Hobart and William Smith Colleges

THEY ALLOW THEIR STUDENTS TO BE RAPED!!!
AVOID THIS SCHOOL!!!
From NY Times: She was 18 years old, a freshman, and had been on campus for just two weeks when one Saturday night last September her friends grew worried because she had been drinking and suddenly disappeared.
The Kappa Sigma fraternity house on campus ALLOWED THIS

I have so many good things to say about HWS that I am not sure it could fit in a Unilocal review!
Let me just list some of my favorite aspects of HWS:
The people — President Gearan is one of the smartest, civically minded, dedicated, and successful people you will ever meet. I think that he is one of the greatest assets of HWS along with his wonderful family. He and his family made my time at HWS so memorable. Also, the professors are fantastic. I graduated almost 3 yrs ago and continue to collaborate on research articles with one of my undergraduate mentors. The relationships you develop with the people at HWS can really last years, if not a lifetime. There are so many great people on campus it is hard to list them all — but I want to give a shoutout to the Admissions staff and the Alumni House staff who are also fun and awesome! Woo.
The campus — The campus is beautiful and they do a good job of renovating and keeping it up-​to-​date for the most part. Also, you are on a 35 mile long lake in the middle of NY wine country! Yes, that means wine tasting, wine tours and wine class (.5 of a credit!). This is absolutely appropriate considering it is freezing and miserable 6 months out of the year so they need to make up for this in some way — aka their proximity to vineyards and wineries. Also, you can basically navigate between any 2 points on campus in 20 minutes.
The education — My undergrad education absolutely prepared me for my post-​college life and has set me up for a PhD program. Overall, the professors were knowledgeable, dedicated and fair. If you work hard and are intelligent, you will do well. I feel as if many of my professors had high standards that pushed me to always do my best.
Basically, I love HWS and think that the opportunities overall are hard to parallel. The study abroad, community service and career development opportunities are all excellent and worth the ~$ 53,000/yr pricetag!

OK, time to review my alma mater. Kinda tough, given that I almost have to give it 5 stars…
but this past summer, back for reunion, they did it up in style. gave us the freedom and flexibility to choose from a number of planned activities, or do nothing at all, and hang out on the quad until 3 a.m., even giving us unfettered access to the sound system, so we could blast 80’s tunes on the sound system.
Everything for reunion was done extremely well, which reflects the leadership of President Gearen and the culture of the school that hasn’t changed signficantly since I left many years ago.
Hell, even Professor Marvin Bram is still tooling around on his 1950’s era bike.
Great school, excellent faculty and students. Hidden gem. Thanks Bishop Hobart!