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Hampshire College is the perfect place for people who consider themselves alternative learners. Small class sizes, personal evaluations, and dedicated professors make Hampshire a great place for learning. However, it's a very specific type of learning and doesn't work for everyone.

I don't know if I'll be attending but I definitely am considering it now that I was accepted. I received a nice scholarship but no aid from Hampshire. Kind of a bummer but overall I really liked the diversity and quirkiness of Hampshire!

Hampshire College was the perfect fit for me because it has allowed me to open my mind to anything and everything that I am interested in. Hampshire is a place of discussion, rather than just passive learning, and I have learned how to appreciate the knowledge I obtain due to the fact that we do not receive grades at Hampshire. Not only is Hampshire great academically, this school has also provided me with many tools and resources to find work, student groups, and excellent advising.

Hampshire is a place of processes. The focus is not necessarily on how well you do something, but how you do it and more importantly, how you learn from it. The college encourages passions and interests.

This is a school for unique, self-motiviated, and brainy students. You will meet a lot of artists, nerds, political activists, and freaky sort of students. It's a very welcoming school that can be as easy or as rigourous as you choose to make it.

A great school that follows the New College Plan. Definitely a great school for the liberal arts. Reccommended for students looking for an innovative way to learn.

Hampshire College gives you a life-changing academic program and community. I might even say you will learn as much or more from immersing yourself in the community as you will in your courses. It's not for everyone, but give it a chance.

Hampshire may not be the right place for everyone, students are typically very independent, self-directed, and interested in hands on experience. The curriculum is set up in such a way that allows students to experiment in various areas of interest, building up to a deeper understanding of concentrations and later on a one year project on the subject matter. Students are different, interesting, accepting, and artsy.

Hampshire gives their students freedom in the kind of education they pursue. You have copious amounts of resources because of the 5 school consortium. The campus is beautiful and the area is great.

Hampshire College is a remarkable institution in which I have been able to explore my interests and discover new passions that I would not have otherwise discovered. Their innovative take on learning and teaching allows the student to pursue education on an individualized basis, making each experience idiosyncratic to each student. This, combined with their renunciation of the obviously flawed letter grading system, allows the student at Hampshire College to form their own curriculum, shaped according to their needs, and evaluated on the basis of human observation rather than blind mathematical computation.