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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sewanee?  I have never heard of this school and I'm familiar with good small liberal arts schools like Carleton, Reed, Kenyon, etc.

The Ivies care about parents attending for legacy status...[/quote]

You may have heard of Sewanee as The University of the South (I think that's older terminology -- "Sewanee" appears to the nickname that stuck, like calling the U.S. Military Academy "West Point").  Literati might associate it most with the [i]Sewanee Review[/i], one of the granddaddies of literary quarterlies in the US which published a lot of important writers (often Southern) like Flannery O'Connor and Robert Penn Warren.  It is very good but very, very regional in its student body -- there's an increasing DC presence (which is mostly about as Northern as it gets) but it's still mainly Southern.  Huge gorgeous campus on a Tennessee mountain top.  Their current president was the former president of Middlebury so it looks like they are taking a run at increasing their national reach/recognition.  [/quote]

Sewanee and the new president (the former Middlebury guy) got a fair amount of notice a couple years ago for cutting tuition by 10% (it's still pretty pricey) -- this has come up a fair amount in terms of the current dialogue in higher education (independent schools, please take notice!) of crazily escalating tuition costs.  He's an interesting guy.[/quote]

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