Longtime lurker, first time poster. Great thread! My S is first gen. and this thread has been a valuable resource in our search. Thank you all for the wonderful information!
He still has five schools in play, Sewanee, Rhodes, Centre, DePauw, and Denison.
We just came back from Denison, great visit minus his overnight which was pretty bad (S is interested in PPE program, and was put with a theater major who told him he was only hosting for the money and spoke negatively of the student body) I spoke with admissions and they had a Senior PPE major there in minutes. The student spent over an hour talking to my S, he then had an hour long conversation with a PPE professor. S came away from visit very impressed and laughed off his overnight experience. Side note, I had heard the student body was prep/jock, we didn’t get that impression at all. If anything, it was the most casually dressed of the LAC’s we have visited. COA is the lowest of the five.
S really liked Rhodes, probably the most geographically diverse student body along with Sewanee. The campus is obviously beautiful and Memphis is similar to our hometown Louisville. It felt crowded to me, S didn’t get the same feeling. Rhodes is still on the table, but the COA is very high and the drive is long for a helicopter dad on a beer budget.
We have visited Sewanee twice, most recently a couple weeks ago. I would go here if I could lol, the Domain is beautiful and feels like a fairy tale. S plans on going Greek but isn’t a partier, he loves the school but is apprehensive about the isolation. COA is high but in range.
Centre is less than two hours from home, and has been the plan for a few years. He has friends here and they love it, the study abroad is a huge plus. He’s visiting one more time for accepted students day on the 17th. S didn’t get the FA
we were expecting. COA is high but in range.
S left yesterday for PCB spring break, so we will adjust our “war board” when he returns.Initially he was interested in large schools so we visited FSU, Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Louisville, and Kentucky. We started this journey two years ago, and I have loved every minute of it.