Spotlight on Earlham College
Friday January 9, 2009
Earlham College
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Understandably, many prospective students are concerned about the high cost of private colleges in today's difficult financial climate. Earlham, however, has a healthy endowment for a school of under 1,400 students, and they offer significant grant-based financial aid to most of their students.
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My daughter just finished her first semester at Earlham. It is everything she hoped it would be and more. Her interests are in International Studies and Japanese. She has made many friends from other countries including a number of Japanese exchange students. Her roommate is from Japan. The student population is an incredible combination of diversity. The financial aid program helps to bring in a broad range of bright students. The professors are very accessible and show a sincere interest in her. The campus is lovely. Richmond is a small city, however the school offers a large repertoire of events and activities that keep her interested in staying on campus almost all of the time. Coming from Texas, she is a long way from home. The orientation program quickly facilitated a feeling of acceptance and within 2-3 days she really felt at home and gained the confidence that this was going to work out. Her classes were very stimulating and focused more on learning than on testing. She found her professors to be experts in their field and very engaging. Earlham has a wonderful summer Explore-a-College program for high school students that offers a large variety of 2 week classes. Participation in this program following her junior year gave her a wonderful perspective on college life and helped her evaluate what she wanted out of a college. Although it seems premature to give this school such high marks, we are sold that it is the perfect place for her. Loren Pope’s Colleges That Change Lives is a wonderful resource for finding schools that are looking for a different type of student and offering an education that goes well beyond the text books. Earlham is appropriately selected to be included in this list of exceptional higher education choices.