<p>So there is relatively no one talking about CofC :(...I applied early and am waiting for notifications, it is my favorite school by far and will definetely go if accepted!..Who else applied early/ plans on applying for Fall of 2009?</p>
<p>Does this school have a good business school?</p>
<p>Any other comments on the school?</p>
<p>From The Princeton Review</p>
<p>College Of Charleston</p>
<p>Academics</p>
<p>"It’s satisfaction guaranteed at the College of Charleston, where one enters “the gateway to southern charm, grace, and hospitality” and gets “a private school atmosphere with a public school cost.” Though the almost Siren-like appeal of the South Carolina location seems to have been the deciding factor for a fair number of students, the great value of the education (particularly for in-state residents) is cited by many as a definite perk to an already-perky school. As for the learning part of the easy living, the “very high faculty to student ratio makes it easy to get help when you need it,” and the class sizes “are just a little bigger than in high school,” which is “conducive to learning.” Science and pre-med programs are singled out as being particularly solid, and strong academics also abound in the “challenging courses, especially upper level classes” (which is good, because it can be “sort of hard as an underclassman to get into the classes and sections you want”). Registration can be hit or miss, but professors are “totally available and oftentimes brilliant” and offer “many opportunities to help, whether it be office hours, meetings or review sessions.” Those enrolled here are satisfied with the “enthusiastic” administration as well, who are trying to counteract the school’s very apparent homogeneity by “really trying to expand the school.”</p>
<p>Student Body</p>
<p>"The almost sickeningly happy student body is “upbeat and positive about being at CofC,” and this collective group of “Southern belles, hard-core northerners, surfers, nerds and party animals” are “all united by the beach,” though the simpler split is between preppy or the “the artsy/hippy type.” It’s interesting to note that there’s a significantly larger number of women than men, and though the diversity is pretty low, students note that it is growing, even if right now they have “mostly your typical sorority and frat type students.” Politically, “it’s definitely the most liberal school in South Carolina,” and “most people are very open to other cultures and lifestyles.” “For example, I had pink hair one time and everybody loved it!” says a sophomore. “It is highly implausible that you won’t find your niche within the first weeks of school.”</p>
<p>Campus Life</p>
<p>"Students just love, love, love Charleston, and it’s not often you find most students using the phrase “Elysian backdrop” outside of a term paper. “When I tell people that I go to school in Charleston, they say, ‘You are not going to school, you are going on vacation!’” says one. “The water is a five minute walk; the beach is a five minute drive,” says another. “You read on the greenest grass in a scene from a movie. You walk around in 70 degree weather with smiling friends and classmates during November and December,” says yet another starry-eyed student. The campus is located in the center of the city, so campus housing options can be somewhat limited. The food has been universally panned, but a new cafeteria, opened in August 2007, will likely improve the culinary quality. Most students walk rather than drive, and having a car “is actually a hindrance,” which comes in handy for resisting the temptation on the weekends, since the school “has great parties and an atmosphere to support them.” Not that this means students shirk their work, they just learn to allocate their time (upperclassmen usually manage this better than the party-happy freshmen). “The real issue at hand is deciding: bar or library?” The arts are also big here—”theatre and music mostly” —and the historic sites even get a fair amount of patronage, such as the popular walk along the “battery where the Civil War started.”"</p>
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<p>This is one of the schools I will take my youngest to visit -- just for the heck of it. I've been curious about CofC for a long time, but I'll pretty much use any excuse to go back and visit Charleston. Great place.</p>
<p>FLVADAD: I like the way you think...and btw, totally agree.....D2 would probably not be accepted but I will use some excuse to look at the school.....one of my favorite cities in the US</p>
<p>I spent a few hours in Charleston while we were vacationing in NC (went for the day). It was in August, and boy was it hot and humid (really we could hardly stand it outside)! Still, we had a nice lunch, visited some quaint shops and had a nice day there.</p>