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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kenyon starting with 2024 working back to 2016 (because that’s all I can see easily):
39, 31, 30, 28, 27, 30, 26, 27, 25

No one is claiming it’s the same as Grinnell. But it was an unusual drop this this year due to a change in formula.

Oberlin started this time frame at 23. Grinnell at 19. Denison at 55. They’ve definitely moved in different directions. [/quote]

US News methodology emphasizes Kenyon’s weak spot, which is a lack of resources to devote to low income students. But what makes a school strong is the quality of the students, and if I look at Kenyon and Grinnell CDS, there is almost no difference at all. The truly elite LACs like Williams actually have noticeably higher test score profiles than either.

If you ranked the LACs by standardized test scores (adjusting appropriately for percentage that submit) you will get a rather different result versus US News. While test scores aren’t the end all be all, they mean more to me than Pell grants. Kenyon would rank much higher.

One theory I have is that Kenyon doesn’t really try as hard to manage down acceptance rate and yield.  It lets in 40-45 pct of the class ED (so it’s the first or second choice for almost half the class, like most other schools) but then they are more generous with acceptances to strong RD applicants, sometimes offering them merit aid, even if most don’t ultimately come. Bear in mind of course at any school other than the very elite ones, RD yield tends to be quite low and a lot of schools massage it with the waitlist.  Kenyon may in the end get a stronger student body by allowing a higher acceptance rate and lower yield, instead of playing this game where you reject students you totally would love to have just because the computer told you they have a low probability of enrolling.

My own subjective assessment is that Kenyon should be a top 25 school- at least on par with a Bates or Bryn Mawr. I see no reason why those schools are “better.”

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Your theory is ridiculous.  Kenyon (like Grinnell) has early decision.  Even with that and even offering merit aid they still have to let in a ton of applicants to come up with a class because their yield is so low.  It’s not from lack of trying.  It’s lack of interest.  [/quote]

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