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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The knock against Kenyon is that it is in the middle of nowhere.

That is actually its greatest strength and the true beauty of the place (breathtaking campus aside).  If forces opposites to interact, and often attract.

It's there that jocks (a third of the student body are recruited athletes), eloquent hipster navel gazers (they have a reknowned writing program), and boarding school party kids all converge and...wait for it...talk, engage and even hook up cross-species...
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I don't understand the middle of nowhere knock.  Most SLACs are in the "middle of nowhere."  That's part of the recipe.
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There has been a trend towards kids wanting bigger schools in or or adjacent to cities, hence, why "middle of nowhere" seems to be a ding these days. Fortunately neither of my DCs minded, but can be hard as there are not a ton of midsize schools in/near cities with a range of admit rates.[/quote]

Some experts are saying the pendulum is swinging back toward rural thanks in part to pandemic. At our Hs alone, while not LACs or particularly isolated, applications to Uvm and Umass Amherst have doubled this year. The parents are of the Dead Poet Society generation, too. [/quote]

Interesting. I had also heard that UMass and UVM apps were spiking as other publics become even more selective. Folks who had hoped to go to Pitt or liked as a target/safety are now needing to go further afield.[/quote]

I’m hoping for good things for those schools. They feel like good likely schools for my kid who doesn’t want to be in a city. And at least UVM (not sure on Umass) has generous and clear merit aid standards. [/quote]

To be clear - UVM is in a city - Burlington. The school is not smack dab in the middle of downtown, but it is not a rural setting. Lovely, though, as a lot of the campus looks to the west, Lake Champlain, etc. [/quote]

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