Sweet Briar College prepares women (and at the graduate level, men as well) to be productive, responsible members of a world community. It focuses on personal and professional achievement through a customized educational program that combines the liberal arts, preparation for careers, and individual development. The faculty and staff guide students to become active learners, to reason clearly, to speak and write persuasively, and to lead with integrity. They do so by creating an educational environment that is both intense and supportive and where learning occurs in many different venues, including the classroom, the community and the world.
< CollapseSweet Briar College is a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, about north of Lynchburg, Virginia. The school is named after the former Sweet Briar plantation, which was likely named for the sweet briar rose. The school’s motto translates to: "She who earns the rose may bear it." The Admissions Office’s current theme is "Think is for Girls." SBC is one of only a few colleges or universities that has pink as an official color.
Sweet Briar College is located on the former plantation of Elijah Fletcher and his family. In the 19th century, Fletcher was a teacher, businessman and mayor of Lynchburg. His wife, Maria Crawford, is credited with naming the land Sweet Briar. By the mid-1800s, Fletcher had between 80 and 100 slaves at the plantation. After their emancipation in 1865, several continued to work for pay and live at Sweet Briar. When Elijah Fletcher died, his daughter, Indiana, inherited the plantation. When she passed in 1900, she willed the land and much of her assets to starting a college for women. The goal, as stated by Williams, was to prepare young women to be "useful members of society."
The campus is situated on in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The college's architecture is dominated by the work of Ralph Adams Cram, who also lent his architectural expertise to the campuses of Princeton University and West Point, among others. The campus property also includes the Sweet Briar plantation burial ground, in which upwards of 60 slaves were buried. A slave cabin remains on the land as well, and archaeologists have found many slave artifacts that have helped them to piece together what slave life might have been like at Sweet Briar. 21 of the 30 buildings on campus have been designated as the "Sweet Briar National Historic District" by the National Register of Historic Places.
Sweet Briar is home to The Center for Civic Renewal, The Virginia Law-Related Education Center and the Junior Year in France and Junior Year in Spain programs.
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| Percent of Students International: | 4% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 76% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | Yes |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 22,230 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 200 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 3,790 | 18% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 2,265 | 44% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 9,542 | 90% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 4,109 | 47% | |
Any Aid: |
90% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 79% (Selective) |
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| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 94% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 530, Math: 500 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 640, Math: 590 |
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| % of Students Submitting ACT Scores: | 41% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Composite: 22, Verbal: 22, Math: 19 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Composite: 27, Verbal: 29, Math: 26 |
| Application Fee: | $ 40.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Required |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Recommended |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
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Question:
Anybody here go to Sweet Briar College?
If so, do you like it? Is it respected? What's there to do? Do you miss having boys around?
20 months ago
Best Answer
According to the book "The Best 361 Colleges," Sweet Briar College "is often portrayed as the perfect Southern all-women's school." And since it's a small school (only 700 or so undergraduates), each student gets a lot of individual attention from the professors. The students say "Sweetbriar is all about doing it all: Playing a varsity sport, holding a leadership position in ten different clubs, having a boyfriend, having three campus jobs, anfd earning an amazing GPA, all while wearing pearls and pink bow in your hair."
It "attracts the ambitious, confident woman who enjoys being immersed not only in a first-rate academic program, but in a variety of meaningful activities outside the classroom."
Here are some fast facts about Sweet Briar:
- small classes
- no one cheats
- lab facilities are great
- great computer facilities
- great library
- students are friendly
- dorms are like palaces
- students are happy
- frats or sororities are unpopular or nonexistent
- student government is popular.
I haven't actually attended Sweet Briar, but it sounds like a good school to me. I hope this information helps!
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