<p>It looks pretty good to me. Can anyone tell me anything else about the school? I definitely like the area, but I don't know a whole lot more about it. Any help would be appreciated! Time is running out....and I need more matches/safeties.</p>
<p>Yar! I'm applying there this coming year as a safety. I'll see what I cam remember...</p>
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<li>Volunteering in the community is BIG there.</li>
<li>There were a lot of Asian kids in their viewbook.</li>
<li>Academics are ace. Classes are SMALL.</li>
<li>It's EXPENSIVE (duh).</li>
<li>Lots of, uh, trees. Yeah.</li>
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<p>Okay it isn't much that I remember from the viewbook about the school itself, but the area is definately great. I lived in Puget Sound when I was about eight, and I remember the place pretty well. Nice weather, plenty of great places to go (like parks with their own lakes that you can actually swim in without worrying about getting radiation ><). And it smelled pretty good (duh. Evergreen State).
I also remember lots of big open spaces, and deer running out in the middle of the road (and my mom panicking and hitting the brakes). </p>
<p>And if it helps, I'm applying there because Seattle is a plus- rock concerts galore!</p>
<p>Wow, thanks! That's exactly the kind of answer I needed. Anyone else? I heard that UPS has a business administration program - is that true?</p>
<p>University of Pudget Sound overlaps with schools like:</p>
<p>University of Richmond
Bucknell (sin engineering)
Trinity University (TX)</p>
<p>Really, I found that if you like one or two of those schools, you'll enjoy them all. Generally, you'll find the school offers a bit more than the typical New England liberal arts college, good business programs, not the best, but Puget Sound does fairly well at getting students into grad school, it's name is just not widely recognized.</p>
<p>In terms of expense, UPS does about the same as most liberal arts college with financial aid, they don't graduate with debt anymore gastronomical then Dickinson, Gettysburg, Richmond, Kenyon, Trinity (CT), & Marist.</p>
<p>The main reason why Pugey-Pugey didn't make my list was that the school, local community, and area (the North End) that was that homogenous, very quaint and peaceful, but not fit for me.</p>
<p>Besides being good in business and psychology, if you're interested in the hard or earth sciences, the biology, geology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics departments are all superb and will all be housed in new green-buildings by 2008, most already rehoused in new facilities opening this year.</p>
<p>The school is also pretty big on sustainability, much like my old school, to top it all off. (Now I see my issues, sounds just like my old school except mine was on a mountainside in the Adirondacks)</p>
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<p>Ummn, yeah and Tacoma (where UPS is located) is where they process asll those trees. It's known as the "Tacoma Aroma" and leaves the city (school included) smelling like crap.</p>
<p>Beautiful school though.</p>
<p>Puget Sound has been on an upward climb since I left. There is no way I could get in there now. </p>
<p>The classes and academics are first rate and the new President Ron Thomas really "gets" the importance of the school to the community and that is making it an even better school. He has done a lot and will continue to.</p>
<p>If S had wanted a LAC instead of an SA he would have been there.</p>
<p>Great school. Great leadership.</p>
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<p>Ummn, yeah and Tacoma (where UPS is located) is where they process asll those trees. It's known as the "Tacoma Aroma" and leaves the city (school included) smelling like crap.</p>
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Also, Tacoma no longer smells. And back when it did, the prevailing winds never brought the smell to the campus.</p>
<p>UPS was always sort of the last seat on the bus in Northwest higher education circles. It was not much discussed and always a distant thought behind UW, Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, and even Pacific Lutheran University. I can't dispute anything positive that has been said on this post. I do remember that it had/has a reputation for being expensive but frugal with student aid. And they sold their law school to SU about12 years ago.</p>
<p>Behind Seattle Pacific? Wow, that's a pretty tough back seat to take, really...if I were to judge... I would say Seattle Pacific and Pacific Lutheran are behind Puget Sound academically and at neck with Seattle University.</p>
<p>heh heh... "UPS"</p>
<p>Expensive? Definitely. Upwards of $30,000 per year, but if cost is truly an issue, the school will provide, which is how aid at many expensive, privates work. I just graduated HS in the Seattle area and I know a handful of kids going to UPS in the fall some of whom got pretty sweet financial aid deals. With that said, these kids was also very low-income, which may not apply to you.</p>
<p>Oye vey, when you're eight, your an optimist and you tend to notice the nicer things.</p>
<p>But that's good that Tacoma smells better than it used to. I loved Tacoma back then because that's where Chucky Cheese's was. ^^</p>
<p>The Puget Sound is an excellent place to be.. I can truly say that as a seattlite! I've heard that UPS has very good academics but isn't quite so hard to get into as other schools of equal caliber. It's a small school so you get a lot of attention, though it is very expensive. It is in Tacoma, which is known to smell not so great (due to a paper factory), but I've never noticed much when I've gone down there. I'd definitely consider it.</p>
<p>Is this place related to University Pungent Smell?</p>
<p>Sounds good to me, except for the smell part, of course. I thought it was classified as a "best buy" school in the Fiske Guide.....</p>
<p>TACOMA DOESN'T SMELL ANY MORE.</p>
<p>Anyway prevailing winds are from the west and the wind blew from away from the campus toward the paper mills and then toward Fife.</p>