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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another post has a link to the college acceptances over the last three years at Harvard-Westlake.  A whopping 59 of 62 applicants got into Kenyon, way more than any other better known LAC.  This confirms what I’ve said all along: it’s a rich kid school and it’s a second choice for everyone.[/quote]

Harvard-Westlake produces high-achieving students and has high average SAT and ACT scores that would make the average H-W student attractive to Kenyon. If Harvard-Westlake is funneling kids into Kenyon, it's probably because the school counselors are getting positive feedback from their Kenyon matriculants, and a school like that probably has pretty good school counselors. [/quote]

Nope.  At Amherst it was 6 of 33.  At UVA 12 of 62.  At Notre Dame 2 of 19.  Even at Michigan it’s 87 of 210.  The list goes on.  The “average” H-W student isn’t getting into these schools.  Also, it isn’t just the “average” H-W student getting into Kenyon.  It’s virtually all of them!
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But those students are a very selective group already… and if the counselors and teachers writing the recs went to Kenyon those matter more to Kenyon. It is not hard to understand why an already selected group of super high achieving students with letters written by alums of the schools would have a very high chance of getting in. It would be weird if they didn’t. [/quote]

I think it's true Kenyon is a bit easier to get into than top half NESCAC and similar schools, which are really hard to get into, and kind of lotteries. Those schools have to reject a lot of equally qualified kids.  Statistically Kenyon students seem to have just as strong a profile per the CDS. So maybe they pick up some of that overflow among the 50% of students who come in RD. I think the reality of students playing in the RD round, they didn't get into their clear first choice if they had one (with exceptions).

This is all kind of whatever though from my perspective. Because our first year DS is super happy and thriving in Gambier. We really could care less at this point if some NESCAC school is higher ranked or harder to get into. Very happy he is where he is.

Also, all the political talk above is nonsense. Ohio politics has no bearing on the experience. Ohio is a nice state with down to earth friendly people. Columbus is a thriving modern city; I read the fastest growing now in the US. Kenyon like almost all colleges seems quite liberal, but it is just fine for both liberal and conservative students and families. They seem to have stayed clear of the more extreme nonsense.[/quote]

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