Category: Survey

Survey Results #24: Time For A Brewed Awakening!

According to our survey results, you’re more likely to hear someone ask for a Brewed Awakening once you get to campus than you are to hear someone ask for a Starbucks run. We asked our incoming students which they preferred out of the following three options: Starbucks, local coffee shops or Pepsi.

(The Pepsi was included to accommodate non-coffee drinkers, although one person later commented that she prefers milk. She’ll love Wisconsin!)

In this case, about 15% of you said Pepsi, 20% said Starbucks, and a whopping 65% said local coffee shops.

(For the record, 65% is how many of our classes have just one student…in case you missed that in any of our brochures talking about individualized learning.)

Fortunately, you’ll all find a happy medium in Appleton, Wisconsin. Just a couple blocks from campus, you’ll find local favorites like Harmony Café, Brewed Awakenings and Copper Rock, as well as a Starbucks, and several enterprises that serve non-coffee options.

In fact, you can find out about everything else we have in downtown Appleton by going to this city-sponsored site. or check out a blog by Jeff Lindsay, a local resident who seems to know and love more about Appleton than anyone.

He also collects information about the city of Appleton on another website.

Now that it’s under a month until you arrive on campus, we’re getting really excited. Whether it’s at Starbucks, Harmony, Brewed Awakenings, the Brat Cart or a soda-selling restaurant, we look forward to seeing you on and off campus!

Survey #23: Movie Favorites

You can tell a lot about people when you find out about their favorite movies. Do they have a Tommy Boy sense of humor or a Monty Python and the Holy Grail sense of humor? Do they prefer the tearjerker Steel Magnolias or the action-packed flick The Dark Knight (and did they laugh during Steel Magnolias?).

The top three movies from our survey of your class are as follows: Pride and Prejudice, The Princess Bride (a classic), and Pirates of the Caribbean.

There were a few other movies that weren’t too far behind, these were: Slumdog Millionaire, anything Harry Potter, Casablanca, and Star Wars.

Some of you found this question too difficult. One person said, “Of all time? There are too many.”

Hopefully you’ll all get a few more movies watched before the summer is over–soon there will be lots of Lawrence activities to keep you occupied and books to be studied.

Survey Results #22: Unique Traits

Dear Lawrence University Class of 2013,

We at the office of admissions have been pleasantly delighted and surprised by your responses to our fun survey. Thank you for your candid answers and honest reflection to the question,

“What is the most unique thing about you?”

While everyone is unique in their own way (it’s true), here are some responses worth highlighting:

– An alter-ego named Siouxsie Queball

– A minuscule sneeze

– Undetectable sarcasm

– Gut-rattling burps

– Implanted RFID microchip for the fun

– Playing piano with body facing opposite direction and hands wrapped about body

– Heightened sense of time

– Wearing socks that never, ever match

Whatever your idiosyncrasies be, Lawrence University is the perfect environment to cultivate such individualized interest.

Survey Results #21: International Wanderers

A couple weeks ago, in a blog titled ‘National Wanderers’, we talked about the geographic diversity of Lawrence University’s student population. That theme continues, with some more information about our international diversity.

When you arrive at Lawrence, you’ll be at one of the most internationally diverse campuses in the country. About 13% of our students are international students, coming from all over the world. In fact, you might even find yourself hanging out at the International House.

In addition, the Diversity Center will always be working on campus to present educational programming designed to help us better understand diversity in a rapidly changing world.

Recognizing that so many of our students are international, we asked you to tell us what country you were most excited to meet someone from. A good number of you let us know that you were excited to meet someone from any country, which, of course, is a good thing. Some of you were more general, citing regions or continents (such as Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and South America…in that order.) But for those of you who listed a specific country, you came up with a list of 48 different countries.

Here are the top five:

1 – France

2 – Australia

3 – Italy and Japan (tied)

4 – Germany

5 – China

Some of the other countries that garnered a lot of interest were: South Africa, Russia, Poland, England, Greece, Brazil, Ghana, India, Korea and Ireland.

A few weeks ago, we suggested you stop by to check out the map of the United States, with a pin indicating the hometown of each student. Today, we’d encourage you to do the same thing, but instead to look on a different wall in Wilson House. There, you’ll find a map of the entire world, with a pin representing each international student, as well as each study abroad program.

By the end of your time at Lawrence, you’ll have had the opportunity to interact, live and work with students from all over the country…and all over the world.

Alphabet Soup: Survey Results # 20

When we asked what your favorite letter was I’m not sure we knew quite what we were thinking (or if the song from the alphabet soup commercial somehow got stuck in our heads around that time) but it was fantastic learning what you thought!

Your collective favorite letter is?

S!

With A a close second.

Just for grins we thought we’d determine what your least favorite letter was.

Survey says…

P!

With no other letter near by.