<p>topcat:
Glad to hear you had a good trip! Have you considered Case Western? zthey actaully have a Pre-Professional Scholars Program he might be interested in. I don't know what their deadlines are like. My son applied there Early Action, and got in. Where are you from, or where are you looking?</p>
<p>Weenie, Denison enjoys an excellent reputation among the prep schools. It gets a number of highly qualified applicants, and due to their high quality in just about every area, it has a talented and well prepared group of students. In the midwest and Pittsburgh, Kenyon and Denison are considered the top LACs. If it were located in the NE, it would be right up there I am sure. One reason it gets such a group of kids is that it aggresively uses its endowment to provide merit awards to the type of students it wants and is also generous with financial aid. I am extremely impressed with that whole group of Ohio LACs--Wooster, Ohio Wesleyan, Wittenburg, Kenyon, and Denison. Congratulations to your son for his acceptance and his scholarship. That is one school I would give heavy consideration.</p>
<p>Thanks jamimom:
I'm hoping he goes there. I think he will. He wants to hear from all his schools and then decide - understandable. It's hard having an "undecided" (major) though. Part of me worries that he'll wander through and come out still not having any clue what to do from there. I think, however, that part of the reason he has been insistent on a small school is precisely because he is hoping for some direction, and I think he's right about that. A big secret in our house - I've already made hotel reservations near Denison for parents' weekend!!! Don't tell my son anybody! Too funny, ha?</p>
<p>My son has a teacher and her husband who graduated from Denison. One is a film major and the other a history major. They spoke so highly of their experience my son wanted to attend their writers workshop 2 summers ago and loved it. This has been one of his top choices since and this is a child who could go anywhere. He loves the campus and the professors and students he has worked with. It is a challenging school and appears to have an excellant honors program. My son was accepted into the honors program and is in the Top 100 Scholars competition. We aren't sure of the amount of scholarship yet but have heard great things about the competition. They have so many strong areas of study I'm not sure anyone could go wrong here.</p>
<p>weenie - are you going to case western? There are some things about it that I like the sound of - but was a little concerned that it was too much of a technical school. Or that the non-business, non-engineering people were treated like 2nd class citizens.</p>
<p>topcat:
I post for my son, who is unlikely to be going to Case. I have a younger son who is much more of a technical type - and this was the only school on our tours that he realy liked - so that might tell you something!</p>
<p>I don't know how my younger would like being in an environment with techies - had the same concerns about Case as Carnegie Mellon. You're either an engineer or an artist. He's into business (for now!) Is the Case campus attractive?</p>
<p>Yes, I thought it was attractive. As I recall, it is sort of on 2 sides of a road (due to the fact that it used to be 2 different schools). One side seemed more science/tech oriented, and the other side more liberal arts. The business building is very cool - it was designed by Frank Gehry.The library was the fanciest we saw on tours. Parking is mostly in underground lots, due to it being in the city. The dorms were sort of 70's looking structures, but they were nice inside and spacious. Also, they were sort of all together (where the undergrads live.) I know they are trying to build upperclassman housing all together someplace. It was very hot the day we visited and I was really dragging, but I did take a few photos. If you private message me and send me your email address I would be happy to send them to you. Better pictures are on the Case web site at <a href="http://www.case.edu/visit/tours/full/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.case.edu/visit/tours/full/index.html</a>. Click on the individual buildings and you can see them.</p>