<p>I got into MHC and Bucknell and the programs for what I want to study have the same number of instructors, all highly educated.</p>
<p>I’m mostly struggling with the all-girl and LBGS (sorry for misquote in advance) aspect MHC. I AM slightly uncomfortable with the lesbian culture and I am also slightly conservative with some social issues. Furthermore, i’m politically active. I’m afraid I will not be able to be as understanding or accepting about the lgst issue.</p>
<p>So my dilemma is that I’m wanting to do the best for myself, and my future and I MAY have more opportunities at MHC but if I’m not comfortable, I won’t make the best of it. But I can’t tell if i’m comfortable from a small visit. I did get the vibe that everyone was a little eccentric though.</p>
<p>Bucknell on the other hand has much higher graduate school entrance stats into top grad schools from what I read. But then again, there is nothing open past 8am. I remember sitting in my hotel room thinking “wow, I cannot live here.” At MHC at least I am only approximately 1.5 hours from Boston! Maybe I should have spent more time at Bucknell, but I don’t know.</p>
<p>I’ve visited both and they are just so very different.</p>
<p>I keep coming back to my main goals of wanting to study at UMASS and Amherst, as well as going to Washington or abroad for a semester which I can only specifically find details about doing that on MHC’s website. Conversely MHC doesn’t even list Fullbright on their website and in my small dealings with them so far, i’ve felt like it hasn’t been as smooth to do things as they had alluded to at first. On the Bucknell website, fullbright is the first thing on Bucknells and it’s something I would really like to do. Is it worth going to MHC just for the 5 college consortium, slightly higher ranting, potential for better study abroad(if I qualify and can get in) or not?</p>
<p>Furthermore MHC is ranked slightly higher (which isn’t my biggest priority, because that changes depending on who has documented the ratings).</p>
<p>I grew up in a small conservative town, but I absolutely LOVE racial and lifestyle(people from different places, with extraordinary life stories and/or crappy situations they were able to overcome)</p>
<p>MHC is a little smaller than Bucknell and I think I would be happier in a place a little bigger, but it’s so hard to tell from a visit. I like country music, drive a Lexus, and grew up in France but I hate snobs, and unfriendly people. I’ve heard Bucknell is friendly and a little fake whereas MHC is more serious and non-social. But, of course not having studied there, this is all speculation. I’m interested in being challenged academically but I also really like to let loose and I have heard the MHC has basically no drinking on campus whereas Bucknell is known for being more of a party school. I’m bubbly, get along with everyone and try not to judge. Do you think I’ll fit in at MHC or Bucknell better?</p>
<p>Help!</p>