The primary mission of the Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden is to maintain a diverse, well-documented and accurately labeled living plant collection that supports and enhances teaching and research for the faculty and students of Mount Holyoke College. The plant collection should be displayed in a well-designed, visually pleasing manner that promotes knowledge and interest in plants. The Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden should also promote conservation of the world's natural resources and a better understanding and appreciation of the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world.
< CollapseMount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Originally founded by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary on 8 November, 1837, it is the "first of the Seven Sisters" and is the oldest continuing institution of higher education for women in the United States. In addition, according to the United States Department of Education, "Mount Holyoke’s significance is that it became a model for a multitude of other women’s colleges throughout the country."
Mount Holyoke is also part of the Pioneer Valley's Five Colleges, along with Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Mount Holyoke has a student population of 2,100. Students come from "48 states and nearly 70 countries. One in three students is an international citizen or African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Thirty-three percent of incoming first-year students were in the top five percent of their high school classes".
Mount Holyoke has been part of the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission since 2001.
Mount Holyoke is a leader in producing Fulbright scholars. It also counts among its alumnae recipients of the Churchill, Datatel, Congress-Bundestag, Goldwater, Rhodes,Gates Cambridge, and Marshall scholarships and fellowships. The most popular graduate schools attended by MHC alumnae are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, Penn, Stanford, Berkeley, and Georgetown. Students looking for work directly after graduation have "direct access to 1300+ corporations and organizations" such as New York Metropolitan Opera, ESPN, MTV, NPR, Google, Microsoft, Teach For America, Goldman Sachs, Peace Corps, Harvard University (health/medicine), Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Disney Publishers, and the National Economic Research Associates.
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| Percent of Students International: | 15% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 97% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | Yes |
| Member of: | NAA, NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Basketball (New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference) Track (New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 32,598 | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 32,430 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 168 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 4,080 | 10% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 2,168 | 7% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 17,367 | 67% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 3,808 | 56% | |
Any Aid: |
73% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 53% (Highly Selective) |
| Application Fee: | $ 60.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Recommended |
| High School GPA: | Not Required |
| High School Rank: | Not Required |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Not Required |
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My sister has received an offer of admission from Mount Holyoke College, among other colleges.?
I've never heard of the institution and I was hoping someone could let me know whether it is a good school etc. I believe the college is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Btw, my sister received the prospectus for the college through a friend and decided to apply. We don't live in the United States so we're not very familiar with the institutions and probably won't get a chance to visit before the start of the school year.
19 months ago
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Yes, Mt. Holyoke is generally considered to be the third-best woman's college in the country (after Wellesley and Smith). It always ends up near or at the top of the list of all colleges for 'best campus'. They have very good academic programs and there's a free bus system to the other 4 colleges in the area (Smith, Amherst, UMass Amherst, and Hampshire) and you can take courses for free at any of those colleges. She should go visit. It's a fantastic college, so congrats to her.
EDIT: It is NOT an Ivy League college, since the Ivy League is a football league - and woman's colleges don't have football teams. It's one of the Seven Sisters, which is the woman's college equivalent of Ivy League.
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I'm a senior in high school, and I've been recently accepted into Mount Holyoke College. I'm seriously considering going there, for at least two years, and I begin January of next year. Can anyone tell me about the area? I've never been to the Eastern parts of the states.
20 months ago
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Mt. Holyoke College (or MHC) is located in South Hadley, MA and is part of the Five College Consortium consisting of MHC, Amherst College, UMass (of which I am a student), Hampshire College, and Smith College. This consortium allows students of the colleges to take classes at different schools as well as use different resources, such as the libraries. Having taken a class at MHC and having a few friends there, I can tell you a few things about it.
First, every MHC student I know, and from what I've observed first hand, has told me that South Hadley is a pretty boring town. There isn't a lot to do there, although there are plenty of campus activities to be involved in. It is located in central-western Massachusetts, which is largely agricultural (as opposed to the largely industrial and much denser eastern MA). South Hadley is near Amherst, which has tons to do, but by bus (free for five college cons. students) it's about 45 minutes one way. To get to Northampton from Mt. Holyoke probably takes over an hour, but I've never done it so I'm not sure.
Mt. Holyoke has a beautiful campus, and possibly the most beautiful of all the 5 colleges (although I would argue for Smith in Northampton). They have great academics there if a small liberal arts college for women is your goal. Both of my friends there are psychology majors and they really enjoy the department, along with one studying a music minor and the other a German minor.
So basically, it's a good school in a pretty boring town, but either through a free bus or by bringing your car you can get to Amherst or Northampton for social things fairly easily. The central-western MA area is really nice, and you're really close to NYC and Boston (about 2 hours by bus/car to either destination). Peter Pan Buses run out of Amherst and UMass, so you can use that to get to Boston or NYC.
If you need anymore information let me know.
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I'm having such a hard time deciding between MHC and UR. The financial package from both is similiar, but the campus and everything else are just so different from each other. I want to go to a small liberal arts college (let alone the advantage of MHC's 5 college consortium. But UR is known for the excellent available research.
I'm not sure what do I want to pursue, although medical is a possiblity.
20 months ago
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You will have excellent research opportunities at MHC. As a matter of fact, in the sciences, you'll have one-on-one contact with professors, opportunities for summer research programs in a lab, and an outstanding pre-med advisory program.
As a young woman, you will also have the opportunity for mentoring regarding all sorts of issues affecting women in the sciences. Not so at UR.
And not that you should choose your college by campus amenities alone, but UR is in Rochester, for goodness sakes. The Amherst area is just lovely, and really conducive to engaged study as well as an outside social life.
This, to me, is an extremely easy choice. MHC.
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which is better? Mount Holyoke College for Women in USA or University ot Toronto in Canada?
I want to enroll in an undergraduate program and want to study economics, business, maths, english, etc but my main focus will be economics.
26 months ago
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The University of Toronto has graduate degrees in all those majors as does Mount Holyoke, but Mount Holyoke has almost Ivy League status while the University of Toronto does not. In other words Mount Holyoke is better if you want to get better offers for jobs when you graduate, you will be recruited at Holyoke, but you will likely will have to search for a job with a Toronto degree.
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