Tell us about Kenyon...

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Apart from Pomona, and arguably Occidental, are there any other SLACs of note in CA?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the obsession with Kenyon? It barely cracks the top 30 among liberal arts colleges. It's a back of school for preppies who can't get into an elite LAC.

This comment says more about you than you may realize.

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Anonymous wrote:Was at Kenyon for the championship soccer game versus Denison this weekend. The campus and landscape is as stunning as they say. The athletic facilities are the best I’ve seen for a liberal arts school. The student body as represented at the game seemed very much like that at Denison. Preppy kids, not very diverse. Town of Gambier is teeny and has a Hollywood set type of vibe. Granville has them beat. Along those lines I found it annoying that there were no hotel/motels in Gambier and a college town without a pizza joint is inexplicable.

Minor gripes aside, I was favorably impressed by the sights and sounds of the place. Despite all this - Go Big Red and congrats on the big win!

I think there’s some selection bias at play here with regards to the students attending the game. Those are probably the preppy kids on campus. I was just there for family weekend and you’ll see much more of a cross section of kids throughout the rest of campus. But like many liberal arts schools diversity is still an issue and they are working on this. Congrats on the win!

Yes, I agree, Kenyon is more diverse than some might think. In addition to the preppy jocks, there's the preppy artistic kids, the preppy geeks, the preppy hippies/hipsters, the preppy all-around-nice-kids, the preppy activists, the preppy... you get it

It's a very nice school populated with very nice kids from very nice families.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the obsession with Kenyon? It barely cracks the top 30 among liberal arts colleges. It's a back of school for preppies who can't get into an elite LAC.

This comment says more about you than you may realize.

Yea, it says I'm smart enough not to pay the same amount of money for number 30 instead of number 1, 5, or 10.

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Trust us, it doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the obsession with Kenyon? It barely cracks the top 30 among liberal arts colleges. It's a back of school for preppies who can't get into an elite LAC.

This comment says more about you than you may realize.

Yea, it says I'm smart enough not to pay the same amount of money for number 30 instead of number 1, 5, or 10.

There's little discernable difference between #30 and #s 1, 5, and 10.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the obsession with Kenyon? It barely cracks the top 30 among liberal arts colleges. It's a back of school for preppies who can't get into an elite LAC.

This comment says more about you than you may realize.

Yea, it says I'm smart enough not to pay the same amount of money for number 30 instead of number 1, 5, or 10.

There's little discernable difference between #30 and #s 1, 5, and 10.

There is one discernable difference. For SLACs, the higher the ranking, the more Woke the school.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the obsession with Kenyon? It barely cracks the top 30 among liberal arts colleges. It's a back of school for preppies who can't get into an elite LAC.

This comment says more about you than you may realize.

Yea, it says I'm smart enough not to pay the same amount of money for number 30 instead of number 1, 5, or 10.

There's little discernable difference between #30 and #s 1, 5, and 10.

There is one discernable difference. For SLACs, the higher the ranking, the more Woke the school.

Umm, no.

[Anonymous]

Oberlin is what pops up when you Google Woke and SLAC. It is falling in the rankings at the speed of light.

[Anonymous]

I think this thread has more replies than Kenyon actually has students.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this thread has more replies than Kenyon actually has students.

Most SLACS are actually as small as your DH's private part. You are a perpetual Kenyon hate/downer poster. how did the place traumatize you so?

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Anonymous wrote:I think this thread has more replies than Kenyon actually has students.

Most SLACS are actually as small as your DH's private part. You are a perpetual Kenyon hate/downer poster. how did the place traumatize you so?

That’s rich, because it was my first post on this thread 😂. After seeing this continue to be bumped to the top, I finally opened it to read how there could be 19 pages of commentary on the college …

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges

Take a look at USNW's liberal arts rankings. I guarantee you that apart from the old women's colleges (Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Barnard, Bryn Mawr) and the military academies (which should not be categorized as a liberal arts school in the first place) the overwhelming majority of people in America have never heard of these "top" schools.

Who cares what the majority of the country has heard of?

Aww. Come on now. It still hurts, don't it, when your next door neighbor says Haverford, Grinnel [fill in the SLAC blank]...oh yeah...that's in Boston...right...oh sorry, ain't never heard of it.

So...I went to one of these liberal arts colleges that nobody ever heard of (over Princeton and Duke, I might add)...was it vaguely annoying that (many) people hadn't heard of it? Sometimes. Have I (30 years later) ever regretted going to this school over one of these better known schools? Not once.

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Anonymous wrote:Apart from Pomona, and arguably Occidental, are there any other SLACs of note in CA?

There are four SLACs other than Pomona that make up the Claremont schools (Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd--but the last one is pretty STEM focused I think).

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Anonymous wrote:I think this thread has more replies than Kenyon actually has students.

NP here -- I'm a Kenyon parent and I really hope you're not another one -- or an alum -- though I guess that would contradict the "very nice kids from very nice families" post (which is actually spot on and one of the best things about the school-- it's a friendly place, but maybe that's not everyone's cuppa.)