I know several kids who have gone to Elon and loved it.

My friends child went there. The parents were not thrilled with the greek/drinking culture....but that may be common elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:good for Elon, but I think it is funny. I grew up in NC and before the re-branding, it was um not a college of choice.

Same with Northeastern. I grew up in Boston and it was a third-tier commuter school with a crumbling campus that you didn't go to unless you had no other options. Certainly no kids coming in from across the country/world like there are now.

Many schools have re-branded and are barely recognizable to those who knew them from years past. Not exclusive to Elon.

Anonymous wrote:good for Elon, but I think it is funny. I grew up in NC and before the re-branding, it was um not a college of choice.

+1

There's always a few kids from our MD private who head there. Everyone who goes seems to really like it.

Anonymous wrote:good for Elon, but I think it is funny. I grew up in NC and before the re-branding, it was um not a college of choice.

It's true of a lot of sleepy little liberal arts colleges that typically only drew from their local area. Credit two things with the change - US News & World Report rankings started in the early 80s, and the internet in the mid-1990s. Schools realized that they could expand their reach by taking steps to drive themselves up the rankings, and the internet enabled them to create an online presence that could attract people from farther away. A lot of the popular schools today weren't on people's radar a generation ago.

good for Elon, but I think it is funny. I grew up in NC and before the re-branding, it was um not a college of choice.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who visited and liked the school, but the town left a lot to be desired.

That was the single biggest (only?) drawback for my kid and why she went elsewhere.

I know someone who visited and liked the school, but the town left a lot to be desired.

Known to have happy students and not to have a pressure cooker environment academically.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated and is headed right in to medical school. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Elon. So many positives. If you can afford it, it is wonderful.

Meant to add that Elon is known for the Communications and (I think) Business schools. But they sciences are impressive. They have a human cadaver lab, and my daughter said that she is not worried about Anatomy next year in medical school, and the cadaver based Anatomy and Physiology classes at Elon were intense.

* the sciences. Also, they have a dual degree engineering program with VT and a few other schools (maybe Wake?)

We loved it, visited several times, and my kid was admitted with honors or fellows or something like that. It was one of her top choices. I was somewhat disappointed that she chose another school. In researching it, we talked with a lot of other families of current and former students and heard nothing but positive experiences.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated and is headed right in to medical school. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Elon. So many positives. If you can afford it, it is wonderful.

Meant to add that Elon is known for the Communications and (I think) Business schools. But they sciences are impressive. They have a human cadaver lab, and my daughter said that she is not worried about Anatomy next year in medical school, and the cadaver based Anatomy and Physiology classes at Elon were intense.

My daughter just graduated and is headed right in to medical school. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Elon. So many positives. If you can afford it, it is wonderful.

I noticed on the Whitman HS destination thread that a number of kids were headed to Elon next year. I don't know much about Elon but it looks like a decent deal, no? I see a 12:1 student-teacher ratio, avg class size of 20 students, a location not terribly far from the Research Triangle and a school that's neither too big nor small. It's hard to tell how it'd compare to other schools nationwide because of the US News category it's in (it's #1 in Southern regional universities). And... it looks like a relative bargain for people who won't get financial aid.
https://www.elon.edu/e/admissions/undergraduate/financial-aid/index.html
So if anyone has experience with it, could you share what you know?