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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The article also mentioned Bucknell didn't meet their enrollment target.[/quote]

That surprised me. It seems like a competitive school at least to me. Oberlin is surprising as well. It is a known school. I hate saying this, but I wonder if the social justice outrage of several years ago turned people off to certain schools. I think people are willing to bite the bullet for schools like Harvard and Yale, but not for Oberlin?[/quote]

It dropped in the rankings, I think, and the lawsuit verdict wasn’t a good luck.[/quote]

I think Oberlin’s problems started long before that lawsuit. And the cultural bent of the college isn’t the issue [/quote]

Certainly the issues presented in the article predated the law suit.  The interesting comparison would be Kenyon, they seem well positioned to scoop up the wealthy applicants.  They own their town and have created a walled garden feel.  The student body seems strikingly wealthy, including international.  They also seemed to use not being need-blind as a selling point.[/quote]

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