Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 17:22     Subject: College of Wooster
We toured Wooster and got a very academic vibe (which is what my student wants). Our tour guide was the child of a professor at different college. I have heard anecdotally that professors like sending their kids there. Wooster's model with the senior capstone is great for kids thinking of applying to grad school.

They make a very big deal about completing your capstone. Supposedly students camp out to be "the first one to hand it in."

https://wooster.edu/candy/

Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 16:58     Subject: College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:We visited Wooster, Oberlin and Kenyon while looking at SLACs.
My DS only applied to Kenyon of the 3 and wound up at Mac. My DS was turned off when he sat in on a class at Wooster and the student he sat behind was really unengaged - playing a game on his laptop the entire class. He said vs other places he sat in on - the students were just not as engaged. (He sat in a morning class at Kenyon and an afternoon class to Wooster so had a reference point)

I wanted him to like it - as I thought the commitment to independent research would be valuable something that would be a fit.



okay, but when I visited Mac in 1987, I attended a class and the kid in front of me was listening to the Minnesota Twins game on headphones through the entire class. (I judged Mac for this too). Now your kid is there and presumably quite engaged. I'm glad your kid is happy, and I think Mac is a great school. I share this only to say that n=1 judgements probably exist everywhere.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 14:41     Subject: College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We visited Wooster, Oberlin and Kenyon while looking at SLACs.
My DS only applied to Kenyon of the 3 and wound up at Mac. My DS was turned off when he sat in on a class at Wooster and the student he sat behind was really unengaged - playing a game on his laptop the entire class. He said vs other places he sat in on - the students were just not as engaged. (He sat in a morning class at Kenyon and an afternoon class to Wooster so had a reference point)

I wanted him to like it - as I thought the commitment to independent research would be valuable something that would be a fit.



Jesus Christ.


I don't think so. He said it was just some random college kid.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 14:38     Subject: Re:College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Curious why Wooster would be the safety of choice over Denison (for Ohio LAC), Kenyon, or Oberlin? Nothing against Wooster, just wondering.

Denison admits 17%. Kenyon/Oberlin 30%. Wooster admits 50%. Do you understand now?


There is only one school on this list we'd take seriously as an undergrad institution when hiring at an elite law firm, and it has nothing to do with acceptance rates. Do you understand now?


Ohhh. Well if big law says it, it must be true of the whole world! Classic response.


This is hilarious! As someone who has does untold amounts of hiring at big law, I can tell you no one would differentiate anything based on these schools. Where did they go to law school? How did they do? Can they write?





They could be talking about hiring legal assistants right out of college. Surely you are aware that some law firms do this and only from elite colleges?


Are you in the right thread? We aren’t talking about elite colleges. In addition, the weird big law poster said they “only look at one school and it has nothing to do with admissions difficulty.” And you know d@mn well they weren’t talking about legal assistants anyway.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 14:34     Subject: College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:We visited Wooster, Oberlin and Kenyon while looking at SLACs.
My DS only applied to Kenyon of the 3 and wound up at Mac. My DS was turned off when he sat in on a class at Wooster and the student he sat behind was really unengaged - playing a game on his laptop the entire class. He said vs other places he sat in on - the students were just not as engaged. (He sat in a morning class at Kenyon and an afternoon class to Wooster so had a reference point)

I wanted him to like it - as I thought the commitment to independent research would be valuable something that would be a fit.



Jesus Christ.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 14:29     Subject: College of Wooster
We visited Wooster, Oberlin and Kenyon while looking at SLACs.
My DS only applied to Kenyon of the 3 and wound up at Mac. My DS was turned off when he sat in on a class at Wooster and the student he sat behind was really unengaged - playing a game on his laptop the entire class. He said vs other places he sat in on - the students were just not as engaged. (He sat in a morning class at Kenyon and an afternoon class to Wooster so had a reference point)

I wanted him to like it - as I thought the commitment to independent research would be valuable something that would be a fit.

Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 13:27     Subject: College of Wooster
How woke is Wooster?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 13:24     Subject: Re:College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Curious why Wooster would be the safety of choice over Denison (for Ohio LAC), Kenyon, or Oberlin? Nothing against Wooster, just wondering.

Denison admits 17%. Kenyon/Oberlin 30%. Wooster admits 50%. Do you understand now?


There is only one school on this list we'd take seriously as an undergrad institution when hiring at an elite law firm, and it has nothing to do with acceptance rates. Do you understand now?


Ohhh. Well if big law says it, it must be true of the whole world! Classic response.


This is hilarious! As someone who has does untold amounts of hiring at big law, I can tell you no one would differentiate anything based on these schools. Where did they go to law school? How did they do? Can they write?





They could be talking about hiring legal assistants right out of college. Surely you are aware that some law firms do this and only from elite colleges?
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 10:05     Subject: College of Wooster
A few years ago, I was in Wooster. Didn't walk the campus but it looked nice driving by. The town is nice. Not very big. It is in the middle of nowhere.
Anonymous
Post 07/09/2025 09:28     Subject: Re:College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Curious why Wooster would be the safety of choice over Denison (for Ohio LAC), Kenyon, or Oberlin? Nothing against Wooster, just wondering.

Denison admits 17%. Kenyon/Oberlin 30%. Wooster admits 50%. Do you understand now?


There is only one school on this list we'd take seriously as an undergrad institution when hiring at an elite law firm, and it has nothing to do with acceptance rates. Do you understand now?



Truly weird post.


Another BigLaw hiring partner here. This is BS. We look at law school and any post-grad, post-law school experience and how the applicant did in both. Truth is after that first job out of law school, the Ivy applicants end up in the same place as those who went to 3rd tier law firms.
Anonymous
Post 07/08/2025 22:59     Subject: College of Wooster
I really liked this school when we visited, and so did DD. It was so friendly, quite pretty, and we loved the senior independent research project they all do. We had visited more selective east coast schools, but this was the first one where I thought, “oh, she could be really happy here.”
Anonymous
Post 07/08/2025 22:43     Subject: Re:College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Curious why Wooster would be the safety of choice over Denison (for Ohio LAC), Kenyon, or Oberlin? Nothing against Wooster, just wondering.

Denison admits 17%. Kenyon/Oberlin 30%. Wooster admits 50%. Do you understand now?


There is only one school on this list we'd take seriously as an undergrad institution when hiring at an elite law firm, and it has nothing to do with acceptance rates. Do you understand now?



Truly weird post.
Anonymous
Post 07/08/2025 22:41     Subject: College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:Wooster is having serious financial issues. Beware


Yep read the Wooster Voice issues from this spring. Some dorms are new and nice and others are literally falling apart.

Anonymous
Post 07/08/2025 22:25     Subject: Re:College of Wooster
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Curious why Wooster would be the safety of choice over Denison (for Ohio LAC), Kenyon, or Oberlin? Nothing against Wooster, just wondering.

Denison admits 17%. Kenyon/Oberlin 30%. Wooster admits 50%. Do you understand now?


There is only one school on this list we'd take seriously as an undergrad institution when hiring at an elite law firm, and it has nothing to do with acceptance rates. Do you understand now?


Ohhh. Well if big law says it, it must be true of the whole world! Classic response.


This is hilarious! As someone who has does untold amounts of hiring at big law, I can tell you no one would differentiate anything based on these schools. Where did they go to law school? How did they do? Can they write?