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The fall 2020 acceptance rate for Hobart William Smith Colleges is 57%. That means, out of _____ applications received in 2020 , _____ students were offered admission. The number of males who applied was _____ vs the number of females which was _____.
What should every freshman at your school know before they start?
I would advise parents to be intimately involved in the college search process with their child. It is important to understand the needs and wants of your child when choosing the right college. I would therefore advise parents and students to decide what type of school they are looking for before visiting colleges by considering such characteristics as class sizes, accademic standards, campus activites, available financial resources, social life, distance from home, surrounding community, etc. This requires a fair amount of research to answer these questions. However, by taking into account all of these characteristics you can ensure that the choice that you make is the right one. Once the choice has been made, I would advise students to make the most of their college experience by being open and accepting to change. Entering the college environment can be scary and exciting at the same time. It is important to get involved and experience the resources that your college has to offer you. Many of the relationships made in college both socially and accademically will last a lifetime. Therefore it is important for parents to support their children and encourage them to explore their college environment to the fullest.
Read all 66 answers Describe the students at your school.
A wide variety of interests, perspectives and intellect, but all fairly friendly and open to conversation.
Read all 16 answers What kind of person should not attend this school?
Someone who likes big classes and wants to blend into the crowd or is very job-oriented will not fit in here. Also, the LGBT community is fairly small.
Read all 15 answers What do you brag about most when you tell your friends about your school?
The beautiful campus. The Quad is huge and there are always people on it. The campus is right on a lake that I wouldn't trade for anything.
Read all 13 answers Describe your favorite campus traditions.
econmics
Read all 12 answers Describe how your school looks to someone who's never seen it.
My school is beautiful, full of friendship, and full of surprises.
Read all 11 answers What kind of person should attend this school?
As a girl, you must be comfortable being in a male dominated social structure. Since, there are only fraternities and no sororities, all big parties are ran by men. In other words, all big parties call for girls to dress slutty. A girl must come to HWS confident and not willing to fall into the traps of Hobart men.
Read all 11 answers What do you consider the worst thing about your school? Why?
A lot of drinking goes on so if you're not cool with that it can be hard to find people to hang out with. It is possible, but it just takes a longer time, and I felt very lonely at the beginning of freshman year.
Read all 11 answers Here's your chance: Say anything about your college!
The small campus, more attention on me, I love it. I dont have to wait weeks to see a professor but that can also be a bad thing if you want to avoid them,
Read all 10 answers What's unique about your campus?
classes are very small, and the professors actually care about your learning.
Read all 10 answers What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?
how hypocritical and unresponsive the administration is.
Read all 10 answers What's the most frustrating thing about your school?
It's very politically apathetic, with a disdain toward liberal politics from the administration and many students. Desires to be more enviromentally minded, but had difficulty doing so. The students are all mostly of one type: white, rich, uncaring, and conservative.
Read all 9 answers What is your overall opinion of this school?
Some of the greatest things about Hobart include:
-The beautiful campus
-The variety of people
-The variety of athletics and intramural activities
-It's environmental awareness
-The personable faculty
-The small class sizes
If I could change one thing, it would be the presence of academic goals. At a liberal arts college, the goals tend to cause students to take bull-shit classes just because the goals tell them to. They often lower the student's gpa and tends not to diversify the student as they are closed minded to and generally pissed off about the class.
I believe that Hobart is just the right size, but some say that it is too small as you often are forced to see people on a regular basis that you really don't want to see.
Often times, when they hear that I attend HWS, people say that they have never heard of it.
I spend most of my time in my room or doing things involving football, but that is not typical
of a student here. When the weather is nice, students spend all day playing Frisbee or enjoying the sun on the quad. There are myriad talks to go to regarding almost anything that you could be interested in too.
Geneva is definitely a college town and the economy thrives on the presence of the college students. There is not a ton to do, but most large chains are present. Geneva is close to several larger areas, including Rochester, Syracuse and Ithaca.
The administration here is extremely involved with the students. As a transfer student from Clarkson University, though, I found that the financial aid department was not quite as personable as at other institutions.
There is a great amount of school pride on campus. The turn out for sports is always great and school apparel is warn with extreme frequency.
At HWS, there is a divide between Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Though we share the same campus, classes, dorms, etc.., we are technically two separate schools. We have deans of Hobart and deans of William Smith. Also, we have separate student governments. The men's athletic teams are the Hobart Statesmen and the women's teams are the William Smith Herons. But, this is about as far as the separation goes.
The most frequent student complaint is the cost of attendance.
Read all 1 answers What is the stereotype of students at your school?
The stereotypes about HWS students include rich, snobby kids who come from prep schools in New England.
Read all 1 answers What are the most popular student activities/groups?
Just about all groups are equally popular. Athletics are very popular here and student government is also important.
In my experience, students tend to leave their doors unlocked, and there is a policy of being welcome at any time, but the doors automatically close and thus need to be proped in order to stay open.
Athletic events and guest speakers are extremely popular on campus. There are deep rivalries with several schools and those games are always well attended. HWS has the ability to bring very accomplished speakers to campus and the talks are well attended. Certain theatre events on campus are very popular, while others are on the rise.
The dating scene is almost non-existent on campus and "hook-ups" tend to be popular. The student body is very social.
Some of my closest friends are the people that I live with. First years at HWS are often put into housing that causes them to be with two if not three other people. The community feeling is enhanced as certain dorm buildings are small. This causes you to get to know a variety of people, and you grow close to them.
If I am awake at 2am on a tuesday, chances are good that I am writing a paper. The days here are too nice to waste, so work tends to be put off until the night hours.
People party every weekend. Partying is very common on this campus, as it is on every campus. There is an 18+ club in Geneva that is a popular haunt for HWS students. People say that you have to be drunk in order to enjoy it. Partying on Wednesday night is common as well, though most students do not do this every week if they do it at all. Fraternities are popular on campus and a great deal of parties are held at these houses. There are no sororities on campus to my knowledge.
Last weekend I went to the lacrosse game with my friends and roommates on friday night. Saturday, during the day, I worked on a paper. And on saturday night, I went out with my roommates and a few of our other friends to just unwind before reading week.
There are very often activites such as open mic nights and other things for students who don't drink, but there aren't too many options really.
Read all 1 answers What are the academics like at your school?
It is not uncommon to meet professors for coffee or at their office hours and I have done so on several occasions.
HWS's academic requirements are reasonable, but I feel that the ability to achieve a 4.3 as opposed to a 4.0 is an elemtentary move. I feel that it would be difficult to take someone seriously who had a 4.3 under GPA on their resume. Also, it is often times difficult to pull your GPA up if you did poorly in a class that you thought that you would need but it later turns out that it has nothing to do with your major.
The education here is geared towards learning and not necessarily towards a job whereas at Clarkson, EVERYTHING was geared towards graduation and getting a job.
Read all 1 answers Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?
Many students here come from wealthy families and wear expensive clothes. Many also come from prep schools and a great amount come from New England, but the stereotype unfairly groups all students. There are a fair amount of students here from lower-mid to upper-low class families.
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