Kenyon College Description:
Admissions Data (2008):
- Percent of Applicants Admitted: 31%
- Test Scores -- 25th / 75th Percentile
- SAT Critical Reading: 630 / 730
- SAT Math: 610 / 700
- SAT Writing: 630 / 720
- ACT Composite: 28 / 32
- ACT English: 28 / 34
- ACT Math: 26 / 32
Enrollment (2007):
- Total Enrollment: 1,662 (all undergraduate)
- Gender Breakdown: 48% Male / 52% Female
- 100% Full-time
Costs (2008 - 09):
- Tuition and Fees: $40,240
- Books: $1,300
- Room and Board: $6,590
- Other Expenses: $1,130
- Total Cost: $49,260
Kenyon College Financial Aid (2006 - 07):
- Percentage of Students Receiving Aid: 46%
- Percentage of Students Receiving Types of Aid
- Federal Grants: 7%
- State / Local Grants: 21%
- Institutional Grants: 46%
- Loans: 44%
- Average Amount of Aid
- Federal Grants: $2,535
- State / Local Grants: $1,320
- Institutional Grants: $21,649
- Loans: $3,498
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Kenyon College Mission Statement:
"Over the 185 years of its life, Kenyon College has developed a distinctive identity and has sought a special purpose among institutions of higher learning. Kenyon is an academic institution. The virtue of the academic mode is that it deals not with private and particular truths, but with the general and the universal. It enables one to escape the limits of private experience and the tyranny of the present moment. But to assert the primacy of the academic is not to deny the value of experience or of other ways of knowing. Kenyon's academic purpose will permeate all that the College does, but the definition of the academic will be open to recurrent questioning.
Kenyon's larger purposes as a liberal arts institution derive from those expressed centuries ago in Plato's academy, although our disciplines and modes of inquiry differ from those of that first "liberal arts college." We have altered our curriculum deliberately in answer to changes in the world, as an organism responds to its environment without losing its identity. Kenyon's founder gave a special American character to his academy by joining its life to the wilderness frontier. His Kenyon was to afford its students a higher sense of their own humanity and to inspire them to work with others to make a society that would nourish a better humankind. To that end, and as an important educational value in itself, Kenyon maintains a deep commitment to diversity. Kenyon today strives to persuade its students to those same purposes."
