Scootron, Thanks for the details about your Daughter's merit aid at Hendrix. It's a great school that is overlooked because it's in Arkansas. Their student stats seem to rise every year. I know we have had several other posters here in the past who had similiar stats and received similiar offers from Hendrix. They are also really working on broadening their geographic base and seem to be enticing more top out of state students with those merit awards.
When we visited Earlham a few weeks ago, there was a girl on the tour who had a Hendrix sweat shirt on. I asked her if she was considering Hendrix and she said that she had received a huge merit award from them and that she had visited twice and felt the academics were excellent. Our Earlham tour guide overheard our conversation and said that he had two friends who are at Earlham (he was from NH, by the way) and has visited a few times. He said that he thought that Hendrix might actually have a slight edge over Earlham in terms of academics but that both schools were very similiar in terms of the type of students and the overall feel of the campus. He said he was very surprised when he visited that there could be such a liberal and laid back school in Arkansas. The girl on the tour agreed and said she had felt right at home at Hendrix (she was from Illiniois) and that she liked the proximity to Little Rock. Sounded to me like she was leaning towards Hendrix over Earlham.
We won't be able to make it down to Hendrix before she applies, but my daughter is seriously thinking about applying. And she loves those pictures of the Peacan court.