| Catlover - I think he'll be admissible at over 99% of the colleges in America. People on CC tend to obsess over the minutiae of resumes, because we tend to be obsessed with the top dozen or so schools whose students have the highest GPAs and SATs in the country. In those cases, with the majority of the applicant pools having such high stats that there's no meaningful quantitative difference among them, ECs and awards become the tipping point of the application. But almost every campus is looking for students with your S's academic abilities.
Earlham is renowned as a supportive, inclusive, welcoming community. I recall that it's always been a campus tradition for the students there to line the entrance road and cheer as the new students arrive for move-in day. Also, go to Princeton Review and check out the "Rankings and Lists" for Whitman. Yeah, I know, it's fluff and the surveys aren't statistically rigorous, but here's a small college in small town Washington that ranks in their top 20 nationally in over a dozen different categories - all on the positive side - including #3 for "Quality of Life" and #1 for "Happiest Students." Those kinds of responses are hard to ignore. |