It's a great little school, genuinely nurturing, and a place that truly values learning. Definitely not for everyone. For kids who don't mind a rural setting it's kind of like boarding school but with beer.... and i mean that in a good way... it is sort of magical. people say it looks like Hogwarts and there is something too that. it's small, it's intense, it's close knit... has a famous literary traditon... most faculty live on campus and students are constantly seeing profs, being invited to their homes for dinner, going on hikes with them, etc. for some kids it is absolute heaven: intellectual but fun, at school with your 1800 best friends in a magical place on top of a mountain. for other kids it's just too small, too cute, too cosy, too intense.

it is definitely gaining more name recognition outside the south and probably poised to climb rapidly in USNEWS etc, which may not be such a good thing... right now i think kids very much self-select to go there, and if it rises much higher in the rankings it will start to get more kids who go just because of the ranking, not because they "get" the place.

Anonymous wrote:My impression is academically average, bland, conservative kids from the south.

Your impression is wrong. It’s isolated and the the kids “dress” for class, but it attracts excellent students. Everyone I know who went there had top scores and grades from private schools. The student body leans conservative because until recently it had only regional popularity, but it’s Episcopal so it’s not going to be a conservative environment.

Sample size of two, but the Sewanee grads I know are both very preppy, Southern, UMC. Both speak very highly of their experience there.

Extremely. Don’t kid yourself. VT is in a town. Sewanee is not.

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Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

An hour from Chattanooga? That's pretty isolated in my book.

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Poster said extremely (AF). You say pretty. Those are different things. It’s a little more than an hour from the 24th biggest city in the US. VT is more isolated.

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Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

An hour from Chattanooga? That's pretty isolated in my book.

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My impression is academically average, bland, conservative kids from the south.

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Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

An hour from Chattanooga? That's pretty isolated in my book.

Very Episcopalian.

It is a really beautiful school. Their choir is fantastic. It could be really isolating for some kids.

Anonymous wrote:Percentage of students receiving Fulbrights. Percentage of students receiving Rhodes scholarships.
Smaller faculty student ratio.

What an awesome burn. Where did objective dummy go? Cat got your tongue?

Anonymous wrote:Isolated AF.

Not really. Chattanooga, a city of 180,000 people is less than an hour away, and Nashville, a city of nearly two million, is about an hour twenty.

Isolated AF.

Sewanee seems to be getting both more popular and more competitive. it's ranked 43 by US news now, just above Connecticut College and just below Skidmore. my sense is that for a long time it was very much a southern school, viewed as prestigious within the south but largely unknown outside the south, but suddenly it is getting more of a national reputation. Not sure if that is bc it has made a concerted effort to market beyond the south or if it is just random. But it seems to have been a very popular choice for kids at DC's private this year.

Anonymous wrote:I think you Sewanee boosters need to give it a rest. It's a third tier lac with a decent regional reputation.

The buthurt of being rejected. I know how it is.

Well, actually, I don't.