Beloit College is small, and does not have the funding of other colleges. Even so, its programs are shaped to encourage students to pursue their passions, and the personalized interaction students get with its talented and enthusiastic teachers give them what they need to meet their goals. It's also a community with a place for everyone, no matter how strange or plain, scientific or artistic, ambitious or laid-back.
Do you have any tips for prospective students?
Put yourself out there as soon as you can, and sample a little bit of everything. Beloit College is made for that, and when you find that one thing you never knew how much you loved, you'll be set for life.
Do you find there’s enough academic rigor at your school?
Not a school filled with teachers who hand out easy A's, not even in the English department. However, it's also not a school that will prevent you from attending clubs, events, or pursuing personal goals by loading you with extraneous amounts of homework. You can even turn a personal project (creative, entrepreneurial, whatever) into class credit, and get help from expert faculty and access to school resources.
Describe the dorm life at your college.
Every dorm has its own charm, but even the worst dorms are forgivable when you have good friends to hang out with.
Describe the food and dining at your college.
Bon Appetit recently took over food service, and they're doing an amazing job. You can eat pizza, burgers and french fries every single day if you want...but healthy, delicious alternatives are always available, as are options for vegan and vegetarian students, as well as students with food allergies.
What’s there to do for fun at your college?
Gaming, craft, and hobby clubs, playing video games in the lounges, taking a walk to the poetry garden, seeing school and independent student plays, walking down to the bar or Bushel & Peck's for some locally-raised burgers or cheese sandwiches, playing ultimate Frisbee with some friends on the quad, having spontaneous silent raves in front of Commons just before dinner, wrestling in swimming pools full of Jell-o, making snow fortresses using recycling bins to make snow bricks, watching movies while playing the Mustache Game, kicking apart pieces of wood at the Beloit Martial Arts Club, drinking wine inside of a pillow fort, or whatever else comes to your mind or those of your friends'.
Do you feel you’re getting value for the money you’re spending on college?
Coming to Beloit was the most profitable experience of my life. It's expensive, but I changed as a person absolutely for the better. I'm happier than I've ever been thanks to the people I met and the things I learned at Beloit.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
A Bell Run is a practice in which a student takes full advantage of the school's strictly situational clothing optional policy, in which they strip themselves bare, run from The Wall (a cement space between two dorms with a raised garden which some consider the social heart of campus) to a deactivated bell located at the Morse-Ingersol building, and then back to The Wall to retrieve their clothes. Campus tradition dicatates everyone must do this at least once before they graduate.
Which types of students will excel at your college?
Creative, intuitive, inquisitive, entrepreneurial, open-minded, passionate students of all kinds, and all interests.
Are you involved in any clubs or activities?
These are what put Beloit on the map. There are clubs for all kinds of things from fencing to martial arts, from cooking to physical health. If none of the clubs offer what you want, the college even encourages you to start your own club, and will help you in the process of doing so.
Are you involved in any clubs or activities?
Something for everybody here, even if you don't fancy yourself a fraternity or sorority kind of guy/girl. If you love Anime and video games, there is at least one fraternity and sorority that you may want to look in to. Otherwise, the conventional, stereotypical frat life exists in the other organizations on campus. If you're into that.
How would you describe campus safety? Do you feel safe on campus?
There have been fewer incidents in recent years, but most of the danger of the school comes not from campus, but the high-crime areas outside of it.
Beloit College is small, and does not have the funding of other colleges. Even so, its programs are shaped to encourage students to pursue their passions, and the personalized interaction students get with its talented and enthusiastic teachers give them what they need to meet their goals. It's also a community with a place for everyone, no matter how strange or plain, scientific or artistic, ambitious or laid-back.
Put yourself out there as soon as you can, and sample a little bit of everything. Beloit College is made for that, and when you find that one thing you never knew how much you loved, you'll be set for life.
Not a school filled with teachers who hand out easy A's, not even in the English department. However, it's also not a school that will prevent you from attending clubs, events, or pursuing personal goals by loading you with extraneous amounts of homework. You can even turn a personal project (creative, entrepreneurial, whatever) into class credit, and get help from expert faculty and access to school resources.
Every dorm has its own charm, but even the worst dorms are forgivable when you have good friends to hang out with.
Bon Appetit recently took over food service, and they're doing an amazing job. You can eat pizza, burgers and french fries every single day if you want...but healthy, delicious alternatives are always available, as are options for vegan and vegetarian students, as well as students with food allergies.
Gaming, craft, and hobby clubs, playing video games in the lounges, taking a walk to the poetry garden, seeing school and independent student plays, walking down to the bar or Bushel & Peck's for some locally-raised burgers or cheese sandwiches, playing ultimate Frisbee with some friends on the quad, having spontaneous silent raves in front of Commons just before dinner, wrestling in swimming pools full of Jell-o, making snow fortresses using recycling bins to make snow bricks, watching movies while playing the Mustache Game, kicking apart pieces of wood at the Beloit Martial Arts Club, drinking wine inside of a pillow fort, or whatever else comes to your mind or those of your friends'.
Coming to Beloit was the most profitable experience of my life. It's expensive, but I changed as a person absolutely for the better. I'm happier than I've ever been thanks to the people I met and the things I learned at Beloit.
A Bell Run is a practice in which a student takes full advantage of the school's strictly situational clothing optional policy, in which they strip themselves bare, run from The Wall (a cement space between two dorms with a raised garden which some consider the social heart of campus) to a deactivated bell located at the Morse-Ingersol building, and then back to The Wall to retrieve their clothes. Campus tradition dicatates everyone must do this at least once before they graduate.
Creative, intuitive, inquisitive, entrepreneurial, open-minded, passionate students of all kinds, and all interests.
These are what put Beloit on the map. There are clubs for all kinds of things from fencing to martial arts, from cooking to physical health. If none of the clubs offer what you want, the college even encourages you to start your own club, and will help you in the process of doing so.
Something for everybody here, even if you don't fancy yourself a fraternity or sorority kind of guy/girl. If you love Anime and video games, there is at least one fraternity and sorority that you may want to look in to. Otherwise, the conventional, stereotypical frat life exists in the other organizations on campus. If you're into that.
There have been fewer incidents in recent years, but most of the danger of the school comes not from campus, but the high-crime areas outside of it.