<p>It’s unlikely D will swim in college. Track is her best sport (D-I or borderline high jumper and sprinter, slightly weaker in shot put) and most colleges offer both both indoor and outdoor track seasons.</p>
<p>D liberal, but not rabidly so. And more preppie jock than hippie (current BF w/ shoulder length hair, notwithstanding) - - but far more sheltered than her appearance suggests (learned syn for marijuana in health class). </p>
<p>She’s not intimdated by the presence of smart kids (BF is scary smart), so long as there’s more to do on campus than play Scrabble in Greek (one friend’s descript of Swarthmore). But, she would not find a steady diet of green hair and bang-your-head-against-the-wall music at all appealing (almost refused to tour a sch where guide was very nice White boy - - w/ dreads).</p>
<p>From the posts, it sounds like Kenyon will be a better fit socially than Oberlin. Still, Kenyon can’t match Oberlin’s proximity to Cleveland (a girl has to get her hair done) or number of black students. I guess we’ll visit both. </p>
<p>Redim, you’re right, neither is a perfect match, but we were looking beyond the usual NE suspects to get a little geog “bounce.” We’ve considered Wesleyan and Bates (even w/ low % of black students, what jumper wouldn’t want to attend Dick Fosbury’s alma mater), but both are are “reach” schs and lousy w/ strong(er) NY area applicants.</p>
<p>Thanks all.</p>