<p>Hello! These two schools are my top right now. Which one do you think would be the better fit?</p>
<p>L&C
Pros:
- Close to home
- General Undergrad Focus
- Great Reputation</p>
<p>Cons:
- Doesn't seem that career focused
- I have heard that the campus culture is pretty cliquey.</p>
<p>Simmons
Pros:
- In Boston! (best college city)
- Career Focused
- Close Knit-Community</p>
<p>Cons:
- Far Away From Home
- No Immediate Guy Interaction
- Pretty Unknown Reputation where I live</p>
<p>Simmons is in Boston which is like you said a great college city so you can easily find guys to interact with. Simmons is a great colleges but it is especially known for it’s nursing program.</p>
<p>Which college would you choose if you were me @pinkpink103?</p>
<p>It depends what your major is and what you are looking for in a college? What are the most important factors to you ?Are you concerned about merit scholarships?</p>
<p>If I attended Simmons, I would ideally try to place into the 3+1 Social Work Program. If I was at L&C, I would major in psychology. I care about close relationships between classmates and professors, the ability to meet guys, good internship experience, and a great career service. Finances is not an issue for me. Thank you for helping me @pinkpink</p>
<p>From what I have read, you seem to prefer Simmons. It is career focused. It has a good reputation on the east coast
I have heard that there is a decent social life - perhaps better than at some isolated co-ed schools.</p>
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<p>I would hardly call L&C, in Portland OR, isolated. </p>
<p>OP, I’m not sure what you mean by career focused as it relates to these schools. Can you explain? My D attended L&C, had internships every summer, and had a full time job in hand a month before graduation. How does that reconcile with your not career focused comment? Also, I don’t think my D found the campus cliquey. She was a member of some geek clubs and still attended sporting events with friends.</p>
<p>You are wrong, the flagships for NY State schools are Stony Brook, Binghamton, Albany and Buffalo in that order.</p>
<p>Hello @Erin’s Dad ,
What I mean by a career focused school is that I want a school with a strong alum network, active on campus career center, graduate school preparation program and internships which are incorporated to my future field of study. Thank you for your thorough feedback!</p>
<p>LuxLake, SUNY has no flagships. the schools you list are universities as opposed to colleges. That does not make them flagships. SUNY has no flagships. They have 64 campuses. The lack of a flagship and the spread of money across so many schools with so many redundancies means that none in the SUNY system can compare with schools like UVA, Michigan (AA), Wisc. Right now the most difficult to gain enry to appears to be Geneseo. SUNY schools are not bad schools. They are fine.</p>
<p>LuxLake and Losta, the OP asked about Simmons and Lewis & Clark.As far as I can tell, she did not ask about SUNY.</p>
<p>I am from NY State originally and while there are no colleges that are called “flagships” by the state, all NYers know which they are. Bing, SBU, Albany and Buffalo. These are the university centers, as they are known.</p>
<p>Geneseo seems popular lately, however these are the university centers and the best that NYS has to offer.</p>
<p>Not sure at all why Gen is so popular of late. Horrible location.</p>
<p>I have no idea how the whole NY Flagship discussion came up in here. The first place mentioned was @LuxLake in post #7 saying someone was wrong? No prior post? If people want to discuss the NY colleges then it might be best to start a new post.</p>
<p>Simmons. :)</p>
<p>Simmons because if you are interested in Social Work, they will get you out the fastest. Boston is also a great place to attend college.</p>
<p>Hi! I am a freshmen at Simmons College right now in the Nursing program, and I absolutely hate it. An all women’s college is not for everyone. Like most people here, I pack up and head home every weekend because I cannot stand this place. They shove feminism down your throat, and even make you identify your pronouns. I have found that the school is too small also, but it may be different for you. I have many friends who are looking to transfer, as am I when this semester is over. The food is absolutely terrible, and there is no school spirit. If your looking to see school sports games or go to parties, look elsewhere unless you want to have craft night or painting night every week. Overall, it’s a beautiful (tiny) campus in a great location, but I do not find it to be worth my time or small fortune that they charge. Oh! The dorms are also very worn. Sorry for this rant, I don’t like this school, but others certainly do! Let me know if you have any other questions.</p>
<p>Hello @Megster,</p>
<p>Thanks for your feedback! 
It is nice to hear from a student’s experience and especially one who does not the like the school. If this isn’t too difficult, could you specify the top five things you hate about the school and the top five things you like about it? </p>
<p>Sure thing @tenstudent,</p>
<p>5 thing that I hate about Simmons (in no particular order)</p>
<ul>
<li>The feminism being shoved down your throat. I expected there to be a lot of feminism, but not quite this much.</li>
<li>I don’t fit in with most of the girls here, I mean this in the nicest way, but they’re all lesbian/butch, or the polar opposite and are preppy and clique.</li>
<li>Lack of social life, even though you are in Boston, finding a party or something to do being under 21 is very difficult because you must be on the list, if craft nights every week are your thing, this is the place for you. Also, Lack of school spirit, you have your athletes, and then you have the people who could care less about athletics. I miss having a ton of school spirit and going to sports games, but here, nobody cares.</li>
<li>The food here is so horrible, I have not eaten at Bartol in over two weeks. No variety, they don’t cook it well, and they have very selective options (especially if you have any special dietary needs). A meal plan is also required all four years.</li>
<li>The dorms are a nightmare, they were all built very long ago, and ridiculously tiny, and overall just very outdated and run down.</li>
</ul>
<p>5 things I like about Simmons College (again, in no particular order)</p>
<ul>
<li>The location is prime, especially being just feet from Longwood Ave being a nursing major.</li>
<li>Accessibility to public transportation, Fenway and Museum of Fine Arts T stops are just steps from campus.</li>
<li>The classes I am in now are pretty good, difficult, but the professors are good. Another thing I don’t like is Simmons has a huge GE requirements and you have to take three semesters of foreign language (actually it depends what class you test into)</li>
<li>I love having a grassy quad in the middle of a city campus, it kinda feels like an oasis away from the city (even though I find the campus to be much to small for my taste)</li>
<li>The pubic safety is really good (almost too good, jk) They lock all the surrounding gates at 11ish so nobody can get in or out unless you go through the security stop in Simmons Hall. It’s pretty nice because it makes you feel really safe in the big city.</li>
</ul>
<p>Again, let me know if you have any more questions. I like to give people information that I didn’t receive. If you do take a tour, take it with a grain of salt because I found a lot of the tour to be misleading now that I am here. I’m sorry if it seems like I am trying to talk you out of this school, it personally isn’t for me and I know I made a mistake choosing here, but other people do really seem to enjoy it here. </p>
<p>Also, another thing I want to add is (and this is coming from a Nursing student), Most nursing students here (and there are a ton of us… I think a third of my class is Nursing) think that they are the best - trust me, you can pick out a nursing student from any other student here.</p>
<p>Thank you @Megster for all of the feedback You mention that there is a lack of social life on campus. How about off campus? I know there are many schools in the area. Have you found that it is easy or hard to meet guys off campus? Since you don’t like the life on campus, how easy is it for you to hang with other students from off campus?</p>