<p>Can someone help me with a couple of HWS questions:</p>
<li><p>How does the coordinated colleges system affect students day-to-day? Are there many real differences that students note between a conventional co-ed college, or is much of the two-college organization more at the administrative level.</p></li>
<li><p>Is anyone familiar with the strength of either the International Relations program or the development studies minor? Are these “real” departments, or essentially just an interdisciplinary major/mino pieced together by setting up requirements that can be met by taking courses from faculty in other departments who have no strong affiliation with the programs? </p></li>
<li><p>If there are any current students lurking, would you recommend HWS to a friend back to your high school?</p></li>
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<p>bump (now I understand what 10 char means :-)</p>
<p>I would tell people to come here.</p>
<p>On day to day life- the coordinate system affects very little. The only differences are separate student governments, administrations and sports teams. You'll have classes with, be in clubs with and live with students of the opposite sex. </p>
<p>My freshman year roommate was an International Relations major and she found it to be very strong. Furthermore, most of the interdisciplinary majors are nothing to scoff at, while it is true that many of your classes will be "outside the department" there will be classes within the department as well. For example, as a former Architectural Studies major I took classes within the the department as well as within many other departments (from Econ to Physics to Sociology to Math) as well as many classes in the Art department. It's a great system, if you ask me.</p>
<p>As a recent grad of HWS I would definitely recommend the school to anyone. Make sure you visit first and know exactly what type of school you'll be attending. It's a very small school in somewhat of an isolated location. Most of the people I encountered who ended up transferring out did so because they wanted a bigger school in more of a city setting.</p>