<p>Is anyone going to Knox for the Fall 06 Term for Frosh? Or am I the only one applying? If so...I like my odds ;)</p>
<p>My D has been considering this college very seriously.She has been admitted with nice $ merit money . It is one of my favorite colleges as well.
Did you get accepted? Did you visited?</p>
<p>I've applied there...or will apply. I sent my supplementary stuff but still have yet to finish their Supplement on Common App. :D</p>
<p>I visited Knox and had auditions for the Dance and Drama dept. It was a cool school...very small town...not so keen on that. But my mom likes it because I'll be safe.</p>
<p>Why aren't you so keen on it, julieann? </p>
<p>Yes, I finished my Supplement! Finally!</p>
<p>I do not like the town. I didn't feel like it had anything to offer besides the college itself. </p>
<p>Plus I saw this thing on Vh1 on it's show about internet videos, and there was one from Pioria (35 miles away,The nearest town with an airport).</p>
<p>The one thing I did like, besides the atmosphere of the school (small classes, focused learning) was this Italian place.</p>
<p>35 miles...I'm a little clueless how far away that is, even if I converted it into kilometers. I do better when distances are converted into time. :p</p>
<p>So you'd say Knox's location is somewhat rural? I had the impression it was between rural and suburban.</p>
<p>Galesburg is small town and there really nothing very exciting around, Chicago is 3 hours away. Peoria is about 1 hour I believe. Sure they have their symphony and few nice restaurants but there is reason why people generally have not heard about Galesburg. Anyway if you must have easy access to city life this college is not for you. Knox is great about bringing entertainment to them and social life is very active but not outside of school.</p>
<p>When we visited, my daughter and I thought the town of Galesburg was very cute, with a nice little downtown shopping area with restaurants within walking distance of campus. We thought it was nicer than many of the other small midwestern towns we'd stopped in, but it definitely fits in the "small town in the middle of nowhere" category. There is some mall type shopping on the outskirts of town as well. Knox is a long way from anywhere --- it took us about an hour from Peoria and it was 35 minutes or so to the Quad Cities (4 cities on the Iowa/Ill) border. Between Galesburg and the Quad Cities or Peoria, the landscape is an unbroken line of corn fields and hog farms and not much else, at least that we could see. We asked, but no one seemed to be able to tell us if there was any sort of public transportation to get you to Peoria or the Quad Cities, so I suspect you'd need a car -or a friend with one - if you want to get out of town once in a while. We drove around the Quad cities area (got lost!) and it looked nice, at least nicer than Peoria did, with bigger malls and some more urban areas. However, the Quad cities or Peoria are definitely not an urban area in the sense that Chicago or NY are. From Knox, it is probably a good three hour drive to Chicago and again, there is no public transport.</p>
<p>Knox is a great school, with much to recommend it, and the admissions people, students and faculty we met there were among the friendliest and most helpful of any college we visited (and we visited over 20!). The campus itself is fairly nice - flat and not a lot of trees so it feels very open, but some of the buildings obviously were a bit behind on maintenance (at least in our opinion). Many of the dorms (maybe all? I can't recall) were suite style, but nothing fancy --- your basic cinderblock walls in the one we saw. Huge common room with six bedrooms off of it and a private bath. My daughter thought the sound of trains (the tracks run close to the edge of campus) would drive her nuts, but I didn't think it was that bad. She sat in on a history class and an English class and the teachers were both fantastic and spent lots of time talking to her afterwards.</p>
<p>I agree with Linda about Knox not being the right school if you need easy access to a city. But if you're OK with small town life, Galesburg is quite nice and Knox would not be a bad choice at all.</p>
<p>I applied.</p>
<p>I'm glad I applied early action to Knox. They gave me one of the best merit offers of all of my safeties and I would be glad to attend.</p>
<p>Now I feel stupid not applying Early Action. (And like a procrastinating student.)</p>
<p>I'm so eager to find out. The intel admissions officer was really nice and wow, I was so psyched when I got the letter thankin' me for the SAT scores I sent, signed by an ACTUAL person.</p>
<p>My D got in EA as well and received nice merit aid. I believe intel officer is Mrs. Corine Anderson and she is wonderful person. There were only two colleges after visiting which my D had sparkles in her eyes and one of them is Knox/and my girl is very reserved practical person so sparks in the eyes go a long way ;)</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, lindalana. :) I only wish the Writing Scholarship was offered to internationals as well! :(</p>
<p>Yep, Mrs. Corine Andersen is the intel officer. I really loved the Knox chats they had for internationals. :) One of the rare schools to do that. (That I know of.)</p>
<p>I'm glad your daughter's eyes sparkled after visiting Knox. I really hope she gets into the other sparkled school, as well, though that might make choices for her harder!</p>
<p>Knox just announced they received gift of 10 mil $$ from old alumn who passed away recently. It is single biggest gift this school received.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update, lindalana. I read the article and wow...</p>
<p>If I had a lot of money I suppose, beyond giving it to relatives, I might make a scholarship or something for internationals who want to study in the US, UK, Canada or Australia, at any school. Kids need the money! :D And I might give some to each of the schools I've been to. All 8 of them so far plus my college plus hopeful graduate school!</p>
<p>OOoh, yay! Just received my official admissions email! (I've known since V-day I was accepted.) I'm in! Accepted! And with GREAT aid, too! <em>whistles</em> Me impressed. And the annual insurance rate of intels isn't that much so overall...seems like Knox is cheaper than the other two I've heard from so far! EEekkk! That makes it hard to decide. I can't wait until I get the package and drooool over it! Woohoo!! julieann, have you heard anything yet?</p>
<p>I havnt gotten my letter and i applied for early action...or so I thought...</p>
<p>(im really scared.)</p>
<p>I got my acceptance for RD about a month ago; I did the priority application though, so that's probably why you haven't heard yet, julieann. I got a decent merit scholarship, but haven't heard any specifics on need-based aid. If they are as generous as I've heard they are, I'll probably be going this fall :).</p>
<p>Julieann87 why don't you call or email to Knox? They are friendliest people to chat with and very helpful. Early action was due Dec1 and decisions should have been send long time ago.
Braves872 , Knox is starting to send their first fin aid offers in next 2 weeks, and I know it by talking to Mrs Jackson, director of fin aid at Knox, very charming and nice lady. My D is waiting for their letter as well, it will decide everything for her.
We recenly were at local reception Knox was giving, got to talk to president and his wife, alumni, admission people and bunch of prospective students.
President Rodger and his wife Ann unbelievable!
They are so warm, helpful, energetic and engrossed in Knox community. Rodger and Ann/ that is how they prefer to be called/ apparently met at Knox when they were students there. They often seen eating lunch with students and not pretentious at all. They both lawyers in the past. Pre law students have amazing opportunities there for future internships and contacts, not only because of president but also because of lots of alumni who went to high places to work.
I do not know how my kid will handle it if her fin aid letter wll not be affordable but I certainly will be devastated.</p>