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This place is unbelievably horrible.Quite BrightEconomics
This place is unbelievably horrible. You will spend your school nights up late in the library after attempting to drown your sorrows in the prison food they serve in Kimball. If you're one of the lucky ones, on weekends you'll die of heatstroke in a small hot dorm while shotgunning beer quietly in an attempt to avoid the RAs. Or, on Thursdays, you can go to the singular bar in the cesspool that is Worcester and subject yourself to the judgment eyes of 1/3 of the school's population. Most of the girls here are English majors prancing around in their Barbour jacket and Tori Birch boots eyeing the Blonde haired Econ major thats going to pay their bills for the rest of their lives. STAY HOME. GO TO A PARTY SCHOOL. GET ADDICTED TO METH. Anything is better than this.
1st Year Female -- Class 2016
Faculty Accessibility: A+, Innovation: F
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Newsweek calculated colleges' return on investment.Quite BrightEconomics
Newsweek calculated colleges' return on investment. The top five schools in the country? Princeton, Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams ? and Holy Cross. The College of the Holy Cross is one of the most academically rigorous and best value colleges in the country, according to Newsweek's 2011 college rankings. Holy Cross was fifth in the nation for ?Return on Investment? and came in at number 22 on the magazine's ?Most Rigorous? list.

To come up with their rankings, which were divided into 25 categories, Newsweek ?looked at what American kids really care about these days, and also pulled from sources including the National Center for Education Statistics, the College Board, the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, the Sustainable Endowment Institute, a data partnership with the Washington Monthly? (which recently ranked Holy Cross 39th on their list of the top liberal arts colleges.)

3rd Year Female -- Class 2012
Education Quality: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: B
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It was a wonderful college, top notch professorsQuite BrightEconomics
It was a wonderful college, top notch professors from whom I learned not only about relevant coursework but also valuable life skills. The professors TRULY care about your life and well being beyond the classroom and beyond your four years on campus.

My friends were wonderful, still keep in touch with them 16 years later despite being on opposite ends of the country and having busy family lives of our own.

All of my friends who graduated with me went on to be successful in our chose careers.THe only negative is the lack of opportunities for culture which is offered in Worcester. Luckily, when I felt "trapped" by the winter weather on campus, Boston was merely a bus ride away.

4th Year Female -- Class 1994
Education Quality: A+, Surrounding City: D+
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