Like Denison but easier to get in…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DoesnDenison have a similar vibe to Elon? Seems like maybe.

Fiske Guide does have Elon as an overlap. (Other overlap schools listed are as selective or more so.)

Schools where Denison is listed as an overlap school include:

Allegheny College
College of Wooster
Depauw University
Lawrence University
Ohio Wesleyan University
St. Lawrence University

[Anonymous]

Washington College in Chestertown.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t Denison second tier?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Denison second tier?

Yes, but 2nd tier is a reach for some kids. Gasp!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DoesnDenison have a similar vibe to Elon? Seems like maybe.

Fiske Guide does have Elon as an overlap. (Other overlap schools listed are as selective or more so.)

Schools where Denison is listed as an overlap school include:

Allegheny College
College of Wooster
Depauw University
Lawrence University
Ohio Wesleyan University
St. Lawrence University

Depauw is the only school on this list that is remotely like Dennison in terms of culture and vibe. Allegheny is in a shopworn little rust belt town and has a much more regional student body. Wooster and Lawrence are quirkier, more intellectual and less pre-professional. The same for OWU, only its stats are significantly lower. St. Lawrence has the preppy/sporty vibe going for it, but it's in the absolute middle of nowhere on the Canadian border.

Aside from Depauw, the schools you should be looking at if you want Dennison but easier to get into are Rhodes, Forman, Wofford, and the aforementioned Gettysburg and Rollins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Denison second tier?

And?

[Anonymous]

Gettysburg and Depauw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DoesnDenison have a similar vibe to Elon? Seems like maybe.

Fiske Guide does have Elon as an overlap. (Other overlap schools listed are as selective or more so.)

Schools where Denison is listed as an overlap school include:

Allegheny College
College of Wooster
Depauw University
Lawrence University
Ohio Wesleyan University
St. Lawrence University

Depauw is the only school on this list that is remotely like Dennison in terms of culture and vibe. Allegheny is in a shopworn little rust belt town and has a much more regional student body. Wooster and Lawrence are quirkier, more intellectual and less pre-professional. The same for OWU, only its stats are significantly lower. St. Lawrence has the preppy/sporty vibe going for it, but it's in the absolute middle of nowhere on the Canadian border.

Aside from Depauw, the schools you should be looking at if you want Dennison but easier to get into are Rhodes, Forman, Wofford, and the aforementioned Gettysburg and Rollins.

This is super helpful. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DoesnDenison have a similar vibe to Elon? Seems like maybe.

Fiske Guide does have Elon as an overlap. (Other overlap schools listed are as selective or more so.)

Schools where Denison is listed as an overlap school include:

Allegheny College
College of Wooster
Depauw University
Lawrence University
Ohio Wesleyan University
St. Lawrence University

This is a pretty good list of peer schools for Denison, other than Lawrence and Saint Lawrence are fairly distant from Denison and not really peers in the way that the others are.

I agree but think St. Lawrence is closer to the Denison vibe than Lawrence is.
Syracuse if you want to go bigger.

[Anonymous]

Depauw is the only school on this list that is remotely like Dennison in terms of culture and vibe. Allegheny is in a shopworn little rust belt town and has a much more regional student body. Wooster and Lawrence are quirkier, more intellectual and less pre-professional. The same for OWU, only its stats are significantly lower. St. Lawrence has the preppy/sporty vibe going for it, but it's in the absolute middle of nowhere on the Canadian border.

Aside from Depauw, the schools you should be looking at if you want Dennison but easier to get into are Rhodes, Forman, Wofford, and the aforementioned Gettysburg and Rollins.

I agree with the poster above. Besides the Midwest location, many of the schools previously listed are quite different than Denison. I haven't been to all the schools that the previous poster listed, but schools that we visited that seemed similar to Denison, but easier to get into include:

Dickinson - https://www.dickinson.edu/

Elon - https://www.elon.edu/

Fairfield - https://www.fairfield.edu/

Gettysburg - https://www.gettysburg.edu/

Rollins - https://www.rollins.edu/

On a related note, here's an interesting article discussing Denison, Villanova, and the University of Miami (FL) becoming more selective schools. https://ctas.substack.com/p/the-2023-admissions-cycle-part-1

[Anonymous]

I went to a top 3 law school (the one with the palm trees . You'd be surprised how many of my classmates went to small private colleges -- not NESCAC schools or their peers -- but little places you've never even heard of. It's not where you start, it's how you finish.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to a top 3 law school (the one with the palm trees . You'd be surprised how many of my classmates went to small private colleges -- not NESCAC schools or their peers -- but little places you

Please share some school names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a top 3 law school (the one with the palm trees . You'd be surprised how many of my classmates went to small private colleges -- not NESCAC schools or their peers -- but little places you've never even heard of. It's not where you start, it's how you finish.

Yes, undergrad is just the beginning of a journey.

[Anonymous]

Wittenberg University?

[Anonymous]

OWU. Roanoke. Kalamazoo. McDaniel. Elon.

I don’t think Gettysburg or Dickinson are easier to get into than Denison.

St Olaf, but I don’t think that’s easy to get into. Rhodes felt similar, but it’s more religious, and I think harder to get into.