<p>I know we all find out by April 1, but has anybody heard back since?</p>
<p>My s heard a couple of weeks ago. He went for a Selected Scholars Day this past weekend. He really enjoyed it. They were very welcoming. He is waiting for the results of the Top 100 Scholars competition so he isn't sure of the scholarship yet . They should hear results around March 20th. They did say to us however that they have finished going through everything and are sending out the rest of the acceptances in the next couple weeks. I'm sure you'll hear soon. They said they accepted about 40% of the applicants ( 4 out of every 10). It was a very well done experience. Nice school. His host was in his intended major. it was great for him to see what was happening there. They had tons of classes to sit in on. The professors were great. I'm sure it won't be long for you. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info... </p>
<p>Wow, the acceptance rate decreased! On other websites, it says it used to be 60%</p>
<p>Best of luck to your son!</p>
<p>They mentioned that. They say the pool and quality of students have increased. Good luck to you to. I'm sure you'll hear soon.</p>
<p>I got my acceptance letter today:)</p>
<p>Congrats! It's a great school.</p>
<p>What kind of gpa/sat scores are required for merit aid. How much merit aid are ppl getting.</p>
<p>I applied RD. I got accepted to NYU, but of all the schools I applied to, this is actually the one I'm most worried about getting into. It's starting to get hot and they get a lot more applicants. It's not my number one choice, but the swim team is very good, so I'm still considering it.</p>
<p>They are generous with Merit Aid. My S is still waiting to hear from the scholarship competition he was in so he isn't 100% sure yet. He is suppose to hear this week. He was invited into the Honors Program which looks great. This school is one of his top choices, so we are very anxious to hear. He is waiting to hear from 3 more schools on April 1st.</p>
<p>I recently received an alumni letter indicating that Denison will receive between 5,100 and 5,500 applications this year. Like one poster mentions, Denison is becoming a hot school.</p>
<p>Haha. I got rejected today. It's a little bit discouraging, but I got accepted to NYU, so I don't feel too bad about it. And I like some other schools that I applied to better, anyways.</p>
<p>I got in yesterday</p>
<p>Hey, I got in RD a couple of weeks ago - was that a bit early? Got a Heritage Scholarship as well, dunno if thats a really big honor (hope it is!).</p>
<p>BTW - anyone know how Dension rates as far as the Sciences are concerned (Biology in particular)? How are the facilities, professors, its reputation, etc...?</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Denison has an excellent biology department, and its science facilities are outstanding. In 2003, it opened the Samson Talbot Hall of Biological Science, an amazing 60,000-square foot building. Denisons biology department web site is quite informative (Denison home page/Academics/
Academic Programs/Biology/Program Information), and you (krux) may find it helpful.</p>
<p>The new science buildings are really, really nice.</p>
<p>I think Denison is very much in the same league of Wooster, Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan University...at least as far as Ohio LACs are concerned. </p>
<p>To say that it is becoming a hot school is to say that you don't realize that Denison is simpy using its endowment funds to increase the number of its applicants by various methods, which you can find out about from the admissions director if you really care to know. </p>
<p>Comparing it to schools of similar location, reputation and size (especially) I do have to mention that its endowment is twice the endowment of Ohio Wesleyan University and Wooster, which will help attracting higher-score students simply by giving them more aid (yield certainly goes up if you increase merit aid, holding everything else constant) but only in the short run. Now, whether that's a sustainable strategy in the long-run will be determined by how generously and aggressively Denison decides to use its endowment funds to attract students. </p>
<p>The other thing that distinguishes Denison from its peer institutions, especially Oberlin, Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan is that it seems to be far more conservative:</p>
<p>In addition to being generous with merit aid, Denison attracts many good students to its campus for the following reasons.</p>
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<li>Ranked among the top 50 national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report</li>
<li>Excellent faculty (Many have national reputations in their fields; each year faculty members win national awards for teaching excellence. Petersons)</li>
<li>Best athletics program in the NCAC (Denison has won seven consecutive NCAC All-Sports Trophies. Also worth noting: its tennis coach was named ITA National Womens Coach of the Year last year and this year Denisons mens lacrosse coach was named as an assistant coach for the U.S. national lacrosse team).
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<li>Numerous Denison students win fellowship awards each year (Denison has had 34 NCAA Postgraduate Scholars, placing it fourth among NCAA Division III institutions in the number of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships earned. In the last 10 years, it has produced 19 Fulbright Scholarship winners. Just recently, two students won Goldwater Foundation Scholarships and one student won a Truman Scholarship).<br></li>
</ul></li>
<li>Possesses one of the most beautiful campuses in the Midwest. In fact, Loren Pope, author of Colleges that Change Peoples Lives, comments, "There is no prettier campus in the country."</li>
<li>Denisons alumni network is very strong as evidenced by the schools large endowment. </li>
<li>Its new science facilities are very impressive.</li>
<li>Its Honors Program is well regarded.</li>
<li>In its 2003 edition, Princeton Review gave Denison a No. 1 ranking in "Class discussion encouraged."</li>
</ul>
<p>Thats a short list. Denisons admissions director could probably provide more.</p>
<p>**I don't know how that answers anything in my email...but I'll try to provide a short list of how your reasons compare with the other Ohio Five Schools. </p>
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<li>Ranked among the top 50 national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report</li>
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<p>*Okay, that's the most solid reason to pick a college. With the exception of Wooster and OWU, you can say the same thing for the other Ohio Five schools.</p>
<ul>
<li>Excellent faculty (Many have national reputations in their fields; each year faculty members win national awards for teaching excellence. Petersons)</li>
</ul>
<p>*You can say the same thing for just about any LAC, let alone the other Ohio Five schools.</p>
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<li>Best athletics program in the NCAC (Denison has won seven consecutive NCAC All-Sports Trophies. Also worth noting: its tennis coach was named ITA National Womens Coach of the Year last year and this year Denisons mens lacrosse coach was named as an assistant coach for the U.S. national lacrosse team). </li>
</ul>
<p>*Same here.</p>
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<li>Numerous Denison students win fellowship awards each year (Denison has had 34 NCAA Postgraduate Scholars, placing it fourth among NCAA Division III institutions in the number of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships earned. In the last 10 years, it has produced 19 Fulbright Scholarship winners. Just recently, two students won Goldwater Foundation Scholarships and one student won a Truman Scholarship). </li>
</ul>
<p>*No Oberlin, Kenyon or Ohio Wesleyan student has ever won a scholarship :)</p>
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<li>Possesses one of the most beautiful campuses in the Midwest. In fact, Loren Pope, author of Colleges that Change Peoples Lives, comments, "There is no prettier campus in the country."</li>
</ul>
<p>*That's true. The campus is perhaps just as beautiful as the one of Oberlin, Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan.</p>
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<li>Denisons alumni network is very strong as evidenced by the schools large endowment. </li>
</ul>
<p>*Okay. The endowment is not because of a strong alumni network, but because of a good performance of Denison's investment portfolio.</p>
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<li>Its new science facilities are very impressive.</li>
</ul>
<p>*Oberlin and Ohio Wesleyan just improved their science centers, too. </p>
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<li><p>Its Honors Program is well regarded.</p></li>
<li><p>In its 2003 edition, Princeton Review gave Denison a No. 1 ranking in "Class discussion encouraged."</p></li>
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<p>*I think all of the Ohio Five Schools are ranked highly in one category or another. Oberlin in "Most gay-accepting school". Ohio Wesleyan in "students who never stop studying". Wooster for its independent research capstone.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, Denison is an excellent school. Just trying to say that it is not getting hot for any reason that you won't find at Oberlin, Kenyon, Wooster or Ohio Wesleyan.</p>
<p>Well, you know what has impressed me most about Denison so far? They have already shown themselves to be a school that cares about individual students, with a faculty that knows each kid as an individual. That may not be important to all kids - but it is one reason kids choose a LAC and it is nice when their perception matched reality. Not that I have a ton of experience (because I don't really) but I'm just saying what we've experienced so far.</p>
<p>all LACs are like that: the smaller they are, the more individual attention a student gets (of course faculty/student ratio determines that).</p>