<p>Its in Wooster, Ohio....is it prestigious? a good school? I have an 18,000 scholarship to go there so I just wanted to see if anyone has heard of it or goes there?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I know my 2nd cousin goes there. Thats about all I know about it though</p>
<p>A family in our small Georgia town sent their daughter there - she loved it. Then their son went, then another kid from our church (it's a Presbyterian college and we're Presbyterians). There have been four or five kids from our town to go there now. It's small and off the beaten track, but they all love it. Here's the type of place it is - on the day when a senior's Senior Project is approved and the Registrar's Office is informed, the Registrar gives the student a Tootsie Roll. Those Tootsie Rolls are the most treasured keepsakes on campus. My kids all want to go to major universities in urban areas, but I'd have thrived at Wooster.</p>
<p>I've heard of it. The colleges I think everyone should have heard of are found on my lists in the thread </p>
<p>ranked 71 by USWN.
it's an ok school
there are better liberal arts colleges in Ohio. Try Oberlin or Denison</p>
<p>hey, i was accepted as well! college of wooster is known for their independent study... it ranks number 2 in the nation for their senior capstone project (number 1 is princeton). it is featured in loren pope's "colleges that change lives" ... it has a pretty campus, and overlap schools include allegheny, kenyon, earlham, denison, among others. cow's mascot is a fighting scot! they are big on bagpipes and traditions. its a quirky, nice school. i think you should definitely visit.</p>
<p>You should definitely visit. As JohnC said, there are better in OH. But there are also many worse. Try to see if you like it.</p>
<p>Kenyon and Oberlin are considered to be the top LAC schools in Ohio. However Wooster is very well regarded in the academic community. You may want to visit this website for some additional insight -- </p>
<p><a href="http://ctcl.com%5B/url%5D">http://ctcl.com</a></p>
<p>I'd argue that academically Wooster is as strong as Denison. One of the most amazing facts about Wooster -- More children of parents who teach in the GLAC attend Wooster then any other school in the consortium.</p>
<p>I can't say that I've heard of it, but I'm sure there are plenty of colleges and university's that I haven't heard of before. I guess that's not much help though.</p>
<p>Wooster is not very well-known. D visited as part of her mid-West tour (Dennison, Kenyon, Wooster, Case and Oberlin). </p>
<p>She liked Dennison and Wooster the least: Wooster didn't offer the same breath or variety of courses as "stronger" LAC, but she and a number of her friends rec'd generous merit awards (but all attended higher-ranked schs); Dennison too much of a frat scene.</p>
<p>I found Wooster, like many other schs to be perfectly acceptable - - but D, like many of her age-peers, would pref a sch w/ more name-recognition. </p>
<p>Agree w/ lasecat that Wooster is probab on par w/ </p>
<p>-Earlham (lovely Quaker sch in Indiana, also give a fair amount of merit $, but lesser awards than Wooster)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Allegheny (middle-of-nowhere PA; I think Wooster is more diverse) </p></li>
<li><p>Dennison (frats)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>But Kenyon is in another league entirely (strong academics, great sports - - especially the swim team, diverse).</p>
<p>Wooster is a CTCL recommended school.</p>
<p>Having grown up in Ohio. lived in NYC and now in the Southeast, I’d say Wooster is not well known outside of Ohio. Definitley not popular in the South but it is academically strong. My brother graduated from Wooster. He thought it was too small and too quirky for him but has done fine since graduation and accepted to medical shool. New College was totally foreign to me until this year. It is better known in Florida. If you are going for name recognition, which is not a good reason for choosing the best fit, neither school has it. New College seems more unstructured and less traditional than Wooster. Wooster however is in a rural area. Very rural-- which may be tough on some folks like myself who like urban/surburban campuses. Both have strong independent study.</p>
<p>I don’t believe that I’ve heard of it.</p>
<p>only on CC 
lol.</p>
<p>I don’t believe the OP is looking anymore. The original post is two years old.</p>