WARNING! THEY GIVE EVERYONE THE SAME SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNT! They charge unreasonable amounts of money, then offer a large scholarship to make it look like you're getting a deal but you're not. Every single student Ive spoken to (456) got the same scholarship amount. Very unprofessional was horribly bullied and harassed and the dean April Thompson said "enough complaints about it i know they hurt you physically and emotionally but i dont handle that sort of thing stop bothering me" I was not allowed to have my parents on the call with me when she said that. she said i didn't have the rights to do that. So i was cornered and coerced into silence about what happened. They let rape and bullies run wild. Most backwards school. So i transferred and now im speaking up because this is a glorified private for profit community college. read more

the campus wifi sucks and doesnt work, no matter who we contact it hasnt been fixed and i cant do anything on it on my laptop let alone anything school related because it doesnt want to work read more

Sometimes it's hard to return to this fair bastion of learning on the hill. I see the ghosts of my freshman year (Drunk Chris, Missionary Jen) walking across campus, doing their drunken, missionary things. I also see the real, full-blooded freshmen walking across campus. They are as green to me as "Brooks Beach." They have inherited this campus, haunted by the ghosts of my innocence - the place where I fell in love with fries in chicken salads, evangelical Christianity, and my husband. Allegheny College was once described to me as fairly conservative, but accepting of diverse opinions and lifestyles as long as they weren't overtly obnoxious. This rung true for me. The College is pastoral and bucolic, but it is a place where new ideas can give birth to exciting initiatives and where frat boys can wield as much power as the hempiest hippie on your hall. You can tour the campus as many times as you like, but a tour will not tell you about the meaningful, life-long relationships you will forge with your roommate, your professor, the woman who swipes your meal card in the dining hall. If I did it all over again, I'm not sure I would choose Allegheny College. I'm more of a city person and I ended up self-designing my major because print journalism was not an offering. But I will always be grateful for this experience and will forever be haunted by the people that make the College so special, and also by the person that I was before matriculating...who was changed irreverisbly in an impossibly short four years read more

Previously known as the Fiji House (Phi Gamma Delta). For 3 years while I was at Allegheny, the current Admissions Office was like a ghost house on the hill. The fraternity had been defunct at Allegheny for approximately 20 years, I believe. The college has upscaled the building, as well as the rest of the campus, apparently. Alumni Weekend will sure be "interesting." read more

The is a great college. Rigorous academics coupled with intimate class sizes and frequent discussion-based learning, creative problem-solving and developing analytical/critical thinking skills ensure the students rise to the level being challenged. Research opportunities are available in any field the student is interested in (starting freshman year!) with the full focus on developing the students to their highest potential. Most of the professors have PhD's (experts in their fields) and quite a few are from notable schools like Oxford, Harvard, Yale, UChicago, and the like. so the students get the benefits of those educations as well. The Senior Project is a year-long research project required for all majors that prepares them well for post-college life in career or graduate school, and Allegheny is one of only a handful of schools that does this in the country. The Freshman and Sophomore Seminars ensure that the learning (in whatever field they choose) contains all the skills necessary for a great education. The schools' philosophy of "unusual combinations" ensures a well-rounded person emerging at graduation (you major in one field, say science, and minor in an opposite field, say humanities). Our son is a sophomore and all the students we've met are friendly, socially outgoing (but not in an obnoxious way!), accepting, very dynamic and ambitious with great ideas. The atmosphere is inclusive not competitive, with down-to-earth really nice kids. Our son was accepted to five schools, and of all of them, the student body here was his favorite. The school sits on a hill, with a surrounding town that is in post-industrial depression, and the school and numerous campus clubs and groups promote volunteerism in town at every opportunity. Allegheny has a "laid back" campus and doesn't really self-promote (being 200 years old it has a rich history -U.S. President William McKinley, Civil Rights Lawyer Clarence Darrow, Writer Ida Tarbell (who brought down Standard Oil Company's monopoly), Musician Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) but it is definitely not filled with slackers. Just a really nice and smart student body living on a beautiful campus, in a truly great gem of a school. read more