My favorite thing about Bryn Mawr is the sense of community. It has come to feel like my home and a place where I belong. The largest contributing factor to this sense of community is our Traditions. Every Bryn Mawr woman receives her own lantern which is presented to freshmen in a special ceremony at the beginning of the year.

I am most involved in my school’s Jewish Student Union (JSU), which is jointly sponsored by Bryn Mawr and Haverford. JSU has Shabbat services every Friday night and a weekly text study. We also have community service and social events. Next year will be my second year on JSU’s board as a Tikkun Olam coordinator. I also write movie and play reviews for the Bi-College (Bryn Mawr and Haverford) newspaper.

Bryn Mawr has offered me the chance to take classes in subjects in which I am curious, to have interesting internships, and to be involved in a variety of diverse and interesting campus groups.

I picked Bryn Mawr because of the sense of community. I could feel this community almost from the minute I stepped onto campus. Coming from such as small school as Milken, this sense of community was very important to making the transition to college easier for me, and I could tell that Bryn Mawr was a place where I could feel at home. Luckily, Bryn Mawr has lived up to the expectations that I had when I chose the school, as the sense of community is something that I feel strongly every day. I also chose Bryn Mawr because I knew that it was the sort of school where each student was treated as an individual, where the professors know your name, and where each student is given a great deal of attention in order to ensure her success.