<p>"Quiet Hours"- These are specific time slots during the day in which people are to maintain silence while turning down their loud music n other noises in the hall...The enforcement of these hours depends upon the Resident Advisors actually..The wellness halls are generally quiet almost all the time!! No other freshman halls besides Mcbride n Mather have Carpeting n Air conditioning..And the Wellness for the freshmen lies in Mcbride!!</p>
<p>I just got the mail with a "thumb-up".Great! The FA is wonderful and I am really excited! Great! Now I am a Kenyon class of 2010 too! Yeah!</p>
<p>yeah!!! Congrats! You have MSN, Alex?</p>
<p>Which halls have the strongest bonds among the hall mates???</p>
<p>Yes. I have added you and you seems oof-line now.</p>
<p>"Which halls have the strongest bonds among the hall mates???"
I just read the instructions about the halls in the mail. They tend to introduce these objectively and no judgement. Maybe the wellness seems more positive.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED and a generous financial aid</p>
<p>Stats:
Fee Waiver Used?: Yes
SAT 1 (by section):630cr, 800m, 650w essay9 (2080)
SAT2 MATH2 780 PHY760 CHE720
TOEFL 627 TWE 4
ACT: N/A
GPA: N/A Unweighted
Rank: Top 5%
Junior courses: maths, physics & chemistry (accelerated), Chinese, English, Political Science, Geography or History, Art or Internet technique.</p>
<p>ECs listed on app: a little strange but different from my peers in China
Letters sent to worldwide leaders for applying Buddhism Spirit.
Animal Liberation.
Charity
A research paper about an unique issue on student organization administration.
Job/Work Experience: Teaching (English, Mind Mapping and Self-planning).
Essays (subject and responses): Common app essay was about a meaningful conservation about the responsibility between my foreign teacher and I. It's moving and strong because I really was deeply moved right then.
WHY Essay. Creative.
Teacher Recs:
The best from my foreign teacher. Ok from my maths teacher.
Counselor Rec: My counselor's covers most aspects, because he knows me well. One additional letter from a journalist about my EC-convincing.
Interview (in Hong Kong, by the Dean): My 1st interview and the best one. Ms. Britz was really warm and friendly, and I enjoyed it very much!
Hook (if any): Low Family Contribution. International student applying as a junior in Hainan, a relatively remote province of China.</p>
<p>Country: China
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public. Best one in Hainan. More than 30 guys in top 3 Chinese universities per year.
Ethnicity: China.
Gender: Male
Strengths/So, so/Weaknesses:
Strengths = Essays, interest level, recommendations, SAT2, SAT1(All of these cooperate well)
So,so = TOEFL, ECs (hard to judge. Strange but noticeable).<br>
Weaknesses = Background, low FC, low TWE</p>
<p>to say the least, it is irrelevant as to which hall tends to have more bonds and things like that because it depends more on you than anyone else. again, i am not a big fan of generalization (blip: wink!). if u come out here and want to make friends, rooms and halls will be no boundry to you, specially because Kenyon is so friendly ( oops, now did i make a generalization?)</p>
<p>Wohoo... I got a feeling that most Intels who were interviewed by Ms. Britz applied Early to Kenyon. Alex: Is that a main reason why you applied early to Kenyon? For me, that is! Because I came to realise how friendly Kenyon is from the interview and that is really where I want to go to.</p>
<p>Yes, it is. In fact it is the main reason motivating me to explore Kenyon more deeply and find my match with Kenyon. I REALLY admire her great effort in helping us to realize Kenyon much better.</p>
<p>Hey everyone... I'm a first-year student at Kenyon, and love it! Congratulations to all of you for being admitted to Kenyon... I heard it was a really competitive year for ED! It wasn't long ago that I was agonizing over which kind of dorm to choose. I was debating between Wellness and single-sex, and ultimately chose single sex because I wanted to live in the Freshman Quad. (Plus, wellness is in a "riot-proof" dorm that can get kind of confusing because it zig-zags). I live in the same dorm as Chochu, and couldn't be happier. Each floor seems to have a certain "character" to it, obviously determined by the students that live there. I love living in a single-sex wing, and in the Quad. But a lot of my good friends live in Wellness, and are equally as happy. The bottomline: everyone at Kenyon is unique, and thus every hall is composed of really different, intersting people. No matter where you live, you can't go wrong. If for some reason you are absolutely miserable where you are (and I haven't heard that this has happened), you can move second semester to a different dorm. Hope this helps... let me know if you have any other questions!</p>
<p>How did you hear it was a really competitive year for ED? </p>
<p>That makes me feel even more fortunate. :)</p>
<p>I have my sources ;) You should indeed feel very lucky... I know I did when I received my acceptance letter in March. I actually cried out of joy... which is quite out of character for me :)</p>
<p>Hello</p>
<p>I would like to give my personal opinion on wellness since i live there myself.
I think you really need to want to live in wellness. I didn't know what it was before getting in it and I feel like I would rather live on some other floor or dorm.</p>
<p>It just depends on your character. I think in a couple of years wellness is going to diappear because it tends to set apart a group of people. </p>
<p>I live a really random lifestyle. I mean i don't really know what i am gonna do that day since i have 3 jobs, I enjoy to party, I study and meet with a lot of people thus I don't really know what I am doing on a certain day, things just happen. Well for a person like me wellness is not a good place. People on wellness would almost require from you a schedule. </p>
<p>Again this is just my personal opinion, i don't really know if u can understand from these few lines, if u want to have a better idea of what i think just contact me on aim.</p>
<p>good luck guys with whatever u choose</p>
<p>When turqueyes said that this year's early decision application pool was really competitive, he/she was not joking.</p>
<p>I just got a letter from Kenyon today addressed to my mother, congratulating me and her for getting in because this year, the number of applications for early decision went up by MORE THAN TWENTY PERCENT. </p>
<p>Holy crap. I don't know how to feel right now.</p>
<p>^ My parents got the same letter! It was so sweet. It made me love Kenyon even more.</p>
<p>Wow!! I wonder whether the international students will be receiving it as well.. If yes, then it's gonna be super sweet!</p>
<p>International students should be getting the letter too: I remember getting a letter for my parents about what an achievement it is and stuff like that.</p>
<p>Oh yeah! I have just received that letter! Although my mum doesnt understand English, I erm.. tried my best to translate to her in Mandarin. Phew... it looks like my translation is really sucky but nevertheless, she got the message and she's really touched by the letter. We particularly like this: "Few, if any, of us get to where we are without assistance and encouragement. As parents of a new Kenyon student, you have earned hearty congratulations for helping .... accomplish those things that allowed him to reach his goal of attending Kenyon." I bet my mum is feeling pretty awesome right now.</p>
<p>Accepted ED2!!</p>
<p>See you guys soon!</p>
<p>Congrats VivaKC!! :p </p>
<p>Go party, have fun and celebrate in your achievement!!</p>