Is Kenyon a good fit for me?

Motherprof
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:58:12 +0000

hmph238:

https://youtu.be/mZED3H0RlKA

I watched this video on Kenyon’s YouTube and the students seem to be friendly and also diverse in terms of personality. I also saw 3 POC. Does this actually do a good job of reflecting the student body? I know it’s only a short video with a few students.

I don’t have time to watch the video, but in terms of personality and friendliness, my impression is yes, Kenyon students are very friendly and there’s a wide range of personalities and interests. This is based not only on my daughter’s experience; an acquaintance told me her daughter had transferred to Kenyon from another college and found Kenyon students to be both very smart AND kind (her own words; this was in contrast to her previous college where she found people to be too snarky). A current student (from NYC), whom we consulted this spring when my daughter was making her final college decision, said the pandemic was extremely hard for her and her friends: they’re such a closely-knit community, and the separation was particularly painful.

I’m not saying this wouldn’t be the case in other colleges suggested in this thread, I’m sure students there are very nice and diverse (and some are indeed more racially diverse), I’m just answering the Kenyon-specific question. In fact, my daughter was accepted to and seriously considered most of the other Midwestern colleges mentioned in this thread and would probably be happy in any of them, but a mix of various factors tipped the scale in favor of Kenyon.