Elon University Question

Georgia30720
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:32:37 +0000

My son is currently an MT freshman and he LOVES it there. When we first began researching schools, it was not his first choice. The first time we had ever been there was the day he auditioned and it immediately became the place he wanted to go to school. The campus is beautiful, the people are very nice and as one student said to us “They really spoil us here.”

Yes, there are some students there from pretty wealthy backgrounds, but we are certainly not one of those, and I think that is true for more students than you might think. As far as being conservative, politically my son said the school leaned Obama. I suppose that’s because, even though the school is in the South, which most people think is quite conservative, there are students from all over at Elon.

Religious I don’t know so much about. We are Protestant, and I know of one student in the freshman class who is Catholic and a few that are Jewish.

I’d say go ahead and apply EA and schedule an audition. If you get an academic rejection, you can always cancel. The one thing I learned from this process last year is that schools are not always what they seem on paper. My son HATED the location of his original first-choice school, and fell in love with Elon. I really think you have to visit the location to see if it is a good fit for you.