Sarah Lawrence College — Local services in City of Yonkers

First of all, because Sarah Lawrence offers such individualized education, the very structuring of it is not for everyone. I would suggest that anyone interested really do your due-diligence and research (any school) thoroughly before applying to attend. It takes a self-motivated, driven, consistent, inquisitive, and concerned individual to really thrive at SLC. Second of all, SLC, like any other college, has its pros and cons. One of the most obvious cons, is its price tag. At over $60K a year, it is not inexpensive. However, it is also worth every penny, so long as your pennies are geared toward the ultimate goals of growing as a person, globally responsible citizen, and person who lives with purpose, you will get your money's worth. I have seen and heard many people base where they plan to go to school or send their chldren to school on "employment viability." No college can guarantee you employment after graduating (there are lawyers who are currently unemployed in our rollercoaster economy, Ivy Leaguers who find themselves in clerical positions). That said, I would strongly encourage people to stop/ not look to a college degree to guarantee a job. College education does not serve that function anymore and has not for some time. Instead, college is a test sight, think tank, and giant networking event all rolled into one. It has become a launchpad for acting careers, musicians, app creators, culture bloggers and counter-culture activist. It is the bedrock upon which leaders of movements and literary greats alike, stand.

As for the writing, anyone who says they came to SLC and did not come out a better writer is putting themselves on blast. If it is not anything else, Sarah Lawrence is a writing school. And, it is not just any writing school; it is nationally-ranked and globally-renowned as one of the best. Writing is central to the curriculum whether that is your area of concentration or not. It is emphasized, expounded upon, and taught in an olio of styles.

As a Class of 2007 graduate of SLC (right at the height of the US's most recent Recession), I was under or unemployed for roughly a year after graduating. However, what I was doing, I was happy. And more importantly, my SLC education equipped me with the wear-withal to see the next few steps beyond my then-current situation; to have the moxie, creativity, and chutzpah to push through the rougher career patches.

No, SLC isn't for everybody. Of course, then again, one of our most well-known mottoes wouldn't be, "You are different. So are...

When a school withdraws an offer of admission because you're asking too many hard questions, you know something is rotten. Which was an injury added to the insult of being unresponsive and then short to my follow-up inquiries. The end result was either meaningless because I wouldn't have attended anyways or a blessing in disguise - the place seemed sad (if beautiful) and the students unimpressive on my visit - but that doesn't excuse their behavior.

Maybe they've grown used to farming naive young writers to prop up what appears to be an undergrad program bleeding money, and hate it when someone asks difficult questions about how exactly the grad program is designed to facilitate meaningful outcomes. Or maybe the asking of questions is the mark of someone who truly is a bad fit for Sarah Lawrence College (which is to my mind a much more serious indictment of the place). Either way to summarily end a conversation and unilaterally withdraw admission in the middle of an email exchange in which nothing rude or even inappropriate was said is very strange (to say the least) and not the mark of an estimable place of higher learning, much less a decent group of...

Chose Hampshire College over both Emerson College in Boston and SLC in the end, because being from Brooklyn, I wanted to go to college up in New England FOR REAL and I needed the COMPLETELY interdisciplinary academic structure Hampshire offers. I figured the Amherst/Northampton area & Hampshire were more indicative of that then Boston or Bronxville would have been. 😁 Still, I ❤️'d all three colleges pretty equally, and for awhile it was a toss up as to where I'd go. They were my top three college choices after all. I also applied to nearby Manhattanville College (now Manhattanville University) & SUNY Purchase.

I REALLY ❤️'d SLC's Theater & Film Production Departments, because of the affiliation SLC has with the British American Drama Academy (BADA) & Yale School of Drama. Had I gone to SLC I probably would have had an easier route into BADA for Field Study as an undergrad & then Yale for grad school; but I still managed to get there via Hampshire, since Hampshire and SLC do have a fairly good connection with each...