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<li><p>Are they supportive of their women's athletics?</p></li>
<li><p>What is the social scene like? Are there opportunities for dating? What do the students do on weekends? </p></li>
<li><p>What types of job opportunities are available for an economics major? Is there strong on campus recruiting?</p></li>
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<li><p>Do you mean, compared to the level of support for their men’s athletics? Yes, absolutely. You know that it is a DIII school, and does not have a football team, right?</p></li>
<li><p>Social scene is (from what I gather from D2, conversations with the other college D’s ,and their pals) pretty much the same as most colleges. I’m not sure what you mean by “opportunities for dating”- you throw a group of 18-22 year olds together and I don’t know how you don’t have dating! D2 certainly has been happy on that front (and we like the guy). Like many LACs, Vassar has an amazing array of activities on campus- enough that despite an easy train ride into Manhattan many, perhaps most students go through an entire term without leaving campus (not counting the ones who go out hiking in the area).</p></li>
<li><p>Econ is a current hot major, and seen as one with good economic (sorry!) prospects:</p></li>
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<p><a href=“http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2014/05/27/30-best-paying-college-majors-2014?page=3”>http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2014/05/27/30-best-paying-college-majors-2014?page=3</a>
<a href=“http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/T012-S001-10-best-college-majors-for-a-lucrative-career/index.html”>http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/T012-S001-10-best-college-majors-for-a-lucrative-career/index.html</a></p>
<p>I don’t know enough about recruiting at Vassar (D2 is only in 2nd year), but I doubt that it would fit your idea of “strong on-campus recruiting” - it certainly wouldn’t be the giant fairs you see at state universities. The little I do know first hand is that there is great support for building your cv, for identifying opportunities, for bringing together potential employers and students, starting in first year. So far D2 has been to two events with alums in her field, participated in 2 conferences in her field, and is going to the national conference in the spring, and gets regular notices of employers coming to do on-campus presentations and interviews. Vassar is also a member of something called SLAC (Selective Liberal Arts Consortium), which is a group of 12 LACs that run a joint recruiting operation as well. </p>
<p>@cocolucky - Regarding your women’s athletics question, many teams recruit pretty intensely now, and depending on the sport, some of their teams for next year have already mostly been determined. If your daughter wants to do a varsity sport at Vassar, she should contact the coach of that sport ASAP if she has not done so already.</p>
<p>Sophomores are heavily advised by the career center to attend events.</p>
<p>Since we’re so small, it’s really easy to work within your major. I’m currently a research assistant as a sophomore (I was one last semester freshman year, as well, for a different department).</p>
<p>It also helps that you get to know your profs on such a personal level. Mine wrote excellent recs and I was accepted into an REU for this summer. Another one of my friends got into an REU freshman year because his prof really advocated for him. There are certainly a lot of opportunities.</p>