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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grinnell is great - a bit too woke and wacky but it’s massively underrated

Oberlin/kenyon/denison are really hampered by Ohio — Ohio is truly dire whereas the middle of Iowa can be pretty in a little house on prairie way (golden hour Iowa skies are gorgeous)

If the Ohio schools were in traverse city or Madison or Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho , they would be ranked higher.

Ohio is not just “in the Midwest”

It’s one of the most run down and depressing states even compared to non-coastal states [/quote]
I grew up in NW PA and went to Pitt. I know run-down and depressed towns.

We wide the OH college tour last year. We were all pleasantly surprised. I was expecting our travels around OH to be similar to our travels around rural parts of PA- rundown and depressing. Columbus and the surrounding areas were anything but run down and depressing. I found the areas on the way to Kenyon and surrounding Kenyon to be much prettier than rural parts of PA. 
Cleveland was also nicer than I thought. I’m a big Pittsburgh booster (seriously, if you haven’t visited, just go) and always enjoy the vibrancy of Oakland and Pitts campus, but the Case neighborhood was just as vibrant and dare I say I found it nicer.

Don’t dismiss OH. You may be pleasantly surprised.[/quote]

Agree. There are many delightful areas in the Midwest, and parts of Ohio are very pretty. Just recently, I've heard people enthusing about Midwestern SLACs I'd barely heard of ... Luther, Coe, and Lake Forest. They say the campuses are beautiful, and the kids get the same small classes and nurturing professors they'd get at some of the better-known SLACs. [/quote]

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