College of Wooster - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png College of Wooster - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 College of Wooster – Changing Lives https://greatcollegeadvice.com/college-of-wooster-changing-lives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=college-of-wooster-changing-lives Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:38:25 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=8931 The College of Wooster is a fantastic liberal arts college in a small town in Ohio. It's a place that trains scholars--even students who are not scholars in high school. Wooster still requires a culminating research experience at the end of the four year Bachelors degree as a way to bring together everything one has learned.
Visiting a college is a good way to get a measure of the friendliness of a campus. Wooster gave me personalized attention when I arrived--even at 4:15 on a Friday afternoon in August.
If you want personalized attention and advice in choosing a college that is right for you, you might want to consult Montgomery Educational Consulting for some great college advice.

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]]> On a Friday afternoon in August, Mark visited the College of Wooster in Ohio, and was impressed by the personalized attention of the staff.
Watch this video to see how this Midwestern gem is changing lives of its students through its special liberal arts programs.

Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant 
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Here’s the transcript if you’d like to read:

I’m here on the Campus of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. And I could say that the College of Wooster is another one of those Mid-Western surprises. I’ve had on this trip where you walk into the campus and are really shocked by how really wonderful it is. I can’t say I was completely shocked because I knew from reputation that this is a really solid academic school. It’s kind of under the radar screen for a lot of people but a fantastic little liberal arts college in Ohio.

The thing I wanted to mention is the way I visit colleges. I tend not to go on canned admission tours. I tend to just show up kind of unannounced without a lot of fanfare or giving them prior warning of my visit. Then I walked into the Admissions Office today at 4:15, okay it closes at 5.

Immediately they said, let’s get you in touch with the person, what are the admissions reps and he sat down with me. He talked with me for about 40 minutes. He gave me kind of a personal tour of the campus as much as he could before he had to run off to pick up his wife. But really took a personalized – he gave me personal attention. And that’s really indicative of what the College of Wooster is all about spending the time and the energy and giving personal attention to each and every student.

Loren Pope put the College of Wooster in his book 40 Colleges that Changed Lives and, you know. It’s not surprising just my little experience here on an August day when the campus is pretty dead to walk into the Admissions Office and get a lot of personalized attention. We just met with the professor he was walking out of his office, stood there and talked with us for a few minutes, really impressive place.

Yes, the landscaping and the architecture yes that’s kind of a surprise to me. Because it really does kind of help to get a feel of the physical plant of a college. But really by reputation College of Wooster is one of those places that they take – maybe their students are diamonds in the rough not necessarily the tippy top academically. They will take students who have academic potential and they will mold them into scholars. That is really the hallmark of education here at Wooster, excellent education, someplace that is definitely off the radar screen for a lot of students but it shouldn’t be. This is a high value education and it deserves more attention.

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]]> It May Be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! Part 2 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college-part-2 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:26:09 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=9722 If you missed the January deadlines for college applications for the Class of 2016, don’t fret.  There are still many great colleges which have February deadlines.  Many names you will recognize. So if you like to procrastinate.  Or if you’ve suddenly found the cure for cancer and have a brilliant new essay topic.  You might […]

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]]> If you missed the January deadlines for college applications for the Class of 2016, don’t fret.  There are still many great colleges which have February deadlines.  Many names you will recognize.

So if you like to procrastinate.  Or if you’ve suddenly found the cure for cancer and have a brilliant new essay topic.  You might be interested in the following late deadlines for college.

Consider the following:
February 1st

  • Baylor
  • Arizona State
  • University of Connecticut
  • Cornell College
  • DePauw
  • Gettysburg
  • Goucher
  • Kalamazoo
  • Knox
  • Lewis & Clark
  • Miami University of Ohio
  • University of Michigan
  • Mills College
  • NC State
  • Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
  • St. Lawrence
  • Sweet Briar College
  • Trinity University (Texas)
  • Whittier College
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
  • Xavier University of Louisiana
And if you still haven’t gotten your act together by February 1st, consider the following February 15th deadlines:
  • February 15th
  • Allegheny
  • Case Western
  • Centre College
  • Drew
  • Earlham
  • Eugene Lang
  • Guilford
  • Howard University
  • Muhlenberg College
  • Rhode Island School of Design
  • Rollins
  • College of Wooster

Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York

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]]> Large vs. Small Colleges–Which Size Is Best For Me? https://greatcollegeadvice.com/large-vs-small-colleges-which-size-is-best-for-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=large-vs-small-colleges-which-size-is-best-for-me Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:02:40 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=8443 Which is better for you, large or small? To answer this question, think of going to a sumptuous buffet. How much can you eat? What delectable food will you start with?

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]]> Goldilocks had a problem with size.  She tried the large ones, she tried the small ones, and she eventually found the ones that were “just right.”
You can find the “just right” size, too, when it comes to colleges.  But you really need to think about what size means, especially when it comes to academics.  That is, after all, the most important consideration in choosing a college:  academics.  You are selecting a school where you can succeed academically.  So thinking about how size has an impact on your learning is super important.
Have a look at this quick video that I filmed at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant in Denver, Colorado
 
If you  prefer, you can read the transcript below.
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I’m here right now on the campus of Ohio State University which is in the heart of Columbus, Ohio.  And it’s one of the largest campuses in America.  Ohio is a state in contrast because there are so many colleges and universities, lots of large public universities, several large private universities, and then many small liberal arts colleges and religious affiliated colleges; a huge number of institutions.
What I want to talk about right now though is this idea of large versus small.  Obviously, this campus is just ginormous.  So many different opportunities, so many different programs with well over 50,000 undergraduates; there is something here for everyone.  When I’m trying to explain the difference between a small school and a large school many students come to me and they say I want a large school because I want to have all kinds of opportunities.  I want to have everything there.  I liken that to a buffet table.  Think of it like a buffet table that is miles and miles long; so many different opportunities, all of it tasty and delicious.  But you can’t even see the end of the table.  It’s such an enormous table.  It has, you know, Russian studies, East European languages, Neuroscience, nursing, business – just absolutely everything you could ever imagine at a place like this.  But when you’re an undergraduate you’re only going to be able to take advantage of a small part of that table.  It may be very tasty, all the way down to the end.  But you’re really going to have to have a strategy when you get there about which part of the table you are going to take advantage of, academically as well as socially.  I mean you’re; there are so many people and so many different opportunities you really have to figure out where are you going to start in this great big huge buffet table.
A small college like a Kenyon or an Otterbein or a College of Wooster.  Those colleges are certainly; everything on the table is as delicious and as tasty, but you can see the ends of the table.  You can see exactly what’s on there.  And if you know that you want to sample particular dishes from that table, well there’s everything you ever wanted there.  What’s the issue here?  Knowing what it is you want.  As you go to select a university, don’t think large versus small automatically.  Think what is it I want.  What are the things, what are the opportunities I want?  Yes, Ohio State has bazillions of opportunities, but which of those opportunities are most relevant to you.  If you’re saying well I want an English major, well certainly a place like Kenyon or Otterbein or anyplace else will have that major.  If you’re looking for something more specific maybe that’s when you need to be looking at Ohio State.  Or, if you want the bustle, the level of independence that is required at a place like Ohio State well then it could be perfect for you.
But don’t think first of what, of large versus small.  Think what do I want, what do I need, what are the things that I want to study, what is tasty to me, what do I find delectable.  And then go out and find that.  It may be on a huge table like the one at Ohio State or it might be at a smaller one like at the College of Wooster.  Know what you want, go look for it.
 

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