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Davidson College

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Academics

“Professors here live in the surrounding community. Most will invite their classes over for dinner or dessert at least once each semester. In a recent English seminar, my professor invited us all to her house for our final meeting of the year. There, we...”

Diversity

“Campus diversity is one of the few gripes I have about Davidson. It isn’t very racially diverse, but there are lots of the same types of people. It is understandable that many people with similar interests would come to a school like Davidson, but I had...”

Guys & Girls

“When giving tours, I often hear prospective students of both sexes saying that the students here are hot.”

Athletics

“About 25 percent of our student body participates in some form of athletics. Most games are well-attended, with men’s soccer and basketball being the biggest spectator sports on campus. Students do not have to pay for tickets or wait in line for any...”
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Academics

Students make it clear: academics at Davidson are some of the strongest the liberal arts have to offer. Praise runs especially high for the low student-to-teacher ratio, as well as the accessible, dedicated, and brilliant faculty. Complaints are mostly related to the relatively small number of majors offered, and more universally, the workload. In fact, Davidson is notorious for its generous workload and less-than-generous grade inflation (it’s more like grade deflation.) Yet, while Davidson students often...

Diversity

If Davidson consistently fields one criticism as an institution, this is it. Diversity is a hot topic on campus, resurfacing in conversations among students and Admissions officials alike. Each semester, the Davidsonian, the student-run newspaper, prints multiple articles addressing issues of diversity on campus, all proceeding from one basic conclusion: there simply isn’t enough of it. The numbers, in fact, reflect this, with just above twelve percent of the student body composed of racial minorities each...

Guys & Girls

Here’s an interesting phenomenon: Davidson students can never seem to decide whether the student body is hot or not. Even so, while many won’t hesitate to point out that the selection here doesn’t compare to bigger schools, most still feel students here are pretty attractive considering the limited number of people of the opposite sex. Maybe it’s the climate, maybe it’s the easygoing Southern atmosphere, but there is some merit to the old saying that the ‘girls are prettier down South.’ As it turns out, the...

Athletics

Davidson is unique in its position as one of the smallest schools participating in NCAA Division I sports—and the whole college takes pride in its ‘Davidson vs. Goliath’ role. If students aren’t among the 25 percent playing a varsity sport, chances are they’re participating in club or intramural teams, or out in the stands rooting everyone else on. Still, students note that academics come first here, and that they’re frequently impressed with their friends’ abilities to succeed both in the classroom and on...
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