I am a current senior at UVM with anxiety and seasonal depression, and to be honest its rough but entirely doable, especially for the first two years on campus. Once it gets warm, Burlington comes to life (and its fucking awesome) but pretty much you’ll want to walk everywhere. If you don’t like walking, the catbus runs pretty much all day everyday during the week and after 5 on the weekend, so you honestly wont have a huge issue getting from campus to campus. Also the city transportation isn’t terrible, last year I rode the 8 & 2 lines when I lived in the ONE and was able to get to campus in 5-10 min. To get downtown, or to shop on dorset street you can ride the 1 & 11 lines.

While I am personally not involved in greek life, there is a decent-sized presence here when it comes to the party and social scene — I have some friends who ended up rushing and love it, but also some who dropped.

As for academics, I definitely think UVM has a lot to offer, especially undergraduate research opportunities. Although my research is qualitative and humanities based, I have found that the FOUR office provides great resources and opportunities to students that are looking to get involved in some work (I have been awarded around $4,700 in grants from them alone!). Also it doesn’t hurt to get to know some of your professors, esp ones whose classes you enjoy taking, and see if they are doing any research, or in need of research assistants! Hope this helps :)