<p>I am trying to decide whether or not i should attend Colgate. I recently visited and it is really beautiful but I'm afraid the rural atmosphere could get depressing after awhile. I know it's a good school and the campus is nice but I can't seem to get past the fact that it's literally in the middle of nowhere..the town of Hamilton did not seem like a fun place to be..I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on Colgate..I'm having a really hard time deciding and I only have a few days left until May 1st! Thanks so much!</p>
<p>whats your alternative</p>
<p>here's some light reading for you..."Colgate vs XXXXXX" threads....please be aware of the biases inherent on school-specific forums (e.g., the Notre Dame forum when evaluating Colgate vs Notre Dame), let alone from many individuals....</p>
<p>vs Wellesley: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=328859&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=328859&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bates: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322246&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322246&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Gettysburg & Rutgers: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=324169&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=324169&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bowdoin & Tufts: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322179&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322179&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bates: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322243&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322243&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Skidmore & Tufts: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=325152&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=325152&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Tufts: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322231&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322231&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Tufts, Brandeis, Wellesley & BC: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=326043&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=326043&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Kenyon: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=325207&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=325207&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Northwestern, Michigan, & Brown: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=325288&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=325288&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Tufts, Georgetown, & Middlebury: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322390&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322390&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bates: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322150&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322150&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Brandeis: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322514&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=322514&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wake Forest: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318398&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318398&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wake Forest: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318397&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318397&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Georgetown: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=306056&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=306056&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Carleton: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=303725&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=303725&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Cornell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=299207&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=299207&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Cornell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=299179&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=299179&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Colby: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=274464&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=274464&highlight=colgate</a>
Similar schools: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=267429&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=267429&highlight=colgate</a>
vs JHU & Amherst: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=267429&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=267429&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wesleyan: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=170116&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=170116&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wesleyan: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=238865&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=238865&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Hamilton: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=250621&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=250621&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wesleyan: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=255057&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=255057&highlight=colgate</a>
vs UVa: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=206740&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=206740&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Cornell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=246453&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=246453&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bowdoin & Wesleyan: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=239968&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=239968&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Cornell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=208448&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=208448&highlight=colgate</a>
vs UVa: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=206773&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=206773&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Hamilton: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=204500&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=204500&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Boston College: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=194491&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=194491&highlight=colgate</a>
Schools turned down for Colgate: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=181471&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=181471&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Middlebury: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=186961&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=186961&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Middlebury: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=187179&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=187179&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Pomona, Amherst, Grinnell & Davidson: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=177158&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=177158&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wesleyan, Rochester, Penn State & Lafayette: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=172053&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=172053&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bucknell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179269&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179269&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bucknell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179275&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179275&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bucknell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=181485&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=181485&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Hamilton: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166881&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166881&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Wesleyan: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=170098&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=170098&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Cornell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=180587&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=180587&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Earlham: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179443&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179443&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Harvey Mudd: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179116&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179116&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Harvey Mudd: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179130&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179130&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Harvey Mudd: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179131&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=179131&highlight=colgate</a>
vs JHU & Tufts: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=165340&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=165340&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Syracuse: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=178182&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=178182&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Syracuse: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=178184&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=178184&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Penn State, GWU & Villanova: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=177923&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=177923&highlight=colgate</a>
vs UC Berkeley: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=178453&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=178453&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Vanderbilt: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168911&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168911&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Emory & Rochester: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168525&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168525&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Rochester: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=171728&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=171728&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Lehigh, Emory & Rochester: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168355&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168355&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Middlebury & Tufts: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168643&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168643&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bucknell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=172542&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=172542&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Hamilton: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166884&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166884&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Stanford:<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166858&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166858&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Grinnell: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168547&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=168547&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Bowdoin & Hamilton: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166964&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166964&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Notre Dame: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=167490&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=167490&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Notre Dame: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=167489&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=167489&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Vanderbilt: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166527&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=166527&highlight=colgate</a>
vs Colby: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=153226&highlight=colgate%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=153226&highlight=colgate</a></p>
<p>Wow, papachicken, that is some extensive research. How long did it take you to find all those?</p>
<p>not that long...maybe 45 min to an hour while watching Grey's Anatomy. They are some good reading, and you are certainly a prolific poster in thise threads!</p>
<p>ps....I am sure you noticed, but I also posted the list for future reference on the Colgate forum.</p>