<p>what can you tell me about sweet briar?</p>
<p>I loved everything Sweet Briar sent me! While WashU may send out the most materials, Sweet Briar sends out their stuff on expensive stationary and it made me feel special, like they wanted me to come! They have a great community, nobody seems to be cut throat, and the professors seem to truly care about teaching and the individual.</p>
<p>Everythinng I read in Fiske, Princeton Revie'w, College Prowl'er, all the resources I looked at, made it seem like a fab school.</p>
<p>I even signed up for addditional materials to be sent to me last year.</p>
<p>What's funny though, is that I didn't realize it was 100% female...and I am male. For some reason, I just never looked at the ratio. Everything looked great to me on paper.</p>
<p>Later last year, I went to college fair and politely told them that they didn't have to send me anymore information.</p>
<p>But if you're studious, love to learn for learning's sake, want to know profs and want an excellent ugrad education--and if your female :) -- definitely look into Sweet Briar.</p>
<p>Sweet Briar has a beautiful campus in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, but very isolated. The campus is outside the small town of Amherst, and the nearest city is Lynchburg, a 20-minute drive. On the other hand, Charlottesville is an hour away and DC is 3 hrs.</p>
<p>Sweet Briar has a beautiful campus.</p>
<p>I agree -very nice campus, plus a great PR and Admissions department with lots of literature to hook you, but BEWARE of the pitfalls once you attend -- 55% of students leave campus every weekend, 75% have cars to escape, mixers are a joke. Check out the US News College review.</p>
<p>I would love to know where you received your information! Actually, per a study conducted about two years ago at SBC, 75% of students stay on campus every weekend; those that don’t typically go to H-SC, Sweet Briar’s brother school, or visit other college friends in the area. The mixers and campus events are great as well! There are formals and semi-formals each semester, a great spring fling (Eve 6 played this year for a great blast from the past!), and SBC students participate in the same kind of activities on H-SC’s campus too! SBC has seven sports teams and a ton of school spirit, so we’re always around to cheer for our sports teams, and students will do the same at H-SC’s football games in the fall if they want. But again, that’s only about 25% of the student body at most! And only 50% of students have cars and not “to escape,” though that’s cute! </p>
<p>And as an aside, you may want to be careful with the US News rankings and what US News has to say in general. Though Sweet Briar does receive rankings and commentary from US News, the institution chooses not to participate in the reputation-ranking itself because of its arbitrary nature and the fact that schools are asked to make comparisons about other schools without any real institutional knowledge. (See the Sweet Briar president’s opinion here: <a href=“http://blog.president.sbc.edu/?p=484[/url]”>http://blog.president.sbc.edu/?p=484</a>.)</p>
<p>Sweet Briar and Hamden-Sydney are both schools that I would strongly advise applicants to visit before deciding to attend. They both have many great features, but they have a particular Southern vibe that not all students will like.</p>
<p>I hope Sweet Briar remains as old-guard as my notion of it is.<br>
The world needs places like that.</p>
<p>I’ve met a few Sweet Briar alumna over the years and they each said that the school was wonderful for them. I gather it’s sort of an ‘under the radar’ elite place, because more than a few diplomats and CEO types have daughters among the student body. Very good academics and a distinct southern charm. And it’s not a closed or rigidly exclusionary campus society. The African-American alumna I knew felt very good about her undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>The OP and the person the info that was criticized posted this over three years ago. Hopefully they got all the info they need.</p>
<p>SB recently received a large donation to support the engineering program which is rare to have at all female schools. </p>
<p>[Virginia</a> Business - News: Sweet Briar receives $3 million grant for engineering program](<a href=“http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/sweet-briar-receives-3-million-grant-for-engineering-program/203091/]Virginia”>http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/sweet-briar-receives-3-million-grant-for-engineering-program/203091/)</p>
<p>Dang! I missed it again–thank’s, Erin’s Dad.</p>