How come Vassar College is so awesome?

Answer 1

Vassar is awesome for over 2650 reasons.

(2400 students and over 250 faculty members.)

And just to correct the misinformation provided by an answerer above, Vassar is amazingly diverse as compared to other highly selective liberal arts colleges in the US. Here is some information illustrating the diversity of the 652 members of the class of 2009:

"The class of 2009 comes to Poughkeepsie from over 500 high schools in 48 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and 27 foreign countries. Students of color comprise twenty-four percent of the class, and fifty-two incoming freshmen are international students with either foreign or dual citizenship. Sixty-five members of the class are bilingual or speak English as a second language, and their languages include Bengali, Bulgarian, Cantonese, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, SiSwati, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukranian, Urdu, and Vietnamese."

In addition, "55% of Vassar students are awarded financial aid, and the college aims to meet the full need of all domestic matriculants."

In other words, students with greater financial need have an excellent chance of receiving full financial support at Vassar. This practice attracts great numbers of students who require scholarships and grants in order to afford an education. I was one of those students myself.

Source: http://admissions.vassar.edu/about_statistics.html

Answer 2

It's not awesome. There are many many schools just like it or better. Unless you prefer a basically upper middle class enclave with little diversity.

Alumni make unsubstantiated boasts. People from U. of Phoenix will tell you how great it is too.