<p>I ran across this site that sold inside accounts on college and it rated Carleton College as the ugliest campus in the nation (the people, not the actual campus). Does this have any truth whatsoever?</p>
<p>No - absolutely not. Carleton has a pretty campus.</p>
<p>fireflyscout, i think planitascack asks if the people in Carleton are ugly, which I doubt.</p>
<p>don’t believe everything you read. I would not call Carleton students the most beautiful pople in the world but something like that is rediculously subjective and changes every year as new students come… It is true that people don’t dress up as much here as at some other schools, but that is because many people here are less preppy and do not judge eachother as much only on appearance. Oh and one other thing to note is that c o l l e g e p r o w l e r where you read that from purposely played down the score. The guy from Carleton who rated actually gave the girls a C+, but the editor wanted to make it more contravercial and lowered it to D- or whatever it ended up being.</p>
<p>thanks, it was the first negative comment i’ve read about from carleton and i was just curious about how true these “inside scoops” are.</p>
<p>It’s true. Probably less so than it used to be, but yeah, a pretty unsightly bunch overall.</p>
<p>i don’t know about you guys, but the baseball players i stayed with knew some very attractive ladies…
how attractive? well, one was a cheerleader for the Vikings (and yes, she actually went to carleton)… there are hot people, you just may have to do some searching.</p>
<p>If you truly believe you are so good-looking that you won’t be matched in attractiveness by enough people of your preferred sex at Carleton, then don’t come here. Not because that would be true (it almost definitely isn’t, recruited athletes fill the attractiveness void as hollandhallway seems to have learned), but because no school wants jerks who act like they are too good for it.</p>
<p>I was there this past weekend. The people of both sexes physically looked like the wide range of people you would see anywhere. What was different though was the almost complete lack of affectation or conspicous consumption. No polo ponies, crocodiles, no designer names, very little make-up, jewelery, styled hair or attention to dressing to make a statement. Not uni sex nor grunge nor hippie. No one wore lime green and pink either. So it wasn’t as if folks in general were fashion ■■■■■■■, or color blind, or had nothing to wear. Everyone looked like they took a shower and washed their hair and brushed their teeth and got haircuts in deliberate fashion. Girls looked like girls and boys looked like boys. However I did find it all distinct and different from other campuses in these ways…
I was struck by how straightfoward and understated in dress and speech everyone was compared to the fifteen other colleges I have been on in the past year or so.
Students indicated that they didn’t talk about grades, scores or where someone came from. They did indicate they talked to each other a lot.
So my own two eyes would report that people looked fine and certainly healthy.
They looked and acted (quite remarkably compared to other schools) direct,plain, unadorned, natural in the very best sense of those words. So, yes, there was not as much eye candy as you would see elsewhere. It seemed a choice…not a necessity. I thought that was cool. OR quite Hot… if get my drift.</p>
<p>Anyone who would ask about the attractiveness of the student body DEFINITELY isn’t Carleton material. But, fortunately for you, there are many other colleges that will fit the bill–Miami of Ohio comes to mind first.</p>
<p>I think woc2’s description is very accurate. Carleton students are certainly not shallow or materialistic and don’t tend to judge people based on their clothes or appearance. But for whatever it’s worth, in terms of raw sex appeal, the Carleton student body scores pretty low. The most attractive people at Carleton might not even crack the top 1000 most attractive at a place like USC or Arizona State. Of course, it is kind of nice that the entire campus isn’t trying to act like they’re living in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue. </p>
<p>Allegedly, though, we did have one guy who modeled for Louis Vuitton.</p>
<p>woc2, you’re right on… even outside of the “jock circle,” i saw attractive students, and those that wouldn’t be considered attractive in a Miami of Ohio sense (as carlmom observed) had their respective uniqueness and appeal. “quirky” and “different” are pretty good descriptors. needless to say none of this discouraged me about wanting to attend carleton. everyone i met was great. go knights!</p>