<p>Does anyone know anything about this school?</p>
<p>Have you known of people who have gone, have they been happy/unhappy?</p>
<p>It appears to be career oriented - can a student get a good liberal arts education there as well?</p>
<p>Is it a party school?</p>
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<p>A friend of my D's has been accepted at Champlain and plans to major in Social Work. Like many Champlain students, she was attracted both by the vocational emphasis of the school and its interdisciplinary core curriculum that will allow her to explore the arts, humanities and sciences. </p>
<p>With it's Burlington location and proximity to UVM and St. Michael's I suspect parties do occur, although I've never heard Champlain discussed in the context of hard-core party schools. If you were to ask this question at this time next year I imagine I'd be able to give you a more informed answer but that's what I know now.</p>
<p>I don't know anyone who currently attends. I knew someone who was in religious school with one of my sons who is currently a student, but I have lost contact with them. </p>
<p>We toured the school, and loved the location. They seem to offer a lot of individual attention. Our tour guide was a sophomore accounting major. She seemed to be very happy. At the time their "hot major" was sort of computer game designing, or some sort of computer major, and that is the reason we visited. When our son decided that he was not going to major in game design or computers we did not persue it.</p>
<p>My friend's son goes there and loves it. He's in a highly specialized computer (video game design??) program. Has made friends and loves the unique housing options. I also am acquainted with another woman whose daughter attends and is also very happy, don't know her major.</p>
<p>Burlington is supposed to be a wonderful college town, beautiful and a great atmosphere. Champlain has also been suprisingly affordable for a private college in the past, not sure if that is changing though.</p>
<p>Burlington is an AMAZING college town. I applied to UVM for my safety, and when i visted, i serioulsy fell in LOVE with Burlington, and UVM to some extent. Plus it's vermont, which makes everything beautiful, and there are no billboards.</p>
<p>This is a great college in a great town. Very career oriented, I think. The only problem I've heard is the same problem I've heard about every LAC, U, etc. and that is excessive partying. Again, this is no more true of this school than any other. I think it's a great option.</p>
<p>A very serious friend has a daughter there now. She had problems as a first year because of partying. She's doing great after a break.</p>
<p>We also toured Champlain. S was interested in computer info. systems. We really liked the campus (our tour guide told us it was a dry campus, but with the UVM frat houses all blended in among the Champlain houses, it wouldn't be hard to find some beer.) The dorms were Victorian houses that were very unique. Burlington was a beautiful town. At the end of the tour, we met with 3 other families with an admissions person. He paid particular attention to one of the other prospies as she was from a high school in his recruiting area. I don't think he said more than 2 words to my S. That was disappointing and kind of turned us off. But it was ok, since S decided he didn't want to be a 5 hour drive from home.</p>
<p>My D was recently accepted (EDII) to Champlain. She loves the school, the location and some of the internship opportunities for a marketing major. It was either VT or CO since she's a serious snowboarder. We're happy that she'll be only 6 hrs. from home!</p>
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<p>She will be close to us if she ever needs a friend in an emergency--we always hope that won't happen!</p>
<p>One of my best friends attends there, and I recently visited her when I was looking at UVM. Champlain is absolutely gorgeous, and the "dorms" (i use that term loosely, since how many dorms are actually old mansions?!) are very nice. My friend is a graphic design major, and is loving her time there. From what I've heard though, students usually head to UVM if they want to party, since Champlain is a small school. It seems that if a kid wants to party, they can always find one, but if they don't, there is no one looking down upon them for that choice. Everyone I met who went there loved it, and had no regrets about choosing to attend.</p>
<p>Thank you bethievt for your offer. Maybe we should exchange some information?</p>
<p>We're going visiting in fall with Son #2. I'll remind myself to post a trip report after the visit.</p>
<p>This was the first college that really clicked with my son and he was very disappointed when he was not accepted to their computer game design major. The college overall has a high acceptance rate but the game design major is very popular and competitive and the courses build on one another so that if you don't get in Freshman year, you cannot get in another year without extending the graduation date. Also, while their sticker price is fairly reasonable, their merit aid is very low. Those are the only negatives. I'm pretty sure I did a review of it.</p>
<p>We also LOVED the location, the campus and the students were very friendly. My fourteen year old has it on his imaginary list.</p>
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My younger S was admitted to the game design major last year, but did not accept. In part it was because of what you cite (hard to compete with over $20K in merit money from other schools), and in part it was because the major was Mac-only and he didn't want to restrict himself to being a single-operating-system guy.</p>
<p>I was really hoping he would want to go there; Burlington had been on my college location wish-list since I was 18.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of someone who’s in or graduated from Champlain’s Game Art/Animation major?</p>
<p>How funny that this thread was bumped up after three years. My now almost 18 year old son has decided to attend Champlain and it’s funny to see that I had written
three years ago.</p>
<p>To answer your question shipbottom, I don’t know anyone personally that has graduated form the game design program but I have a friend whose nephew is in the regular (not art/animation) one right now. I contacted her when my son was in the throes of a decision. She said that her nephew loves Champlain and that recent grads have jobs. Champlain has really stepped up it’s game in recent years and it’s Game Design program is highly ranked nationally. [The</a> Top Places to Study Video Game Design – For Credit - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/video-game/]The”>The Top Places to Study Video Game Design -- For Credit - The New York Times) The college itself will be in the newest Princeton Review book - [Princeton</a> Review Adds Champlain to ‘Best 376 Colleges’ List](<a href=“http://www.champlain.edu/News-and-Events/News/Princeton-Review.html]Princeton”>http://www.champlain.edu/News-and-Events/News/Princeton-Review.html)</p>
<p>Very glad this got bumped up. It’s on my dd’s list of possibles (she’s a junior). Does anyone know much about the business program? They seem to stress internships, which my dd is very interested in.</p>
<p>My son graduated from Champlain in 2010 with a degree in Internataional Business. He started with a Business degree, and due to their “upside-down curriculum” was able to take business classes that he was interested in his freshman year. He did an internship with a local firm and was able to arrange 2 semesters abroad. He was very happy with his experience there.</p>
<p>vandyalum - Bottom line - Is your son now employed in his field? Did he got to both Quebec and Dublin? I’m hoping our son does an abroad so we can visit him! Would love to hear more overall on his Champlain experience. I sort of feel that we’re taking a leap of faith with Champlain. Although my son has connected with two of the Professors and has a halfway promise of a campus job, we don’t know anyone that’s actually attended Champlain.</p>
<p>My son’s first semester abroad was in Mumbai, at a sister school to Champlain, and his second was in Thailand. He also went on a 3 week volunteer trip to an African orphanage with a Champlain advisor and other classmates. He is currently serving in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan. </p>
<p>His former roommate who has a degree in graphic design is employed in advertising/design. I don’t know if his other college friends have jobs. Many of his high school friends do not.</p>