Oberlin vs Lawrence AMA

MusicEdGuy
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:41:41 +0000

@friendbullwinkle Sorry, I haven’t been on here in a week; I was traveling all of last week. The comment about Oberlin being less flustering than Lawrence is honestly more about Lawrence than it is about Oberlin. Oberlin students seem to have a bit more time to breathe because the school is on semesters and winter term can be pretty much whatever you make of it. Lawrence is on trimesters, which makes it way more rigorous than it might otherwise be since you’re fitting classes into 10 weeks instead of 15. As for creative writing, I know that Oberlin has a very serious program that doesn’t accept every person who tries to get in. (This happened to my roommate and he ended up picking two other majors instead.) I would guess that Kenyon is a better environment in which to be casually involved in music, as my knowledge of the situation here is that non-conservatory music feels undervalued by many who aren’t in the conservatory. That said, both schools are great places to learn and to be creative. Kenyon students may be a bit more vocationally-oriented, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never been to that campus.