Sarah Lawrence: The Big Picture
Very little "school pride" in the traditional sense, although it seems that many people remark on the novelty of SLC, which they admire a lot. I like the size, but it's often like a bubble, where you often see the same people every day. No college town. Most of Sarah Lawrence is a dichotomy between pretentious idiots and actually smart, thinking people. "Anything unusual" does not even being to describe Sarah Lawrence, which can sometimes be wonderful and other times exceedingly annoying.
Sarah Lawrence Academic Life
Academics at Sarah Lawrence are most definitely its saving grace: huge amounts of class participation, no seminars larger than about 15 students, few lectures above 45. Individual conferences (mandatory) with professors every other week. SLC is DEFINITELY geared toward learning for its own sake, which is honestly why I chose to go here in the first place--also, job-wise this school basically prepares you for a bunch more years of Graduate study. Besides the general pretentiousness, which is fairly rampant, Sarah Lawrence has an ideal academic system, of course with its problems; but students are free to take classes they enjoy and are thus likely to discuss them outside of class (which is fairly frequent).
Sarah Lawrence's Student Body
Sexuality is a huge part of SLC, above almost any other topic. In terms of other groups, I would say for the most part it's a bunch of rich white kids discussing other people's problems. Very leftist, which is fine, but rarely very committed to causes, and usually not very knowledgeable about the issues. SLC is not extremely diverse racially, but it's not really segregated.
Sarah Lawrence Student Activities + Social Life
The social scene is broken down individually in dorms, no real student space on campus. People do fun things, but generally the social scene is fairly lame. Dating at SLC = no go. One of our favorite slogans about the SLC social scene: "We party like you pre-game."
