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People choose colleges for all sorts of reasons. Lindsay Dennis is coming to Lafayette as a member of the Class of 2007 for the food.
Well, OK, the food and the geography and the geology department.
“It might seem silly to other people, but food is important to me,” says Dennis, who is on a restricted diet because of a medical condition that makes it difficult to digest protein. “I was looking for a lot of vegetarian entrees, lots of good salads and soups.”
Dennis toured 20 other small liberal arts colleges. At each one, she peeked in the cafeteria and came away shaking her head. “The selection of things I can eat was usually pretty meager,” says Dennis. (Think burgers, fries and limp lettuce.)
For Dennis, Lafayette is also on the right coast, which is to say: the proper, civilized East Coast. And that’s also important to her. Dennis lives in Torrance, Calif., near Los Angeles, but has spent every summer of her life in Rehoboth Beach, Del.
“From the beginning, I wanted a school on the East Coast,” she says. “It’s so different than it is in California—the people, the culture and the weather. I love it all.”
And the geology department? Dennis isn’t absolutely, positively sure what her major will be, but she’s considering geology or environmental geoscience. Other schools offer both but a visit to Lafayette was enough to convince Dennis. “I had an absolutely fantastic tour guide,” she said. “It was a rather large tour, but she took the time to talk to everyone to find out what they were looking for.” She took it as a good sign.