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I visited Elizabethtown on a whim, mostly because my grandmother had mentioned it to me a few times. I hadn't heard much about the school before touring it. I knew it was a small, liberal arts college, which is my main criteria for all of the schools that I tour. Elizabethtown blew me away in a million different ways.

I have toured a lot of small colleges, but few of them have the obvious community feel that Elizabethtown has. The campus feels like one that I could be at home at. Coming from an extremely small school, it's very important to me that the college I attend is a place where I don't feel like I'm lost in the sea of everyone else. A smaller amount of students and the programs Elizabethtown has in place would allow me to feel valued

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