@morandi, that’s all lovely, but also quite subjective. If there is to be any meaningful exchange between people, there has to be some common understanding what’s what.
So if you are acquainted with Whitman, nothing about the idea that it’s relatively isolated should strike you as funny.
That is a very different topic than whether your kid likes it or not, and what he/she finds there. Of course if they love it, then the location won’t matter too much or, in cases like your son’s, at all.
But if someone asks the genuine question if the school is remote, I think you have to answer ‘yes’. Then chime in with all that’s wonderful about Walla Walla … and there’s lots to that. But as one poster up the thread put it, if you’re trying to sell Whitman by making an argument that WW is not in the middle of nowhere, you’re just working too hard.
The school and the town will overcome its isolation, or it won’t. Depends on the kid.