<p>Stunning options- at least to me they are- all for Fiction Writing/English/Humanities.</p>
<p>Baltimore vs Palo Alto vs Gambier, Ohio.</p>
<p>University vs University vs College.</p>
<p>Quality of the programs?- Opinions, experiences, facts?</p>
<p>Feel of the student body culture, the school personalities?</p>
<p>Positives, negatives?</p>
<p>Looking for insights here and there to add to my own research.</p>
<p>These are all excellent English/writing programs on beautiful campuses. For me, four years at Gambier/Kenyon would have felt confining. It’s a small school in a small town. The students I met there, though, seem to love it. JHU offers the advantages of a large university–lots of visiting lecturers, great film series, grad students, greater diversity–while, for humanities majors, offering a pretty intimate experience, because most of the undergraduate students focus on the sciences or premed. Baltimore is a lot of fun, and close to DC as well. Stanford has by far the largest English department of the three, with a big PhD program as well as a popular undergraduate major, and a large humanities faculty. It’s in a suburban location but not too far on the train from San Francisco.</p>
<p>Thank you Jingle. It didn’t occur to me to look up the relative sizes of the programs at Stanford vs JHU. I think I may have to give an advantage to Stanford over JHU- both are expensive but JHU just enough more expensive to make it noticeable. Kenyon isn’t cheap either but with an award to offset it, it is my best financial choice. I could pull off the universities with some extra effort on my part- I am not talking loans. I think we are all getting the message to avoid those if at all possible. </p>
<p>I am stunned, a bit frozen in place, by this decision due in less then a week!</p>