Kenyon college - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png Kenyon college - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 It May be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! https://greatcollegeadvice.com/it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=9712 Although the January 1st application deadlines have passed, there are still many other colleges to which you can apply.

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]]> Sure the January 1st application deadlines for many colleges have passed, but fear not, there are still many, many colleges to which you can still apply.  In fact, there are a surprising number of colleges that have March 1st deadlines.

In this first of a series of three blogs, we’ll look at colleges which all have January 15th deadlines.

  • American University
  • Babson
  • Bard
  • Beloit (note: early action is 3 days earlier- Jan 12)
  • Bentley
  • Brandeis
  • Bryn Mawr
  • Bucknell
  • Case Western
  • Chapman
  • Clark University
  • Clarkson University
  • Colgate
  • UC Boulder
  • Colorado College
  • University of Dallas
  • Denison University
  • University of Denver
  • DePaul (Chicago)
  • Dickinson College
  • Emory
  • Fordham
  • Franklin & Marshall
  • Furman
  • Georgia Tech
  • Hampshire College
  • Haverford
  • McGill
  • Kenyon College
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Mt. Holyoke
  • UNH Chapel Hill
  • Oberlin
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic (RPI)
  • Rhodes College
  • University of Richmond
  • University of San Diego (USD)
  • University of San Francisco (USF)
  • Seattle University
  • Skidmore College
  • Texas A & M
  • Tulane University
  • Union College
  • University of Vermont
  • Virginia Tech
  • Wellesley
  • Whitman
  • Wittenberg

And if you’re feeling ambitious, you might even make the January 10th deadline for USC or the January 11th deadline for NYU!
Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York

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]]> Kenyon College–Liberal Arts and Journalism (Without the Journalism) https://greatcollegeadvice.com/kenyon-college-liberal-arts-and-journalism-without-the-journalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kenyon-college-liberal-arts-and-journalism-without-the-journalism Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:04:20 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=8484 Should a student interested in a career in journalism pursue a Bachelors degree in journalism? Or pursue the liberal arts. Mark advocates the latter.

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]]> Mark recently visited Kenyon College in the tiny town of Gambier, Ohio. Kenyon is a liberal arts college widely known for its very fine writing program. Writing, obviously, is an important skill for a journalist to acquire and maintain. But is journalism school a better way to prepare for a career in journalism? Or would it be better, perhaps, to pursue a liberal arts degree?

Watch this short video…and see if it helps you reevaluate your interest in pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in journalism.

 

Mark Montgomery
Educational Consultant
You may prefer to read the transcript below.
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I’m here now on the campus of Kenyon College in the tiny town of Gambier, Ohio. It’s not that far from Columbus. Kenyon is really well known for – well, first of all, has an absolutely gorgeous campus. And when we came in we came in kind of the back way. And we came by the field house and this enormous Olympic size pool with towering windows. Absolutely gorgeous new facility, and new construction going on on campus. But aside from the environment, Kenyon is known for its writing program, creative writing is really big here, and writing across the curriculum is huge.

I bring this up because I just had a call the other day from my freshman year roommate from college. He is a reporter with one of the Time Warner outlets and he – I was asking him, I said, look, what about journalism, should students major in journalism today in the 21st century? And he took a pause for a minute, and he said, you know what, no, and here’s why. He explained to me that in his division, Time Warner had four interns this summer. And one of them was from a well known liberal arts college and three of them were from the most prestigious journalism programs in America.

He said, hands down the person from the liberal arts college. The best writer really could do anything and did not need heavy editing. Did not need a lot of guidance in terms of how to write and analyze and communicate. Whereas the journalism majors, poor writers, even though they were going to some of the best journalism universities in America.

If you really want to be a good journalist you have to write, you have to be able to do that communication. Now, does that mean that every student goes to journalism school is not a good writer? No. But journalism school doesn’t tend to focus on writing. It tends to focus on the practice of the craft of journalism, and what is the role of a journalist in society. Those are all very important things, but if you’re going to be a journalist, obviously, on a daily basis you are going to be writing.

So coming to a school like Kenyon getting a major in a liberal arts field, whether it’s the writing program or whether it’s economics or whether it’s government or history. If you’re going to be a journalist, having that broad background. Even if it’s in science, my gosh, they’re tons of journalism openings for science writers. So if you want to be a journalist, if you want to be somebody who’s communicating the world to the public. Then you have to learn how to communicate.

So there is every reason to go to a great school like Kenyon, or anywhere else where you can get very good training in how to be a writer because that is what a journalist does. So consider that. If you’re interested in journalism don’t neglect to think about a liberal arts education.

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