<p>Anyone going to the events on Sunday/Monday? My D will be spending the night. MHC is her first choice, but considering the very high cost and very low FA, it may not work out. I wish it were different, because it is such a lovely school with a great mission of educating exceptional women.</p>
<p>Yes, we’re 3.5 hours by car- driving separately- and D will head back to school on Monday morning, while I’ll head out Sunday night. I’m planning to attend the FA talk as well as the 5 College discussion. My D will be attending MHC and I’m looking forward to meeting her prospective classmates and their parents!</p>
<p>We’re only 2.5 hours so I’ll head home on Sunday, my husband will go back and get her on Monday. We are very lucky that this falls during her school’s vacation period. I went with her to Shadow Day in November so I don’t need another general campus tour, but I hope we can do the residence hall tour. Not sure which talks we will attend. </p>
<p>We will be attending! Staying overnight (I’ll stay in a hotel) and returning home Monday with a side stop at Ikea to look at dorm stuff ;)</p>
<p>Would anyone please share your experience at the Admitted Student Day? Good and/or bad?</p>
<p>I enjoyed the day and my D is still there, spending the night and probably having a wonderful time. She took the residence hall tour and we attended panels on Financial Aid and the Lynk internship program. We got the most concrete information at Financial Aid. As always, the staff and students were welcoming. But if you couldn’t attend, I wouldn’t say you missed any key information. It was a lot of “we love you, we’ll support you, you’ll go on to do great things” but not solid program or advising information. Maybe others had a different experience. </p>
<p>Wow, wow, wow. We just got home and it was a fantastic experience. I’m too tired from all the driving to elabotate, but I promise @ccdfor2 I will post tomorrow!</p>
<p>D had a very good time. We split up to attend as many of the panel sessions as possible and they did help to consolidate some information in our minds. Especially useful to us were the panels on the 5 college consortium, the Lynk internship experience and MHC global. One major thing that we walked away is the exceptional sense of community that is present on campus. We were looking for ways to differentiate the MHC experience with some of the others under consideration and that is definitely a hallmark.</p>
<p>I agree with @upforfun. The sense of community was very evident and a big plus. I attended the Lynk internship panel with my daughter. (MHC is now funding a summer internship for EVERY student.) My D was really excited and inspired by the discussion. As a parent, I really appreciated the discussion about the guidance and advising offered to students to help them suss out or narrow down a field of study based on careful consideration of interests and strengths. I also attended the Residential Life forum and D attended the Study Abroad forum. I attended the parents cocktail party in the evening: there were about 20 professors and staff introduced who were then available for chatting afterwards. This was terrific. The thing that struck me was how passionate the profs seemed and how much they seemed to truly love what they are doing and the students they are working with. I spoke to three in particular who just got so excited talking about the school. Everyone was accessible and enthusiastic, which bodes very well for their interactions with the students, I think.</p>
<p>The main thing I came away from the weekend with is a sense of community. I feel as though MHC is a place where there is a really good balance between being supportive and nurturing and also preparing students for adult life and challenging them academically. The students I spoke with said that people aren’t competitive with each other academically, but are competitive with themselves. Everyone pushes themselves, and supports their peers who are doing likewise.</p>
<p>It was really beautiful to see my D feel so at home. She kept saying, “These are my people!” I spoke with other parents who said their Ds felt the same way. People all around us were smiling and saying, “Yes, this is the place.” I spoke to several young woman and parents at both the start and end of the weekend. A couple of them started out the weekend fairly skeptical, or at least with no bias towards MHC. Many were weighing MHC against other accepted schools like Smith, Wellesley, Skidmore, Bard, Brandeis etc. By the end of the weekend, many were saying, “If the finances work out, this is the place.”</p>
<p>My D also reports that the food is great and the dorms are beautiful. She has now been in 4 different dorms and said they were all spacious and nice. She loved the nightly “milk and cookies” tradition, too!</p>
<p>My D has ultimately decided not to attend MHC. I am so very proud of her for being accepted, but then being able to realize it was not the right fit for her. Someone on the waitlist gets to move up! Happy for them, happy for my D and her decision to attend a more affordable school with a better program for her goals.</p>