<p>AwakeandReady,</p>
<p>I got into Grinnell and Kenyon also and am making the same choice. What are your reasons for preferring Grinnell?</p>
<p>Anyone else have any pros/cons regarding Grinnell versus Kenyon? THANKS!</p>
<p>Accepted from AZ</p>
<p>Well I personally LOVED grinnell when i visited earlier this year.
The Campus is wonderful and so open.
The people there are very laid back and chill
The one class i visited the students were so into the class, it was a refreshing experience.
Kenyon sounds like a great place as well and i know someone that goes there.
It is a great place to go especially for an english major.
I am majoring in economics and or global/international relations or affairs and Grinnell i believe is much more international
The community at grinnell i personally believe is more diverse socially and economically. </p>
<p>A large reason i also would choose grinnell over kenyon is that my father is a paralegal and 3 of the 6 judges that he works with graduated from grinnell so he really really wants me to go there.
They are giving me less money than kenyon which is suprising cuase i heard they usually give amazing financial aid. But im hoping if i call grinnell and tell them how much Kenyon is giving to me that they might give me more. </p>
<p>thats my 2 cents...
let me know how your decision goes!</p>
<p>yeah, i visited the grinnell campus also, and what you said makes sense. very open and very diverse. seems like we got similar impressions. academically, i think kenyon is more aligned with my interests: Classics, English, natural sciences, etc. thanks for your response!</p>
<p>Yes, as much as I am loving my stay at Kenyon, I have to admit that Kenyon isn't that diverse a school. It is something everyone at Kenyon needs to work on... </p>
<p>However, people at Kenyon are really welcoming.</p>
<p>I got the sense that Kenyon was really trying to change and become more diverse on both of my visits. The admissions staff was basically doing everything they could to get us, people at the diversity days overnight visit, to apply. They want diversity but they are not willing to lower their academic standards to get it. It's very encouraging to see that Kenyon knows there are plenty of well qualified students from diverse ethnic backgrounds out there and they just need to encourage them to apply. I don't think it's any fault of admissions that Kenyon isn't diverse. It's tough for minority students like me to make the choice to leave a place where they are comfortable and go to a school that's 88% white with a surrounding community that's 96% white. I definitely had second thoughts about Kenyon when I sat down in Jake's, a restaurant in Mt. Vernon, just to be stared at for 20 minutes by the people around me. It's going to take a while for minorities to see Kenyon as a place where they are welcome, without having visited. I would have never known that I would be welcomed there without visiting the campus. Kenyon has the right idea having minority visit days and giving travel grants to those who couldn't visit otherwise.</p>
<p>I agree with what you are saying kamscnerd, but the fact that they accepted me, a white kid from about 10 miles away from campus, seems to be the opposite of that philosophy. Im not complaining, but i do hope that Kenyon is stepping up their efforts to make the campus more diverse. Oh, and i used to work at Jake's.</p>
<p>Of all the weeks for us to not have our usual mailperson! She always delivers things at the same time, and gets everything in our box. This week, mail has shown up in the evening, as if someone found it in the wrong box and moved it. I just met him at the door and he didn't have anything from Kenyon or the other schools that sent out last week. I worry he's freaking <em>lost</em> stuff. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I spoke with admissions today. All letters have been mailed on Monday...</p>
<p>i got an e-mail, and i am rejected (int student from turkey).
it's sad :)</p>
<p>I'm in WA state and haven't gotten ANYTHING. No e-mail, no letter. Humph.</p>