I would love to hear if anyone else has impressions of Wooster. My DD was accepted with very nice merit, and she is strongly considering it.
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When @Andygp was originally considering Kalamazoo and Wooster, there were a number of thoughtful posts about both schools in the thread, but here is a link to my post:
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Also a link to a post @pishicaca wrote about their time at wooster:
But the entire thread if worth reading. Also just search for wooster and lots of different posts will come up. 
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Thanks much. He just went back to from India and was certainly looking forward to going to the college and doing lots of things in the spring semester (too many I am wondering!) . He will apply for some summer internships and lab research positions as wel. Will come to know how is that support especially for international students in COW.
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Thereâs no doubt that itâs small for some students and some leave, but I would argue that some attrition is likely due to the fact that they include more local kids from Ohio who might not stay on or move back home. That is unlike Kenyon and other LACs that admit selected applicants from west/east coast but very few from Ohio. I really respect COWâs diversity , including Ohio and international students.
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I donât know how many out of state and international in Kenyon etc. But Wooster seems to have 66%+ from out of Ohio with 16% international. That is quite high for LACs I think.
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This site can be convenient for comparing percentages of international students across colleges:
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Thanks for the update! My daughter loved her small school (Susquehanna). Some of the classes were easy for her, but she had excellent mentors and a wonderful experience. Iâm happy for your son. ]
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hiii sir,I think u replied to one of my posts about wooster:) Is wooster as a town really that boring? If it has atleast a few attractions then also it will be okay for me and are the other students nice like was it easy for ur son to make friends,thank u
I stayed in Wooster for @10 days. I didnât think it is boring. There are at least 25 good restaurants. Also on weekends you have live music playing in downtown. Of course this is a parentâs view. My son doesnât find it boring but does miss city life things that he could do in larger towns or cities like going to arcades etc. If you make friends easily then I donât feel you will have dearth of things to do. Club, frat activities, watching professional football together, movies etc. It will also help immensely if you play some sport like basketball to make quick friends.
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The biggest problem for an international is access to airport and number of hops you have to do to reach your home city. Uber etc. is quite flaky. College shuttle is not necessarily convenient and gets full quickly. It can be managed but you have to work to arrange for the rides to airport.
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Thank you for the update. Wooster was on the final list for my son in 2020, though I was more excited about Wooster than my son. 
I still look at it as the âone that got awayâ and wish he had accepted their offer.
As an almost-Wooster-Dad, itâs gratifying and rewarding to read your sonâs (and your) experience at Wooster. Thanks and Please keep up the updates.
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Yes! Impressions after the second semester will be coming soon
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Just found this post and canât believe I missed the older ones when I was hunting the web last year for any and all information when my daughter was finalizing college decisions. She is a freshman at College of Wooster, right now in the last few weeks of her second semesterâŠso crunch time.
I too, am also very impressed with the College of Wooster as a SLAC, and also feel she has really found the absolute right place for her. The professors are for the most part absolutely fabulous and probably the best thing at Wooster. Daughter had competing excellent scholarship choices at other SLACs, but Wooster had the right fit in regards to her desired major and minor.
I have watched my daughter grow so much just in the short time she has been away at college. She has grown academically, as well as, developed so much in terms of self-esteem, financial management, work ethic, interpersonal relationships, scheduling and planning, conflict resolution, perseverance, advocating for herself, etc. etc. etc. In many ways, she had quite good levels of some of these things before leaving for college, but the independent college experience has exposed little gaps in these skills, and she has risen to the challenge and gained a more thorough understanding of how to navigate her world, and solidify her abilities. Amazing how they donât just go away to get a good education, but to become the strong, independent people we know they can and need to become.
When it comes to the town, I agree that the college should really work much harder to develop the best possible relationship with the townspeople. My daughter has noticed regular occurrences of townspeople driving through the main street that cuts across the campus in an exasperated and unsafe fashion. She âgetsâ that quite a lot of the townspeople donât necessarily like the college or its students. Nonetheless, that has not stopped her from regularly venturing into town on walks to hit up Drugmart for some holiday decor to decorate her dorm room door, or to visit the used bookstore where I am sure easily half of her work study money has been spent buying books she wants to read in her down time, or getting some bubble tea, or picking up some Indian food at the Curry Pot restaurant on occasion.
She has also availed herself of the free school operated shuttle that takes the college kids to the newer part of town on a regular enough basis where she stocks up on necessities from Walmart. So, for her, so far, the town has not felt too small. She may be bored to tears with these options come her third year and beyond but so far, it seems good enough.
Classes for her have been a mix between not that challenging to moderately challenging, with the basic freshman required fare being the not that challenging balanced out with some more weed out style intro classes that have been more moderately challenging. She came from a pretty rigorous suburban high school so was well prepared to succeed, although based on my understanding of the rigors of international studies, probably not as ready as Andygpâs son to bat it out of the field on the first try, which is fine. I wanted her to go to a school that made the academics rigorous enough, but not so much that the kids felt like they were drowning two weeks into each semester. I have no doubt that each semester the difficulty quotient will be raised just enough to push these college students to grow and learn, as a result of being pushed out of their comfort zones.
Bottomline, I think the College of Wooster is highly underrated. It is a gem, and one that I am so glad we found.
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Wow such a fabulous review! I feel pretty much the same for my kid. Letâs see how it pans out in sophomore year.
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My D had good experiences using GoBus to visit other Ohio colleges. I donât know how well they keep to their schedule. She used it for visiting friends not catching a flight, but it looks like it does have a stop at the Columbus airport.
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