Clark University is in Worcester, Massachusetts, about 40 miles due east of Boston. This is one of the “Colleges that Change Lives.” I loved Clark; I had the same feel for it that I had when I visited The Marin School: warm, nurturing, different, exciting, “thinking outside the box”, with emphasis on close student/professor interactions. Unfortunately, my son thought it was definitely too small – about 2100 undergraduate students. He also didn’t like Worcester at all and felt like it was in the middle of nowhere. He did agree that the campus itself was neat, with lots of energy.
In addition to all of the great programs Clark offers, they’ve introduced a new one: students can now stay for a fifth year at Clark and earn a Master’s Degree for free. They also have a writing center, where students can bring any paper they’ve written, and a member of the writing center will go through the entire paper and edit it. Lots of student support.
- Contributed by the Jordan family.
