What type of kid attends Sewanee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

LOL. This is the definition of isolated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

LOL. This is the definition of isolated.

You’re such a dork. Go away.

[Anonymous]

My DC was attracted to Sewanee b/c of the writing program associated with the Sewanee Review, which has a storied history. They have a summer writing workshop for high school kids, which sold DC on the place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

LOL. This is the definition of isolated.

You’re such a dork. Go away.

Dp but why are you so defensive about basic facts? Sewanee is a solid school with a unique campus. That campus is isolated. That is not necessarily a flaw to many applicants. But it is nonetheless a fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a great little school, genuinely nurturing, and a place that truly values learning. Definitely not for everyone. For kids who don't mind a rural setting it's kind of like boarding school but with beer.... and i mean that in a good way... it is sort of magical. people say it looks like Hogwarts and there is something too that. it's small, it's intense, it's close knit... has a famous literary traditon... most faculty live on campus and students are constantly seeing profs, being invited to their homes for dinner, going on hikes with them, etc. for some kids it is absolute heaven: intellectual but fun, at school with your 1800 best friends in a magical place on top of a mountain. for other kids it's just too small, too cute, too cosy, too intense.

it is definitely gaining more name recognition outside the south and probably poised to climb rapidly in USNEWS etc, which may not be such a good thing... right now i think kids very much self-select to go there, and if it rises much higher in the rankings it will start to get more kids who go just because of the ranking, not because they "get" the place.

DS seriously considered it and we made several visits. This is the best description I've seen to date. I'd also add that for an outdoorsy type it could be heaven as you can hike and backpack right our your dorm door. Merit aid was also very generous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

LOL. This is the definition of isolated.

You’re such a dork. Go away.

Dp but why are you so defensive about basic facts? Sewanee is a solid school with a unique campus. That campus is isolated. That is not necessarily a flaw to many applicants. But it is nonetheless a fact.

Agree. Why so defensive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a great little school, genuinely nurturing, and a place that truly values learning. Definitely not for everyone. For kids who don't mind a rural setting it's kind of like boarding school but with beer.... and i mean that in a good way... it is sort of magical. people say it looks like Hogwarts and there is something too that. it's small, it's intense, it's close knit... has a famous literary traditon... most faculty live on campus and students are constantly seeing profs, being invited to their homes for dinner, going on hikes with them, etc. for some kids it is absolute heaven: intellectual but fun, at school with your 1800 best friends in a magical place on top of a mountain. for other kids it's just too small, too cute, too cosy, too intense.

it is definitely gaining more name recognition outside the south and probably poised to climb rapidly in USNEWS etc, which may not be such a good thing... right now i think kids very much self-select to go there, and if it rises much higher in the rankings it will start to get more kids who go just because of the ranking, not because they "get" the place.

DS seriously considered it and we made several visits. This is the best description I've seen to date. I'd also add that for an outdoorsy type it could be heaven as you can hike and backpack right our your dorm door. Merit aid was also very generous.

PP, twice you used the term "magical" to describe a college campus/ experience. Please understand that on DCUM, that term is reserved to describe preschools, and Beauvoir.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

LOL. This is the definition of isolated.

You’re such a dork. Go away.

Dp but why are you so defensive about basic facts? Sewanee is a solid school with a unique campus. That campus is isolated. That is not necessarily a flaw to many applicants. But it is nonetheless a fact.

Agree. Why so defensive?

DP +3. It’s a poor look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:white

Not true. My neighbor’s kid (black) goes there.

[Anonymous]

Then your neighbors kid is part of the 4% AAs on campus. It is about 81% white. So the prior statement was fairly accurate.

[Anonymous]

It's not "shooting up in the rankings." It's been a solid second tier school forever and will stay that way. I anything, half a century ago it was more highly regarded than it is now.

[Anonymous]

PP here I mean IF anything . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

LOL. This is the definition of isolated.

You’re such a dork. Go away.

Dp but why are you so defensive about basic facts? Sewanee is a solid school with a unique campus. That campus is isolated. That is not necessarily a flaw to many applicants. But it is nonetheless a fact.

Agree. Why so defensive?

Not the PP but the reaction was to ‘isolated AF’, an extreme position. I’d argue that there are many, many LACs that aren’t within an hour of a large metro area, as so by the standard of LACs it’s not particularly isolated.

[Anonymous]

Rich and white.

It will not be easy there for a POC. BUT things are changing and the direction is a good one.

The campus is far removed from any city or town. I am not sure how one would get by without a car.

It's great for people who like the outdoors with miles of hiking trails.

Everyone knows each other's business. It's small.

[Anonymous]

I agree, it is isolated. This is not a bad thing for some kids but would be horrible for others.

It is also still much less diverse than comparable northeastern schools. They do seem to be making a major effort to change that, but yeah. It's still pretty white.

I think it clearly is rising in terms of national reputation. Look at the changing percentage of kids from outside the south, for instance. (I don't have a link but I think if you google you can find stats). Two decades again it was almost entirely a southern school. It now has a much higher (and growing) percentage of kids from the northeast, CA, etc.

Back in the day, when I was applying for college (late 80s), Middlebury was seen as a second tier school - almost exactly like Sewanee now. That it: it was viewed as a safety school for rich white preppies who didn't get into HYP or Amherst or Williams. But today, Middlebury is ranked 7th. The same is true for places like Bowdoin and Colby- and Carleton and W&L were not even on the radar for most smart kids in the northeast. But each of those schools has bootstrapped themselves up in the last three decades, and now each is regarded as a top national liberal arts college. Sewanee appears to be poised to do the same (and no, not an accident that Sewanee brought in the former president of Middlebury).