<p>**I don’t know how that answers anything in my email…but I’ll try to provide a short list of how your reasons compare with the other Ohio Five Schools. </p>
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<li>Ranked among the top 50 national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report</li>
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<p>*Okay, that’s the most solid reason to pick a college. With the exception of Wooster and OWU, you can say the same thing for the other Ohio Five schools.</p>
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<li>Excellent faculty (Many have national reputations in their fields; each year faculty members win national awards for teaching excellence. Petersons)</li>
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<p>*You can say the same thing for just about any LAC, let alone the other Ohio Five schools.</p>
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<li>Best athletics program in the NCAC (Denison has won seven consecutive NCAC All-Sports Trophies. Also worth noting: its tennis coach was named ITA National Womens Coach of the Year last year and this year Denisons mens lacrosse coach was named as an assistant coach for the U.S. national lacrosse team). </li>
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<p>*Same here.</p>
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<li>Numerous Denison students win fellowship awards each year (Denison has had 34 NCAA Postgraduate Scholars, placing it fourth among NCAA Division III institutions in the number of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships earned. In the last 10 years, it has produced 19 Fulbright Scholarship winners. Just recently, two students won Goldwater Foundation Scholarships and one student won a Truman Scholarship). </li>
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<p>*No Oberlin, Kenyon or Ohio Wesleyan student has ever won a scholarship :)</p>
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<li>Possesses one of the most beautiful campuses in the Midwest. In fact, Loren Pope, author of Colleges that Change Peoples Lives, comments, “There is no prettier campus in the country.”</li>
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<p>*That’s true. The campus is perhaps just as beautiful as the one of Oberlin, Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan.</p>
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<li>Denisons alumni network is very strong as evidenced by the schools large endowment. </li>
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<p>*Okay. The endowment is not because of a strong alumni network, but because of a good performance of Denison’s investment portfolio.</p>
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<li>Its new science facilities are very impressive.</li>
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<p>*Oberlin and Ohio Wesleyan just improved their science centers, too. </p>
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<li><p>Its Honors Program is well regarded.</p></li>
<li><p>In its 2003 edition, Princeton Review gave Denison a No. 1 ranking in “Class discussion encouraged.”</p></li>
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<p>*I think all of the Ohio Five Schools are ranked highly in one category or another. Oberlin in “Most gay-accepting school”. Ohio Wesleyan in “students who never stop studying”. Wooster for its independent research capstone.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, Denison is an excellent school. Just trying to say that it is not getting hot for any reason that you won’t find at Oberlin, Kenyon, Wooster or Ohio Wesleyan.</p>