I wanted to offer an update to my daughter’s college journey. As stated before we visited Vassar twice. She loved what she saw. We put her on the mailing list three times. On our second trip we asked for the new view book and were told they would be mailed the following week. This was in October of 2014. We did not receive it.
In the meantime visited many other colleges. She found many she could see herself attending. She applied to Bates, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Connecticut College, Grinnell, Hamilton, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Union, Skidmore, Wesleyan…and Kenyon ED2. We did not get to visit all of them, but picked based on websites, online reviews, literature she received, college guides, and consultation with her guidance counselor.
Vassar fell off the list when she started scrutinizing English departments. Although Vassar’s is incredibly strong, and certainly renowned for its options and opportunities, she did not find as much in their course offerings that matched her personal literary interests as she did at the other schools.
Kenyon in particular has all that she is looking for. She had a great visit and interview and was excited to learn about the possibility of being an associate at the Kenyon Review. I am thrilled to report that ED2 at Kenyon worked out, and she is headed to Gambier for college.
Interestingly, Vassar’s view book showed up in the mail on January 15, well after the application deadline. Perhaps they mistakenly put her on their high school class of 2017 mailing list.