Divine Mack '29 is attending Guilford College in the fall and he can’t wait. No, really – he can’t wait.

“If I could start tomorrow I’d sign the papers today,” he says. “I love everything about Guilford.”

The love story started last year when a Guilford student showed up at Divine’s high school in High Point, N.C. Divine still remembers everything about the day. “The way he spoke, the way he talked about the College, the way he made it clear how everyone was valued,” says Divine. “It brought me this special feeling. I remember thinking, ‘are there more people like this at Guilford?’ I remember thinking, ‘There’s something about this College that I want to learn more about.’”

After visiting Guilford, here’s what Divine discovered. Guilford's intimate student-faculty ratio of 12:1 allows faculty to get to know their students on a first-name basis and appreciate each student’s learning habits. Divine says Guilford feels less like a university and more like “a community where students learn not just from faculty but each other.”

“People are going to know me for who I am and not just my student ID,” he says. “I’m not going to be another number at Guilford. I’m going to be Divine.”

That’s important to Divine, coming from a large high school setting. He wants to major in Chemistry and work in a lab as a quality control analyst. He met with Chemistry Professor Rob Whitnell and other faculty members on a recent Saturday touring the College.

“It’s easy to get lost in a high school and fall through the cracks,” he says. “I don’t get that feeling at Guilford. I feel like at any point if I’m struggling I can go to my teachers, go to my counselors – heck, go to my classmates – and talk to them as a person. That’s such a comfortable feeling to have.”