Former high school students thrive at local college

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by Wes Keyser

  With only about 1,460 days in your high school career, it’s understandable to be indecisive when graduation day comes around about your potential after high school.

  It all boils down to a familiar question we’ve all heard at one point before: “What do you wanna be when you grow up?”

  Goshen College is a private liberal arts college right here in Goshen, Indiana. In fact, if you’re reading this right now and looking for a good exercise, chances are jogging to Goshen College would be an appropriate workout for this afternoon.

  Goshen enrolls about 1,000 students from 30 different state annually. Goshen has also been well-known for its innovative, life-changing study abroad program, which also has exceptional educational value.

  Though Mennonite students populate about 43% of campus, the school is known to be open to people of all religion, culture, and sexual orientation.

  Goshen sounds like a great place to be and a wonderful school to go to, but competitors like Huntington University and Bethel College still seem to be gaining significantly more followers than Goshen. What makes some students decide on Goshen College?

  “I got a really good scholarship offer, so that was a big part of that,” said Wendy Swallow, a nurse at Goshen High School who was educated through the Goshen College. “I transfered from another school. I was already working at the hospital, so being right across the street was really nice.”

  Most students with a GPA higher than 3.0 have a relatively good chance of getting into Goshen, and students who opt to get a GED instead of a standard diploma may even find themselves studying abroad one day at Goshen.

  For some, it had a lot to do with the learning and social atmosphere.  

  “I really liked having a liberal arts experience that I got to take lots of different types of class. Humanities, you know, art classes, things like that in addition to my science classes,” said Pete Biddle, a chemistry major from Goshen College and chemistry teacher here at GHS. “I also liked that it was a small enough campus that it felt like a community of people that I knew. It didn’t just feel like a big sea of faces I didn’t know. So those were I think two parts that differentiated Goshen College from any other school.”

   Biddle also had some insight for new coming GC students.

  “I would say get involved in things there, it’s really easy to get involved, whether it’s music or other things,” said Biddle. “It’s a small enough place that even if you aren’t a music major, you can get involved in music. I was in a few music ensembles, which was really fun, even though I wasn’t doing a major or minor in music.”

  Slots fill in fast, as in any other placement of higher education. Apply to the Goshen College today!

 

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