Hello everyone,
I got accepted to MoHo and Earlham and have to pay 28k per year for MoHo and 23k per year for Earlham. I will major in Bio and Statistics and plan to go to graduate school. I am international student. I am so confused right now. Any advice?
Tell me more about pros and cons of both schools( location, quality, community…)
Thanks a lot
I think MoHo’s location, with the 5 college consortium, is much more attractive than Earlham’s.
Not only is the area surrounding MoHo livelier than Richmond, Indiana, but it’s also a bit more accessible to interesting places you might want to visit (Boston, NYC, Montreal, etc.) Although you can find interesting things to do at just about any college, Richmond is in the middle of what some Americans call “flyover country”.
They’re both good colleges. Academically, I don’t think either one is significantly better than the other. However, the consortium does give MoHo students broader course selection.
Mount Holyoke is all women, though with access to cross register at other schools through the consortium. It is a lovely campus, reasonably accessible to east coast cities and experience. Earlham is co-ed, with a very diverse community, and a Quaker heritage and traditions which creates a culture of tolerance and inclusion. Earlham has been renovating/rebuilding its science facilities, and I believe Bio has already been re-done – take a look at the website for video/pictures of the facilities, we were impressed when we visited. The campus is also lovely, though not accessible to great cities – it is about an hour from Indianapolis.
How complicated would travel be? And is that $5,000 a year difference significant for your family?
Thanks a lot
What about F&M vs MoHo? Anything about Reputation (among top grad schools and companies),Location,Facilities and resources, Safety, opportunities, Food and dorm, Quality of life?
Anyone?
F&M and Mount Holyoke are going to be similarly regarded in terms of quality of education. F&M has the reputation as being more pre-professional, less intellectual, and perhaps less diverse than both Mount Holyoke and Earlham, though I have not researched the percentages recently. F&M has been working to sort out the role of greek life on campus, I believe it was banned for a while and then re-introduced. F&M does not give merit money, only financial aid, so if there are likely to be significant shifts in your family’s finances, that could affect aid at F&M in the future. F&M is located in Lancaster, PA, about an hour from Philly, in a community known as the center of Amish life (a religious community which eschews modern conveniences, such as cars etc.) and can be a bit of tourist attraction for that reason.
Thank you. What do u think about Bio and Maths Departments of Moho? Are they strong and reputed?