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Introduction from the Author
A school search is typically a source of anxiety, as the eager high-school student tries to reconcile both a dizzying amount of statistics and the unquantifiable feelings each campus triggers. I remember a particular trip I took with my parents: six schools in seven days! I loved three of them, liked two, and categorically refused to set foot on the sixth after only a glance. Who knows why some campuses strike us the way they do? It is my hope that this guide will inform you as you try to make your choice. Although campus visits are wonderful, they’re only a day or two, so it is impossible to really get at the heart of a school.
The essence of Franklin & Marshall College is that its students care about their studies, but more importantly, they care about the citizens that they will become. Caring, involved, and enthusiastic, F&M students spend their four (or three and a half to five) years in Lancaster, on that 170-acre piece of paradise in the middle of a city, learning how to teach themselves, once they graduate, by the example set by their professors. The students are valued members of a community, prized for their knowledge and hard work, and they’re given almost infinite scope for their drive, enthusiasm, and determination to succeed. But their ambition doesn’t have the hypercompetitive drive of an MIT or University of Chicago. Instead, F&M students come to themselves amidst a welcoming, vibrant community of peers, both fellow students and faculty. Students do research, both original and as contributors to larger studies, perform experiments, put on shows, and learn to think, write, and create.!
It is my hope that you, in your college search, will come to admire and love F&M as much as I do now. I want to be honest as you learn about F&M—no school is perfect, and Franklin & Marshall is no exception to the rule. F&M students do complain, but we do so perfectly content in the knowledge that our concerns will be heard, recognized, and addressed. Our president’s door is never closed to us, administrators know hundreds of us by name and most of us by face, and of course, e-mail is 24/7. Everyone, from the greenest first-year to the most blasé senior, makes a difference in the quality of life at F&M.
Ellen Baier, Author
Franklin & Marshall College
A school search is typically a source of anxiety, as the eager high-school student tries to reconcile both a dizzying amount of statistics and the unquantifiable feelings each campus triggers. I remember a particular trip I took with my parents: six schools in seven days! I loved three of them, liked two, and categorically refused to set foot on the sixth after only a glance. Who knows why some campuses strike us the way they do? It is my hope that this guide will inform you as you try to make your choice. Although campus visits are wonderful, they’re only a day or two, so it is impossible to really get at the heart of a school.
The essence of Franklin & Marshall College is that its students care about their studies, but more importantly, they care about the citizens that they will become. Caring, involved, and enthusiastic, F&M students spend their four (or three and a half to five) years in Lancaster, on that 170-acre piece of paradise in the middle of a city, learning how to teach themselves, once they graduate, by the example set by their professors. The students are valued members of a community, prized for their knowledge and hard work, and they’re given almost infinite scope for their drive, enthusiasm, and determination to succeed. But their ambition doesn’t have the hypercompetitive drive of an MIT or University of Chicago. Instead, F&M students come to themselves amidst a welcoming, vibrant community of peers, both fellow students and faculty. Students do research, both original and as contributors to larger studies, perform experiments, put on shows, and learn to think, write, and create.!
It is my hope that you, in your college search, will come to admire and love F&M as much as I do now. I want to be honest as you learn about F&M—no school is perfect, and Franklin & Marshall is no exception to the rule. F&M students do complain, but we do so perfectly content in the knowledge that our concerns will be heard, recognized, and addressed. Our president’s door is never closed to us, administrators know hundreds of us by name and most of us by face, and of course, e-mail is 24/7. Everyone, from the greenest first-year to the most blasé senior, makes a difference in the quality of life at F&M.
Ellen Baier, Author
Franklin & Marshall College
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Once a book is written, additional students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team—a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project—are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the book accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the 200-plus schools College Prowler currently covers. Each book is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every school that we cover. It’s no easy accomplishment, but it’s the reason that our guides are such a great resource.
When reading our books and looking at our grades, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each school are not uniform—as a result, it is important to assess schools on a case-by-case basis. Because it’s impossible to summarize an entire school with a single number or description, each book provides a dialogue, not a decision, that’s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!
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- PublisherCollege Prowler
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1427400628
- ISBN 13 9781427400628
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages180
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