<p>Nice job spreading misleading, wrong, and (at best) outdated information, justchuck.</p>
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<li><p>SB is very well known for natural sciences and health professions, but there are a lot of other top-notch departments in the arts, social sciences and humanities. In some ways a non-bio/pre-med major can even be better off, since the less well known programs can often offer more personal attention and have less competition for the great opportunities they have to offer.</p></li>
<li><p>and 3. Nice job pulling statistics out of your butt and promoting racist stereotypes of Asian people! There is a large Asian population at SB (though those numbers don’t match up with any of the credible sources I’ve seen), but nothing about being Asian renders them incapable of socializing. “They will not approve of your lifestyle”–right, because it’s not like some people are both South Asian and queer… oh wait. Sure, some of SB’s Asian students come from very traditional or otherwise LGBT-hostile backgrounds, but plenty of them are queer allies too. The LGBTA and the South Asian student group cosponsored multiple events this semester; how does that translate into hostility between the two populations?</p></li>
<li><p>Studies of students’ ID card usage show that on average, >80% of residents are on campus for the weekend. For the mathematically challenged, that means there’s no way in hell half the campus leaves every weekend, and even 80% of SB resident students is more people than the entire student body of many LACs. Over 90% of this year’s first year students lived on campus; how is that a commuter school? The surrounding town isn’t amazing, but Port Jeff definitely has some good bars and restaurants, and there’s always plenty of interesting stuff going on on campus. School spirit doesn’t really revolve around sports so it’s harder to recognize for people who are exclusively focused on the whole traditional rah-rah-football thing, but it definitely exists.</p></li>
<li><p>They’re typical dorms–not luxury hotels, but not slums either. They’re on par with dorms at pretty much every other school I’ve ever visited, and are generally nice places to live unless you have totally unreasonable expectations. Tripling sucks, but a lot of schools are doing it these days and it’s pretty much inevitable when you guarantee housing to freshmen and continuing students, your enrollment increases, and most people want to live on campus and stay on campus.</p></li>
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<p>Calling things as you see 'em is a better strategy when you’ve actually looked at the place you’re describing in the past 15 years.</p>