Here’s the situation D is accepted at both and has visited both. Along with numerous others but these are the 2 left standing. She is a good, not great student. Top 10%, lots of AP’s 1400 SAT. Not sure of major but looking at pol sci/bio, maybe a double major.
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Grinnell merit aid plus savings no debt
Kenyon need based aid end result around 15k debt
Culture
Kenyon lots of people like me
Grinnell will challenge me more, might be who I will want to be
Academics
Kenyon good, interesting classes people work reasonably hard
Grinnell people work harder, classes will be more challenging
Any insights?
Someone posted rankings by major of different schools form USNWR (I think), but I couldn’t find a way to sort for that info except at a grad school level. My gut says these are similar schools and no debt is better than debt.