Student Profile
Andrea
- Class: Senior
- Major: Mathematics
- Gender: F
- High School:
- Transfer Student: N
Big Picture
Colorado College is all about the block plan. It is what makes it unique and interesting, as well as what makes it a particularly challenging academic environment, its understood that only certain people do well on the block plan...its sort of a self selective program. I think the size of the school was great up untill senior year when you run out of new people to meet other than the freshmen (not always the most desirable friends for a senior), so it could probably go a little bigger, but I wouldn't want the size of the classes to increase.
Academic Life
Academics at CC are great, the classes are small and intimate, I've had classes with only one or two other people in them where we meet around the professors desk. Even for the larger classes (the maximum being 25), you develop a close relationship with your professors. The professors are incredibly available for help and flexible when accomodations of any sort are needed. I've often had dinner at professors' houses, or had parties at students' houses to which the professor was invited. Classes can be as hard or easy as the student desires them to be, some professors may be easy graders but if you work hard you get as much out of a class as you would from a professor which requires six times as much of you. Some professors are really hard, but as long as you're up for it you're likely to produce work which makes you truly proud. Their are probably a few too many classes (in the humanities, I'm biased as a math/science person) which you can simply bull-*** your way through. But the sciences are incredibly rigorous, requiring lab attendence nearly every day for many hours.
Student Body
CC has a pretty diverse religious life as it is a liberal arts school attracting lots of agnostic/buddhist/spiritual as well as atheist types from the north-east, but at the same time, it attracts lots of locals from the Colorado Springs area, these students tend to either come from right-wing evangelical backgrounds or ascribe to those beliefs themselves, this creates an interesting dynamic in all religious relations. On the other hand the racial diversity is pathetic, there are very few black students who tend to stick together, and maybe one or two "native americans" who easily pass for white. There are lots of lesbians, but very few gay men...not quite sure why. CC, for obvious reasons, lacks a middle class. Wealthy people predominate but there is no shortage of scholarship students as CC offers incredibly generous scholarships, most people are either on full scholarship or pay full tuition, its hard to find anyone inbetween, and those that are have difficulty participating in the full "CC experience" which involves taking classes around the country and around the world as well as taking extravegant block break trips.
The Best Things
The Block Plan
The Worst Things
Too many wealthy kids
