Hi,
I’m looking at applying ED2 at Vassar! However, I’ve never visited, and I’m not really sure what the social scene is like. Would I fit in as someone who doesn’t really care about the arts? Also, what’s daily life like there?
Thanks!
There are all kinds if people at Vassar. You can find your group. Vassar does have strong arts, but it also has strengths in the sciences, political science, econ, psych, etc. You will find your group.
This is not a Greek party place, though. Vassar was founded by a brewer so it’s not particularly Puritanical by any measure, but it’s also not big football, Greek party school. Academics are taken seriously. Athletics not so much. There are parties if you want to find them and you can also find quiet places all over campus to study. It depends on what you’re looking for.
From your other thread, you are a prospective engineering student, which at Vassar means Math/Physics/etc and 3+2 with Dartmouth. My physics daughter loves being at Vassar. Among other things, she has had only one Physics or Math class where she was significantly in the minority gender-wise (mostly they are nearly even/slightly more males). Completely agree with @Dustyfeathers: students are very serious about their academics, but they do socialize. The upside of the strong arts is that there is always something to go see / do: remember all those performers need an audience!
Umm, half of Matthew Vassar’s charter Board of Trustees were Baptist clergy. The first Chairman of the Board was a devout Baptist. The first president of the college was also a devout Baptist. A lot has changed in 155 years. 
Vassar could be considered an early feminist.
As Dustyfeathers says, you will find your group. With roughly 2500 students it is larger than many LACs and that provides more social opportunities. My sophomore went for the intellectual rigor, but has a new found appreciation for arts venues that they had never considered before going there. Vassar seems to be a place where you can be who you are and find people you like no matter what your initial interests. The alums and current students I know all love the place. It’s a place where you can be or become who you choose to be.
I was just accepted ED I. It depends on what you mean when you say you don’t care about the arts. If you mean that you don’t see yourself studying or participating in the arts, that wouldn’t be a problem at all. But if you have absolutely no interest in/patience for the arts whatsoever, it might not be the best fit. Most Vassar students have some kind of interest in the arts, whether it be as a performer or audience member, and the arts dominate the social scene over things like athletics and Greek life (Vassar doesn’t even have Greek life or a football team).
As a general rule, it’s kind of risky to apply ED to school you haven’t visited. What attracts you to applying ED II to Vassar rather than RD?