The College of Saint Rose

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• Anthony Bruno
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  Overpriced and cliquey, but nice school with great faculty.
  
  Graduated with BA in Sociology in 2010.
  
  Pros- very small class sizes. Around 30 for core liberal arts education courses, 15-20 for more focused courses in your major. I feel like straight out of high school, this is what I needed. Most of the faculty is great. The school is small so there is definitely a sense of community and you will see the same classmates in many different courses. The facilities like the auditorium, gym, cafeteria, library, bookstore, laboratories, etc- are awesome and were just recently renovated. The school is in a fairly convenient location (walking distance to downtown Albany). You can get buy without a car- but might not be a bad idea to get a beater for weekend outings and running errands as the Capital Region is not super accessible.
  
  Cons- For what it is, its very expensive. Saint Rose has many great programs, but it is essentially a "teacher factory". Most teachers in New York are going to be paying their loans forever (if they can find a job). Id steer away unless you are a rich kid, or getting one hell of a scholarship deal. The dorm/ housing situation is horrible. Theirs two nice dorm halls (Lima, Alumni Hall) which are decent and right on campus but do not have central air conditioning- then a hodge podge of private houses scattered around- then Brubacher Hall- a late 1800s sanitarium style dump that should be condemned about a half mile away. My advice would be to put up with dorm life your freshman year so you can make friends and form cliques- then rent an apartment together from then on. Its cheaper than staying in a dorm, and you won't have to deal with RAs and rules. The student body is very non-diverse and cliquey. Its probably about 80% white upper middle class kids either local from the capital region or from the Poughkeepsie area. Despite becoming coed in the 70s, its still about a 2/1 female to male ratio if not higher. The campus is nestled right in the middle of downtown Albany, and spread out crossed multiple blocks so lots of random people cut through the campus- creating a security risk.
  
  Overall mixed opinions but Im glad I went.

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