<p>visited both schools with son and found them quite different. Academics great at both, but dominant cultures very different. Kenyon felt more like a boarding school. Seemed to be a lot of jocks and not much to do on campus aside from dorm parties (w/ what appeared to be a good bit of drinking) Oberlin felt a little more edgy and urban, despite its rural location and there seemed to be more going on on campus from a cultural standpoint. </p>
<p>My son (who is not a hippie, and increasingly less liberal) chose Oberlin for those reasons.</p>