Acceptance Letters: Parents, college and letting go

Posted in February 2014

The Waiting

By J.D. Rothman on February 1, 2014

Once college applications are completed, students will find themselves in the midst of a lull period, during which high school seniors experience an interminable limbo while still feeling pressure to keep up their grades. So as a parent, what do you do?

Small Town America, Big Town Kenyon

By Elizabeth Weinstein on February 1, 2014

Kenyon is not a small town. Gambier isn’t even a small town. This may come as a surprise to city or suburban parents who think they are sending their children to the quintessential New England-style school in a small town in Ohio. But Kenyon (and Gambier) are not Main Street, America, and you won’t find Homer Price’s donut-making machine in the shop on the corner with the accompanying 25-cent cup of coffee.