I appreciated your “subjective” review of your experience at Wooster. Most people on CC are adult enough to realize that your review is subjective and able to process it as such. Kudos to you for writing a thoughtful account of your experiences at Wooster. It is important to hear actual subjective accounts in addition to the concrete objective fact too. At the very least it highlights some aspects that a potential student may want to investigate further before making a decision.
Visiting Profs and Adjunct Profs can be a problem and often times are not truly representative of the culture that a school is selling. It would be nice if schools were more transparent about a number of things like advising, how many classes are actually taught by TA’s, visiting profs, transfer rates (I’d like to know what the actual GPA is for any given major at a university) and a whole host of other statistics that could make a difference in the actual experience once on campus.
Glad you have found your niche at Kent. I took classes at Kent one summer (and classes at Akron U one summer too) while I was a student at Ohio U, neither school measured up to my experiences at OU. Some schools are a fit and other not. It is hard to know which is a fit until you are actually there and living it. OU has a reputation as a HUGE party school and as a non partier I never found the party atmosphere pervasive. Funny when I was in high school (in a town between Kent and Akron) Kent State was the place to go if you wanted to get into a bar and there was certainly a party atmosphere if you were looking for it. As a student, I felt Kent wasn’t very inviting socially nor the classes that I took (Russian and Calc) very challenging. I was taking the math class as a repeat for a class I had failed at OU and was easily able to earn a B. But just because that was my experience doesn’t mean it will be your experience.
D16 returned from her accepted student visit at Wooster and said “It would be a great school if they could just pick it up and move it to a city.” It’s not a fit for her but it might well be for others.