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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a recent Kenyon graduate and played a varsity sport there for four years.  She loved everything about her experience at Kenyon.  While most of her friends were athletes, she wanted to be part of a broader friend group, as she was in high school, so she sought out friends who were not athletes, including friends from her dorm, her major classes, and her sorority (which she chose because it was not only made up of athletes).  She had wonderful teachers and grew immensely in intellectual curiosity, the ability to ask thoughtful and probing questions, and in communication skills.  Kenyon prepared her well to find a job that she loves.

When people say that small colleges are just an extension of high school, I don't understand what they mean.  My husband and I are both graduates of small colleges -- not the same one and neither of us went to Kenyon-- and neither of us felt like our college experience was anything like high school.  Here it's worth noting that we went to very different kinds of high schools -- my husband at a large public school in a midwestern university town and I at a small public school in a suburb of New York.  We do both feel that as graduates of small colleges, we are grateful for the close and lasting friendships we made and for the dedicated and generous professors who taught us.  Additionally, we feel that our small colleges prepared us well for law school (and in my husband's case, a dual-degree in public policy) and for careers as lawyers in government, NGOs and private practice.

OP, I wish your daughter the best as she completes high school and moves on to college.  If she's an Owl, good luck to her and her team!    [/quote]

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