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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my advice. If she can get into Bryn Mawr, then she can likely get into Smith.  We visited both, and Smith is so much more dynamic and well resourced. Bryn Mawr seemed faded and oddly overemphasizes it its relationship with Haverford  (which seems far less invested in the relationship).  I'd definitely visit Smith before doing ED. And while there, visit Mount Holyoke as well, which our DD and I also liked better than Bryn Mawr, and seemed like a great community.

Kenyon is a very good college and they definitely promote their writing program.  But I've been there a lot over the past few years for another child's sports events, and Kenyon is truly in the middle of nowhere.  It's a fairly nice campus with a great athletic center. But you truly can't believe how isolated it is until you drive there.  I would also add that, despite some artsy writing students, the overall vibe feels more Midwestern umc subueban somewhat preppy.

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Bryn Mawr is more invested in the bi-co relationship? Could you expand on that?[/quote]

Yeah, during our tour, our guide constantly talked about how they could take classes at Hacerford, go to social events as well as eat there.  We went to the info session and got lots more references to Haverford.  We then drove over to Haverford because Bryn Mawr sold it so well.  During the info session at Haverford, there was a brief mention of Bryn Mawr, but it got less play than letting us know that Haverford students could also take classes at Penn and Swarthmore.  And during the tour, our guide didn't say anything about Bryn Mawr until we passed the little bus and the Bryn Mawr students all piled out of it.  BTW Haverford was pretty and very nicely maintained, but school is very small even for a SLAC, and seemed very white-bread suburban.

FWIW my daughter ED'd at another SLAC (coed FWIW), but would have applied to Smith and Mount Holyoke of schools in my posts.

On the coed side, you may also want to look at Wesleyan, Oberlin, and Skidmore, as schools that might also be a good fit for a smart, quieter kid who likes writing and has a kind, supportive environment for kids like her (which describes one of my kids as well).[/quote]

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