Dickinson College — Local services in Carlisle

I love the college grounds!! Great down town! Very professional admissions office with very adequate follow-up...! (very adequate means, being from a metropolitan area myself, I didn't expect anything beyond a few lame words of luke warm support from burnt out administrative zombies and was pleasantly surprised by their warmth and follow thru).

Still waiting to see the results of the education, my student has only just begun. Seems promising!!

--edit: Hi ! It was a long haul, with COVID in there during their education and a semester abroad (in Denmark!), with a workload that sounded rewardingly likely to bring a fruitful career in a field relating to psychology and also sounded enriching in the ancillary, my impressions after graduation are that this was a classy, intellectually and socially positive experience the most challenging of which seems to have been the growing pains all young people experience living within the confines of any old where, learning how to resolve social conflict, negatively charged romantic interests and all the other human type challenges.

I'd recommend this school over many others I've heard about, balancing the cosmopolitan and the parochial or bucolic. It wasn't all peaches and cream but the only negative I seem to remember is the smell of whatever the hell it is that the farmers around Carlisle are spreading on their fields which is one of the most disgusting smells I've ever experienced but only seemed to encounter it outside of town and not on or...

Grads make 40-60k entry after grad? I haven't made 40-60k after 3 years. Combined. This college is an entertainment for high schoolers who aren't bored enough to get a job; paid for by parents, exclusively. How much money can we give you to get a degree to prove that we've been trained in nothing? I can totally write a report, I can take direction, but there are no jobs that this school prepared you for, and their career dept is worthless.

But hey, pretty sure I at least had decent...

Great Liberal Arts College. Dickinson has a very strong and demanding Science curriculum. Professors are extremely interested in seeing their students succeed and will go the extra mile if they see you do the same. It may be a little tough to adapt from a very urban environment, however, being in Dickinson takes many distractions away from an urban environment. Everything is close and one doesn’t have to worry about transportation from one place to another because everyone walks or...