Kenyon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nowadays most students would prefer a T30 over a liberal arts college. And a T15 over a T10 lac.

Kenyon College's concerted, and admirable, effort to increase to 2,000 students which actually resulted in a net loss of 110 students is evidence of this trend.

Rightsizing is the wisest move for small, isolated Kenyon College at this time.

In the future, Kenyon College should consider an alliance which would make Kenyon College a 2 year feeder school to an elite university like Emory at Oxford (Oxford, Georgia) is to Emory University. Any thoughts as to which university would be a good match with Kenyon College ? Maybe U Chicago ?

Nope. Let Kenyon be Kenyon, because it sure as hell wouldn't want to be Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nowadays most students would prefer a T30 over a liberal arts college. And a T15 over a T10 lac.

Kenyon College's concerted, and admirable, effort to increase to 2,000 students which actually resulted in a net loss of 110 students is evidence of this trend.

Rightsizing is the wisest move for small, isolated Kenyon College at this time.

In the future, Kenyon College should consider an alliance which would make Kenyon College a 2 year feeder school to an elite university like Emory at Oxford (Oxford, Georgia) is to Emory University. Any thoughts as to which university would be a good match with Kenyon College ? Maybe U Chicago ?

Nope. Let Kenyon be Kenyon, because it sure as hell wouldn't want to be Chicago.

I think that you miss the point of this thread.

Kenyon being Kenyon isn't working so change is needed.

[Anonymous]

Maybe Kenyon College should form a strong alliance and exchange program with Grinnell College. This would enable students at both schools to study and to better understand the growth cycles of corn in Ohio versus he growth cycles of corn in Iowa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Kenyon College should form a strong alliance and exchange program with Grinnell College. This would enable students at both schools to study and to better understand the growth cycles of corn in Ohio versus he growth cycles of corn in Iowa.

And maybe you’re a know nothing a$$hole

[Anonymous]

I’ve hired Kenyon grads and they’re excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hard times ahead. I could never understand DCUM’s love for this school—it’s just not that great.

https://kenyoncollegian.com/news/2025/11/kenyon-personnel-to-be-reduced-as-student-body-decreases/

Speak for yourself. We’ve visited several LACs and our top choice would be Kenyon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nowadays most students would prefer a T30 over a liberal arts college. And a T15 over a T10 lac.

OK, NOVA mom. Just say you hate SLACs and keep it moving.

This is, unfortunately, the current trend among high school seniors, but I think it’s just a trend and expect LACs to eventually bounce back. I, for one, can’t imagine form to a large research institution…

[Anonymous]

I’m from Ohio. I always admired the grads/outcomes from places like Oberlin, Kenyon, Wooster, Denison, etc., even though I chose a LAC in different state to experience another part of the country. I hope those schools don’t fall on hard times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised that they still don't have a Computer Science major.

This is why my son didn't apply. He did apply to Oberlin which has had a BA in CS and is introducing a BS in CS next year.

[Anonymous]

Visited both Denison and Kenyon during a college swing. DC preferred the location of Denison by far and away. I thought both were great but driving to Kenyon and then to Denison I understand. Kenyon is truly rural and that’s not what DC was looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised that they still don't have a Computer Science major.

Not a good major anymore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visited both Denison and Kenyon during a college swing. DC preferred the location of Denison by far and away. I thought both were great but driving to Kenyon and then to Denison I understand. Kenyon is truly rural and that’s not what DC was looking for.

It is in the mi

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a chart in Dream School that showed Kenyon had the biggest dropoff in full pay students of any college in the US over the last decade. That's a problem.

Only 17% don’t get scholarship or grant aid at Kenyon nowadays according to College Navigator. I think it’s similar to a lot of schools near it in rankings. Oberlin and Denison give scholarship or grant aid to 99% & 95% of students. Kenyon doesn’t have their level of endowments and has to compete. I wouldn’t spend 80k for Kenyon when my kid could go to Oberlin or Denison for 50-60k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nowadays most students would prefer a T30 over a liberal arts college. And a T15 over a T10 lac.

okay? most students get into none of them.

[Anonymous]

I don't believe Kenyon. It doesn't need to cost $90k/year. They choose for it to be overpriced, because they want sucker parents to buy into the hype of a decently prestigious school. Cut cost of tuition.