Again, not first-hand, but Berea has been around for a long, long time. I’m actually surprised that it survived so many shocks to the world and national economies over the years, with its business model intact. I met a fellow summer school counselor from there years ago and was very impressed by her intelligence, and upbeat attitude. She made me wish I’d known about Berea when I was still applying to colleges. Unfortunately, Berea has sort of the same “disadvantage“ that so-called, elite colleges have in the sense that middle-class kids would fall through the same donut hole that works against their attending, only from the other side - their families make too much money.