<p>A minor point about your “out there” comment. Feedback from my second year Obie is that compared to other schools that classmates have attended Oberlin is more of a libertarian place; that is, it’s more accepting of people of all persuasions than many other colleges. Maybe it’s the intellectual bent . . . maybe it’s the social history (deliberately and proudly open to ALL people since its founding . . . or maybe it’s because with all the conservatiory students it’s not strange to see students walking around campus in formal dress (coats and ties or long formal dresses). </p>
<p>And, hey, it’s way closer to Cleveland than Amherst is to Boston :-)</p>