clsmith1990

Just a general bit about Clemson: a few people already touched on it but I cannot stress enough how cool Greenville, SC is for SC city. It's 40 minutes from me and I go about every weekend, so that's where to go to get a dose of culture/social life. Great restaurants, coffee shops, beautiful park, fun bars!!

Yeah, some "backwoods" parts of SC can be pretty awful, but Clemson and most all universities will treat you with equality and respect. I don't go to Clemson but I also go to school "in the middle of nowhere" and the international students are a big part of the social scene (well, the ones that want to be): Europeans, Asians, Africans, everyone. But a word of advice for SC: just be on your guard if you are in sketchy, impoverished places with a mostly white population. Or just avoid them entirely.

I don't have firsthand information but I am also looking into Curatorial Studies and people say CS at Bard is top notch. Everywhere I look that's the one that keeps cropping up at a real prestigious program. But I don't know very much about the social environment outside undergrad (party-heavy rich kids, ugh), although it is close enough to the city to spend your weekends there. Maybe not much help but that's what I got!