What is Kenyon College like -- looking for actual and recent experiences...

[Anonymous]

I thought Dennison was the good SLAC in Ohio now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought Dennison was the good SLAC in Ohio now.

It's a fine school but Denison ACT range is 29-32 versus Kenyon at 31-34 with comparable percentages submitting scores. That is material. Williams for perspective is 34-35.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is not at Kenyon, but I have spent time on campus and my kid is a D3 athlete. Kenyon is a beautiful campus with spectacular athletic facilities. Good luck to your child and you MIL should keep her mouth shut.

Agree. SLAC are nothing like a public high school! Really stupid thing to “wonder”.

Many SLACs are similar--very similar--to prep boarding schools and may resemble to a lesser extent good private day schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is not at Kenyon, but I have spent time on campus and my kid is a D3 athlete. Kenyon is a beautiful campus with spectacular athletic facilities. Good luck to your child and you MIL should keep her mouth shut.

Agree. SLAC are nothing like a public high school! Really stupid thing to “wonder”.

Many SLACs are similar--very similar--to prep boarding schools and may resemble to a lesser extent good private day schools.

What do you mean by a "good private day school"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD was recruited to play field hockey and is going ED, so fingers crossed, we are assuming we'll hear that she's an Owl very soon. We of course know about the gorgeous campus and excellent academics (DD is interested in being an English major). Though over Thanksgiving my MIL, bless her heart, wondered whether the student body of less than 2000 feels like an extension of high school, and where jocks and NARPS really just co-exist rather than being one of a whole. Obviously my DD is a jock, but has what I'd refer to as NARP proclivities -- choir, orchestra, and even DnD. Will she be single-tracked at a place like Kenyon? Would love to hear from any current or recent families/students.

A friend of mine taught at Kenyon a while back and loved being there. It sounds like an ideal fit for your daughter -- outstanding athletic facilities for your athlete and a great school to be an English major (writing classes are outstanding). And, of course, it is beautiful. I hope your DD will be very happy there. I am following this thread as one of my kids (an athlete and a writer) is considering applying to Kenyon in a couple of years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is not at Kenyon, but I have spent time on campus and my kid is a D3 athlete. Kenyon is a beautiful campus with spectacular athletic facilities. Good luck to your child and you MIL should keep her mouth shut.

Agree. SLAC are nothing like a public high school! Really stupid thing to “wonder”.

Many SLACs are similar--very similar--to prep boarding schools and may resemble to a lesser extent good private day schools.

What do you mean by a "good private day school"?

Probably PP meant "not a Catholic school"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

so four cliques? jock, rich, woke, and remainder?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

so four cliques? jock, rich, woke, and remainder?

I think it’s basically two. Athletes are often from well to do backgrounds so there is a natural overlap with jock and rich. (Some would argue the point of athletics is to attract full pay rich kids.) This woke nonsense has exacerbated the natural divergence between goal oriented athletes and creative/intellectual/dissolute NARPs. Now the NARPs can’t even be reasoned with. My DS at Kenyon is really far from a traditional jock although he plays a sport. But he does find a lot of these NARPs are truly abnormal people- shockingly so. His estimate is about half of them are really off the deep end. I’m happy his social life is centered around the sports/Greek kids (who overlap heavily). This generation may just be a little stranger than previous ones. Raised on iPhones, Covid, the rise of transgenderism/BLM, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

so four cliques? jock, rich, woke, and remainder?

I think it’s basically two. Athletes are often from well to do backgrounds so there is a natural overlap with jock and rich. (Some would argue the point of athletics is to attract full pay rich kids.) This woke nonsense has exacerbated the natural divergence between goal oriented athletes and creative/intellectual/dissolute NARPs. Now the NARPs can’t even be reasoned with. My DS at Kenyon is really far from a traditional jock although he plays a sport. But he does find a lot of these NARPs are truly abnormal people- shockingly so. His estimate is about half of them are really off the deep end. I’m happy his social life is centered around the sports/Greek kids (who overlap heavily). This generation may just be a little stranger than previous ones. Raised on iPhones, Covid, the rise of transgenderism/BLM, etc.

I don't even know what this means.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

so four cliques? jock, rich, woke, and remainder?

I think it’s basically two. Athletes are often from well to do backgrounds so there is a natural overlap with jock and rich. (Some would argue the point of athletics is to attract full pay rich kids.) This woke nonsense has exacerbated the natural divergence between goal oriented athletes and creative/intellectual/dissolute NARPs. Now the NARPs can’t even be reasoned with. My DS at Kenyon is really far from a traditional jock although he plays a sport. But he does find a lot of these NARPs are truly abnormal people- shockingly so. His estimate is about half of them are really off the deep end. I’m happy his social life is centered around the sports/Greek kids (who overlap heavily). This generation may just be a little stranger than previous ones. Raised on iPhones, Covid, the rise of transgenderism/BLM, etc.

I don't even know what this means.

Imagine two boys. One has purple hair, is committed to social justice, enjoys drugs, writes poetry, plays the flute, and considers himself non-binary. Another one plays lacrosse, has a closet full of vineyard vines, enjoys beer and aspires to run a hedge fund. What I’m suggesting is a social paradigm that can be semi-accurately described as a tension between these two extreme poles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

so four cliques? jock, rich, woke, and remainder?

I think it’s basically two. Athletes are often from well to do backgrounds so there is a natural overlap with jock and rich. (Some would argue the point of athletics is to attract full pay rich kids.) This woke nonsense has exacerbated the natural divergence between goal oriented athletes and creative/intellectual/dissolute NARPs. Now the NARPs can’t even be reasoned with. My DS at Kenyon is really far from a traditional jock although he plays a sport. But he does find a lot of these NARPs are truly abnormal people- shockingly so. His estimate is about half of them are really off the deep end. I’m happy his social life is centered around the sports/Greek kids (who overlap heavily). This generation may just be a little stranger than previous ones. Raised on iPhones, Covid, the rise of transgenderism/BLM, etc.

I don't even know what this means.

Imagine two boys. One has purple hair, is committed to social justice, enjoys drugs, writes poetry, plays the flute, and considers himself non-binary. Another one plays lacrosse, has a closet full of vineyard vines, enjoys beer and aspires to run a hedge fund. What I’m suggesting is a social paradigm that can be semi-accurately described as a tension between these two extreme poles.

What gives you these ridiculous whacked out visions? Just alcohol, or have you been hitting up the new pot shops in Tenleytown? Seems like a little paranoia is setting in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My impression is that the SLACs are where the athletes and the NARPs can frolic freely together.

Not necessarily. Friend of mine had a son at Williams who said the athlete / rich kid / woke kid / "everyone else" cliques didn't mix much.

so four cliques? jock, rich, woke, and remainder?

I think it’s basically two. Athletes are often from well to do backgrounds so there is a natural overlap with jock and rich. (Some would argue the point of athletics is to attract full pay rich kids.) This woke nonsense has exacerbated the natural divergence between goal oriented athletes and creative/intellectual/dissolute NARPs. Now the NARPs can’t even be reasoned with. My DS at Kenyon is really far from a traditional jock although he plays a sport. But he does find a lot of these NARPs are truly abnormal people- shockingly so. His estimate is about half of them are really off the deep end. I’m happy his social life is centered around the sports/Greek kids (who overlap heavily). This generation may just be a little stranger than previous ones. Raised on iPhones, Covid, the rise of transgenderism/BLM, etc.

I don't even know what this means.

Imagine two boys. One has purple hair, is committed to social justice, enjoys drugs, writes poetry, plays the flute, and considers himself non-binary. Another one plays lacrosse, has a closet full of vineyard vines, enjoys beer and aspires to run a hedge fund. What I’m suggesting is a social paradigm that can be semi-accurately described as a tension between these two extreme poles.

I hopped over here to cleanse the palate after the “10 best colleges for dating” thread made me feel like I was 150 years old. After reading this post, I think I’m going back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is not at Kenyon, but I have spent time on campus and my kid is a D3 athlete. Kenyon is a beautiful campus with spectacular athletic facilities. Good luck to your child and you MIL should keep her mouth shut.

Agree. SLAC are nothing like a public high school! Really stupid thing to “wonder”.

Many SLACs are similar--very similar--to prep boarding schools and may resemble to a lesser extent good private day schools.

If you go to a big school, you will not know 2000 people when you graduate. They are smaller schools, but most people run in much smaller circles, so not as if it’s limiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is not at Kenyon, but I have spent time on campus and my kid is a D3 athlete. Kenyon is a beautiful campus with spectacular athletic facilities. Good luck to your child and you MIL should keep her mouth shut.

Agree. SLAC are nothing like a public high school! Really stupid thing to “wonder”.

Many SLACs are similar--very similar--to prep boarding schools and may resemble to a lesser extent good private day schools.

If you go to a big school, you will not know 2000 people when you graduate. They are smaller schools, but most people run in much smaller circles, so not as if it’s limiting.

It's a good point. I went to a school of 4500. I was aware of the names of maybe half my classmates (not just the school but my graduating class) by the time I left. Had actual conversations with a quarter of them maybe?