A couple questions about Hendrix...

AnagramPanda
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:53:28 +0000

I’m a freshman from a high school about Hendrix’s size, so I can’t help a ton regarding whether the school feels too cramped after a few years, but I can tell you that there’s plenty of groups and activities to participate in. If you get bored of hanging out with Unity members, try out Sword Club. If you want to meet people outside of Italian Club, volunteer with the VAC one Saturday. There’s plenty of things to do, and diversifying what you do can help diversify the people you befriend.
Also, I’d say Hendrix has a fairly intellectual atmosphere. When hanging out during finals week one of my friends made a Socrates allusion in the middle of conversation (granted, it was from the part read in Journeys, so all Hendrix students know it). Of course, again, it depends who you hang out with. Martin Hall partiers are probably not the most intellectual group of friends you could find at Hendrix, for example.
As far as Hendrix being a back-up school… well, it kind of is, but not in a bad way. Let me explain. A lot of very smart kids use Hendrix as a back-up school and end up attending, often because of the good scholarships offered. So, despite the deceptively high acceptance rate, Hendrix ends up with a smart group of kids, for the most part. And I think the school’s somewhat self-selective, too- after all, mostly smart kids apply to a school where reading Plato and Darwin is part of the freshman curriculum.
Feel free to contact me if you have any more questions. As far as meeting more high school seniors interested in the school, sometime in the near future there should be a Facebook group called something like Hendrix College Class of 2015, and you can check that out. I used the one for 2014 as a prospie, and it helped a lot. :)