New rankings

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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:47:39 +0000

After a year of lurking and reading posts in this Whitman thread (many from you, Bompampo - thank you - they were very helpful) , I feel it’s time to contribute. My son is a first year from the East Coast. In the Spring of junior year I had never heard of Whitman and we weren’t looking at any West Coast schools. By October he/we were very taken with it and a November visit last year confirmed all that we had gleaned about the school, the administration and the overwhelming openness and positivity from the student body. On the last day he could, he converted his RD application to ED because “I just really love this school.” Pure and simple. One year later, three months in, he would say the same statement. He has loved the school since he unpacked that first August day. Not a single complaint: classes, professors, the campus, his many friends, the outdoors program, the cultural life, the fun, the challenge of the work. We looked long and hard, in his case, for the right social fit, above all, and he found it. It is a school with a particular, self-selecting type of student. Raising the national profile would be my only concern, as few Easterners have heard of it, but Whitties being Whitties – that probably would not be their highest priority anyway.