This is a fantastic school in the middle of nowhere. Not many people have heard about it, but they really should have. If you want a great education about anything doing with food, hospitality, wildlife, or forestry, this school is definitely one that you should be checking out.
Do you have any tips for prospective students?
Bring warm clothes and a willingness to work your butt of to get to the top.
The temperature during the winter can get to thirty below easily, and while you're snowed in, you might as well work on acing all your classes! Also, make friends with the baking students and they will feed you very well.
Do you find there’s enough academic rigor at your school?
I can only speak for the culinary and liberal arts schools, but the teachers and chefs know what they're doing. It can be a struggle at times, but it's all worth it; the teachers will never overload you with work that's out of your range of skill, they will push you past what you thought was your limit and make you a better student than you thought was possible. The teachers here are so experienced and well-taught themselves, we're honestly on-par with many Ivy-League schools from an education standpoint.
Describe the dorm life at your college.
Everyone's super friendly up here, and that extends to everyone that lives in the dorm. While quiet hours aren't always enforced with an iron fist, it's not as though everyone's playing rugby in the hallways 24/7; they usually save that for the weekend! If you forget to bring something up, chances are someone will be kind enough to lend theirs to you; since a lot of us are up here without any form of transportation, we look after each other like family.
Describe the food and dining at your college.
As stated before, make friends with the baking students and their chefs and they will feed you crazy well! Otherwise, the culinary kids don't usually share their amazing food (because there's so little of it to go around) and the food in the dining hall is, to be honest, quite a bit less than stellar. Be sure to ask mom and dad for plenty of care packages, snack food goes quick up here!
What’s there to do for fun at your college?
In all honesty, we're pretty far out in the sticks up here. The nearest town is 12 miles away and even then there's not a whole lot to do in town. If you enjoy the outdoors, there's hiking, skiing and snowboarding (or sledding if you can't handle that stuff), two ropes courses to monkey around on, and plenty of lean-to's you can canoe to and have a fire at. If you're more the indoors-y type or can't stand the winter cold, the faculty puts on plenty of fun events, and there's also a rock-climbing wall, indoor gym with a heated pool, and tons of other stuff to do.
This is a fantastic school in the middle of nowhere. Not many people have heard about it, but they really should have. If you want a great education about anything doing with food, hospitality, wildlife, or forestry, this school is definitely one that you should be checking out.
Bring warm clothes and a willingness to work your butt of to get to the top. The temperature during the winter can get to thirty below easily, and while you're snowed in, you might as well work on acing all your classes! Also, make friends with the baking students and they will feed you very well.
I can only speak for the culinary and liberal arts schools, but the teachers and chefs know what they're doing. It can be a struggle at times, but it's all worth it; the teachers will never overload you with work that's out of your range of skill, they will push you past what you thought was your limit and make you a better student than you thought was possible. The teachers here are so experienced and well-taught themselves, we're honestly on-par with many Ivy-League schools from an education standpoint.
Everyone's super friendly up here, and that extends to everyone that lives in the dorm. While quiet hours aren't always enforced with an iron fist, it's not as though everyone's playing rugby in the hallways 24/7; they usually save that for the weekend! If you forget to bring something up, chances are someone will be kind enough to lend theirs to you; since a lot of us are up here without any form of transportation, we look after each other like family.
As stated before, make friends with the baking students and their chefs and they will feed you crazy well! Otherwise, the culinary kids don't usually share their amazing food (because there's so little of it to go around) and the food in the dining hall is, to be honest, quite a bit less than stellar. Be sure to ask mom and dad for plenty of care packages, snack food goes quick up here!
In all honesty, we're pretty far out in the sticks up here. The nearest town is 12 miles away and even then there's not a whole lot to do in town. If you enjoy the outdoors, there's hiking, skiing and snowboarding (or sledding if you can't handle that stuff), two ropes courses to monkey around on, and plenty of lean-to's you can canoe to and have a fire at. If you're more the indoors-y type or can't stand the winter cold, the faculty puts on plenty of fun events, and there's also a rock-climbing wall, indoor gym with a heated pool, and tons of other stuff to do.