<p>I know this board is dead, but why not try? I am a white male. Not particularly athletic and not completely "outdoorsy". My main focus is academics. My GPA sucks for various, hard to explain circumstances (3.63W), but I got a 30 on my ACT (twice). </p>
<p>My passion is English, which will probably also be my major. I like to learn and talk about philosophical and academic concepts with other people who share my love for learning. I also don't drink/smoke. Ever.</p>
<p>My question is this: would I enjoy Sewanee? Is the English program good? What are the professors/students like? Is there an academic community there? I tend to do well socially with all kinds of people, but are there people like me?</p>
<p>Can you visit? If English is your thing, then it might be a great place for you. It’s a very strong program there (you can’t exempt freshman english…they want you to write their way). It is also now test optional, but (at least 2 years ago) they require a graded term paper/research paper if you don’t supply a test score. You will have to like the people there, because, while beautiful, the school is fairly isolated. The town is very small. D2 spent time there at scholarship competition and thought there were people there she would enjoy getting to know but I would say kind of priviledged atmosphere. You definitely need to visit to see if you’re a fit.</p>
<p>I appreciate the fast reply! I live about an hour away, so I plan to visit soon. Plus I go to an infamously priveledged high school (for a public school) and lived in a VERY wealthy area of Tennessee for a while, so wealthy and well-off people are the norm for me. A main concern of mine is whether me not having an affinity for camping (I enjoy activities like rock climbing, and the whole spelunking thing Sewanee offers sounds cool, I just don’t like overnight camping very much) or for alcohol will isolate me from the rest of the student body.</p>
<p>I like that you said the English program is strong and writing has always been a strength of mine (6 on the TCAP writing prompt, if that means anything to anyone here). However, I got a 4 on my AP English Literature and Composition test, will that count as a credit still?</p>
<p>I am an older white male, having graduated from Sewanee in the class of 1959. This board is not quite dead. I loved Sewanee, and I have had family members attending there since the 1920s and friends there ever since I went there as a freshman. The English program is hard to beat. (My great-nephew, an English major at Sewanee, graduated a few years ago.) Please take a look at the Sewanee Review, which I think is the oldest literary journal in continuous publication in the U.S. There is a wonderful natural setting (13,000 acres), which is what attracts many students to Sewanee, but not nearly a majority, I think. There is a lively party scene, but I know quite a few current students who do not join in that aspect of Sewanee life. Please do visit!</p>
<p>As an English major at the University of the South I feel like I am a true scholar in english literature. Compared to my friends at other prestigious schools (including Vanderbilt, UNC, Yale, and Princeton) I believe I have the best foundation for English litnerature, but also the best understanding the brevity of the literature and how it continues to shape society. </p>
<p>As I continue to mold my writing abilities I have knowledge of the greatest literature known to man: The Romantics (Wordsworth, Blake), Shakespeare, The American revolutionaries (Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne) and much more. Sewanee is such a special place and if English is YOUR thing then there is no better place. Our English department in one of the best in the country.</p>
<p>The school is filled with Englishy and Philosphical everything. The place would be perfect for you. That Tennessee Williams dude, well he basically gave our school a ton of the Domain, so if that says anything, we are very much an English devoted school. Nevertheless, we have great Humanities and sciences here, but English is by far one of our most regarded programs nationally.</p>