<p>On the subject of bathrooms...</p>
<p>Do all dorms have the community-style bathrooms and showers? It seems that most schools these days have some older dorms with the community thing, and other newer or renovated dorms that have the shared deal.</p>
<p>As someone looking into chemistry ->pharmacology or med school, I have to ask if everyone is as scared of the science programs as the guides when I visited campus seemed to be. All poly-sci and history majors, they were rather taken aback when I answered that I was looking at the 4 year MS in Chemistry.</p>
<p>Also on that subject, I saw on the vassar website that there are only ~7 chem majors per class. Does this tend to equal out to better, smaller classes or a weaker department?</p>
<p>Grapes -- Not involved in the drug scene myself but it's there if you want it and you can ignore it if you don't. It's all about what you seek out for yourself...As for the Mug, yea, it's the only "bar" (only wine and beer though) on campus; there's also the pub which is open once a week which serves liquor. But you have to be of age to drink at either place. Most drinking occurs in the dorms or at the senior houses. But as I said earlier, the party scene is what you want it to be...if you want it its there if you want to be straightedge, that's perfectly cool. There are also campus wide parties that have alcohol (again 21+)...</p>
<p>Sharpie -- Nope, all dorms are community; I think there might be some suites in Main that have their own bathrooms (?) but I don't actually know. It's not the norm, though. Senior houses you share a standard bathroom with 2 or 3 other people...</p>
<p>LookingForward-- Not a Chem person, sorry, but honestly I haven't heard of anyone doing the MA program here...you should really contact the chem department about that. And even though there are only like 7 chem kids there are also the biochem kids, the neuroscience kids, etc. who will also be in your classes so its not THAT small. And yea, most people are humanities majors but no one will chastise you for being a science person. People will think you're cool and ask for help on their statistics assignments :-P.</p>
<p>thanks..</p>
<p>What grad schools do vassarites end up? top end ones?..</p>
<p>JHL -- It depends on fields and what you want to do etc. If you want top grad schools you'll get into them if you work hard enough. Vassar is a great "name" to come from, so as long as you do the work you'll be fine. I just got my last letter from grad schools and I'll be going to a top 10 program in my field with full funding and a nice stipend. Then again a lot of people take time off in between; Of my house for instance 2/5 of us are going to grad school next year. The rest are getting jobs and figuring out their lives...</p>
<p>how's the alumni network?</p>
<p>Superb. There's a list of alumnae/i that the career counseling and alumnae/i office keep updated. All volunteers on this list offer themselves as resources for Vassar students who aspire to work or graduate study in their fields of specialization. Inquiries/correspondence, job shadowing, internships, etc. are offered by these alumnae/i. </p>
<p>How do I know? I'm on the list. (I direct a graduate program in the humanities.)</p>
<p>Quick question: Do we have to move out of dorms during the summer and winter breaks? Or is Noyes the only one that lets you stay year long? I currently live in Taiwan, so it'll be a bit of a problem if I can't find a place to stay. :(</p>
<p>Thanks.. do you mind telling which schools you got in? or just private message me?.. Thanks..</p>
<p>I plan to major in Physics/Math or Geology.. providing that I get in.. good prospects?</p>
<p>Pilots--Yea, alumni network=A plus.</p>
<p>Ainfean -- Noyes is intersession housing, but really it's not bad, and if you're placed in a dorm other than Noyes you'll be moved to Noyes for winter and spring breaks. Summer you're moved to Main.</p>
<p>JHL -- Eh, I prefer not to give myself too much more away (though I probably already have) but I got into (and am rejecting) 3 Ivies among others, I'm in a psychology field. You'll probably be fine, just work hard, study for the GREs etc. For math I hear you HAVE to get an 800 on Quant section of the GREs, but that's in general, not just for Vassar.</p>
<p>Thanks.. </p>
<p>Do graduate schools just look at grades, researches, recoms, GRE but NOt ECs (piano, violin, sports, anything irrelevant to your major..) like admissions to undergrad schools?</p>
<p>Hi, I was hoping to hear if any current Vassar students know of any students ultimately accepted off the wait list. I am currently on the waitlist and really hoping to be accepted, and keeping the faith it works.
I have a family friend who is any alum from 15 yrs ago, and wanted to know if it is a good idea to mention this person in my letter to Admissions to further express my interest in Vassar. This alum was not mentioned by me on my application or the essays so thought it may be helpful.</p>
<p>Thanks for any advice or comments.</p>
<p>a good friend of mine was accepted of the waitlist and we're currently sophomores.</p>
<p>as for the alum...i wish i knew one way or the other what to advise you, but i'm not sure. sorry.</p>
<p>RE: The waitlist question. In my experience it all depends where you are on the waitlist. I know that Vassar has had consistently higher enrollment numbers for accepted studnets every year which has been shrinking thier waitlist draw . . . but like lizochka -I knew a few people who made it in off the waitlist.</p>
<p>The admissions office is going to LOVE me for this one, but a little polite harrasment of them will sometimes aid garnering information as to how far down the list you are and roughly how many people the expect to take in off the list (at a minimum you can probably get them to tell you how deep into the list then went last year and you can make your own rough estimates).</p>
<p>Also, at this point . . . you're ranked on the list (I think) so alumni letter is probably no good (unless your friend is on the Board of Trustees)</p>
<p>both times a visited Vassar the weather wasn't very good. I didn't see many students outside walking around the campus. On nice days, are students all over the Vassar campus? i.e. the dorm quad and the other greens on campus?</p>
<p>I know it's a weird question.</p>
<p>You'll be tripping over all people on the quad most of the time.</p>
<p>What is your favorite dorm?</p>
<p>Can you explain what a Wellness or Quiet selection means in practice...as opposed to the theory.</p>
<p>wellness means you're not supposed to drink on the floor even if you're 21. if you're under 21, i really don't see any difference between wellness hall and regular hall. Quiet means that you're supposed to keep all the noise in your room within your walls. nobody should hear you from outside. If you have easy-going neighbors, it's not really a big deal, but if you have a hard-to-please one, quiet hall can be a real pain. You can't listen to music too loud, can't leave the door open when you have a small party in your room, can't hang out in the hall with your friends (most often your student fellow group)... But if you have fun outside and just want to go home to a quiet place where u can study and sleep without distractions, quiet hall is not a bad option. I study in the library and am deep sleeper so I'm definitely switching to regular hall next year. I was put on quiet hall by accident this year.</p>