<p>Ah! Are you talking about the brochure that was sent just recently? It was really impressive.</p>
<p>As to the quality of Vassar's science department, I guess it's really hard to quantify how good a department the school has in comparison to another school, but Vassar's medical school acceptance rate, for example, is a bit higher than many other schools in its tier. I remember seeing Carleton's as being around 70% while Vassar's website says its is 85%. Again, I don't know how well the accomplishments of Vassar's alums stack up against those of other institutions, but (this coming from a prospective science major) I found it really exciting to flip through that brochure and see so many people going on to do grad work at schools like Yale and MIT or attending med school at places like Harvard of Johns Hopkins. Clearly name and prestige aren't everything, but it seems like the difficulty of being admitted to those schools is a good indicator of the type of preparation Vassar gives.</p>