes at the caravans of boys from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth who'd descend every weekend in this artificial way to socialize) but I didn't care about that. I was there for a purpose, to learn. I threw myself into studies. I was either in the chem lab, at the college radio station spinning records or reading 6 or 8 novels a week in my dorm room for English and French lit classes, churning out papers. Classes were small, often 15-20 women at a long oblong table. The largest class was about 75 at a "weeder" Organic chemistry class, the chem program being the second-ranked undergraduate chemistry program in the country behind MIT. Garrett Goodyear, Peter Viereck, Joseph Brodsky, Shirley Chisholm, John Irving- these are the professors who taught at Mount Holyoke. I took for granted lots of schools had luminaries like that- wrong. You might have Kissinger "teaching" at Georgetown but he would make one brief appearance and let the TA teach the class. These amazing people actually taught at Mount Holyoke (writer John Irving was booted for sexual harassment before I got there). The campus is beautiful, the professors are top-notch. You'll get a fine education and appreciate it much more when you're older. You'll poke fun at the nutty things like required PE (they are not kidding about PE credits needed to graduate and yes, my canoe class was taught by a former Olympic athlete) and institutions like milk 'n' cookies every night. But, you'll be the first in line when they open the kitchen doors at 10pm for a study snack. You'll also get tired of people asking if you took a swim in the lady pond (no) or if there are a lot of lesbians on campus (yes). You won't know many of your classmates' names because all the professors address the students as "Miss [surname] so you'll laugh when you run into someone and say, "Hello Miss Grasso!" "Well, hello Miss O'Hara! Did you finish the paper on King Lear?" Surrounded by some of the most intelligent and driven women in the world (Mount Holyoke has an extremely diverse student body from 100+ countries), it was humbling but made you run even harder to achieve. I never worked so hard academically and the campus' isolation and elitism were sometimes suffocating. For my mental well-being and interests, I set a goal to escape for junior year abroad and took off for Paris; it saved me. But in typical Mount Holyoke fashion, I got credit for courses I took at the Sorbonne but the grades weren't factored into my GPA- really? You can also take classes at any of the 4 area colleges including Amherst, (fellow Seven Sister) Smith, Hampshire or UMass. My sister practically lived at Amherst; I took a couple classes at UMass. I like Mount Holyoke for many reasons. I dislike its profile and reputation still aren't as high as other colleges and universities like Yale and Harvard but that is slowly changing for the better. I appreciate I had the good fortune of getting my undergraduate degree at Mount Holyoke and I recommend it for high-achieving women who want to make a mark on the world and challenge themselves.

Send your normal kid to MH and you will get back a monster in 4 years…read more plus we have a $150,000 bill.

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College of Our Lady of the Elms

College of Our Lady of the Elms

5.0(1 review)
4.7 mi

Keeshaun's dorm (121) has been such an inviting place to be. From the moment we stepped into his…read moreabode we were given nothing but luxuries. Treated like absolute kings. After given the tour (great tub by the way), we were asked if we needed any refreshments or snacks. We then sat in woe as he opens the window in order to make it a comfortable temperature. How nice! Would recommend.

From the owner: Elms College is a private Catholic coeducational liberal arts college founded in 1928 by the…read moreSisters of St. Joseph of Springfield, Massachusetts. Located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, Elms College grants associates, bachelors, master's degrees, certificates of advanced graduate study, and a doctor of nursing practice. Undergraduate programs include nursing, social work, biology, business, education, criminal justice, accounting, speech-language pathology, sports management, and computer information technology. Masters programs include education, nursing, business administration, management, accounting, healthcare leadership, autism spectrum disorders, and applied theology. Elms College also offers an accelerated second degree in nursing, as well as other accelerate degree completion programs in partnerships with Holyoke Community College, Springfield Technical Community College, Mount Wachusett Community College, Greenfield Community College, Quinsigamond Community College, and Berkshire Community College. The Elms College Blazers features fifteen different athletic teams for both men and women in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) including baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, volleyball, swimming, lacrosse, soccer, field hockey, and softball.

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