ConnColl or Kenyon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CC only 38 pct male, which is low. Kenyon more typical at 45

Yes, but the US Coast guard Academy is very close to Conn College.

Well I guess that means your grandkids will have strong seamanship skills. (Which is actually valuable to be honest)

[Anonymous]

Kenyon if costs are the same, though I know Conn College tends to give merit aid nowadays

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are so similar academically. Kenyon “ranks” higher and has slightly higher test scores, so posters erroneously assume that means better. I think it comes down to student body. Conn College is going to have a “cooler” party crowd, while Kenyon definitely attracts a quirkier, more strait laced student, who has no problem with being in the middle of nowhere Ohio. Also, every person I have worked with who went to Kenyon has had a weird combination of arrogant with a big chip on their shoulder. Granted, that’s just a handful of people, but to a person, they have all been like that. A student in my DD’s senior class in HS who is planning to attend is like that as well. It’s uncanny.

Lol. “Cooler.” CC is respectable but it’s way down the list in terms of small colleges in New England.

Kenyon is clearly top 5 in Midwest with Carleton, Grinnell, Macalester and I guess Oberlin.

Academically, Kenyon lacks in certain areas (notably comp sci which is getting built up) but is otherwise strong across the board including sciences. In English, as well as social sciences and humanities generally, the school is hard to surpass.

[Anonymous]

Conn students just made the president resign because she planned to give a fundraising talk at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach. They claimed she was racist because the club didn’t allow Jews or Blacks to join in the last century (like many clubs/organizations/schools/businesses the Everglades Club has a racist past).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conn students just made the president resign because she planned to give a fundraising talk at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach. They claimed she was racist because the club didn’t allow Jews or Blacks to join in the last century (like many clubs/organizations/schools/businesses the Everglades Club has a racist past).

That is crazy. Punishing people for going to places that are no longer what they once were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Conn students just made the president resign because she planned to give a fundraising talk at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach. They claimed she was racist because the club didn’t allow Jews or Blacks to join in the last century (like many clubs/organizations/schools/businesses the Everglades Club has a racist past).

That is crazy. Punishing people for going to places that are no longer what they once were.

And as usual that is not the entire story. It’s not even close. They’ve been through four different inclusion directors in four years, and she has a long history of being combative with faculty as well as students. The faculty voted 90% against her in a vote of no confidence. She’s a nightmare.

But you go ahead and believe the bullsh you read on anonymous forums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Conn students just made the president resign because she planned to give a fundraising talk at the Everglades Club in Palm Beach. They claimed she was racist because the club didn’t allow Jews or Blacks to join in the last century (like many clubs/organizations/schools/businesses the Everglades Club has a racist past).

That is crazy. Punishing people for going to places that are no longer what they once were.

And as usual that is not the entire story. It’s not even close. They’ve been through four different inclusion directors in four years, and she has a long history of being combative with faculty as well as students. The faculty voted 90% against her in a vote of no confidence. She’s a nightmare.

But you go ahead and believe the bullsh you read on anonymous forums.

Meanwhile at Kenyon the current President is resigning after many years with the endowment much enlarged as he takes the presidency at natural history. The interim President appears very solid, the Kenyon provost. A search for another superstar is underway.

[Anonymous]

Kenyon much more geographically diverse

[Anonymous]

My brother, an English major, absolutely loved Kenyon. A friend’s son just graduated and he’s a great person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are so similar academically. Kenyon “ranks” higher and has slightly higher test scores, so posters erroneously assume that means better. I think it comes down to student body. Conn College is going to have a “cooler” party crowd, while Kenyon definitely attracts a quirkier, more strait laced student, who has no problem with being in the middle of nowhere Ohio. Also, every person I have worked with who went to Kenyon has had a weird combination of arrogant with a big chip on their shoulder. Granted, that’s just a handful of people, but to a person, they have all been like that. A student in my DD’s senior class in HS who is planning to attend is like that as well. It’s uncanny.

This is such a strange post, saying a lot more about PP than what they realize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CC only 38 pct male, which is low. Kenyon more typical at 45

Yes, but the US Coast guard Academy is very close to Conn College.

Well I guess that means your grandkids will have strong seamanship skills. (Which is actually valuable to be honest)

no pun intended

[Anonymous]

Based on everything I’ve learned about Kenyon, which is a lot as DC will be attending in the fall, in terms of the faculty, students, facilities, resources, etc, it seems like DC will be receiving as fine an educational experience as one can obtain anywhere else in the US.

[Anonymous]

For an English major, Kenyon hands down

[Anonymous]

I loved CC. It’s gorgeous, the community was awesome. New London is okay but greater places close by. Loved being on the water. It was excellent. I’ve never been to Kenyon so don’t know anything about it.

[Anonymous]

While the Kenyon booster or boosters is/are enthusiastic, it comes off as a touch desperate/overselling.

Kenyon College (just over 1,600 students) has a beautiful campus and offers solid academics, but it is small and isolated.

Connecticut College is a touch larger (closer to 1,700 students), close to the ocean, offers funded internships, and, arguably, has a better location.

Should come down to personal preference.