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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would check out Denison and Wooster [/quote]

Denison is a great school but quite different. it is good to compare but DU isn’t a liberal arts college, and it is significantly larger.  [/quote]

Can you please share your thoughts on Denison and why do not consider it a liberal arts college ?

Thanks[/quote]

My DC is at Denison and I assure you that it is a liberal arts college.  It does have a professional focus and some of its majors reflect that.  Also, its career center is very active and well-funded, thanks to a big grant it received several years ago.

All that said - it is a liberal arts college.[/quote]

I’m a different poster, but I understand why the earlier poster said it wasn’t a liberal arts college, although of course it is. We did a tour last year of a number of liberal arts colleges, which included Denison. The admissions overview was very different from those of the other liberal arts colleges we visited. It definitely had a lee-professional bent with a presentation that focused heavily on “outcomes” - this is how much money you’ll make, this is where you’ll work, but no talk about their learning philosophy as a liberal arts college. It was a turn off for us, but it may strike the right notes for other people. 
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Sorry, but when there are Harvard grads that are unemployed, you bet your butt I want to know outcomes of every college. If college tuition is going to inflate to sky high numbers, there is no “time to get to know you” phase, even in a CTCL school. If you are unsure what you want to do or where you want to be, you go to community college. [/quote]

Well, actually my daughter wants to go to grad school and get her PhD. She's very clear about what she wants. Since Denison's presentation focused more on career placement than graduate placement, that was a turn off for us. No need to be rude.[/quote]

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