Carleton and Macalester: How similar?

gloworm
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:02:17 +0000

Not a frequent poster here, but I sure did visit lots of schools w/D, including these three.

All are great. D liked the urban setting of Mac, but not the campus, didn’t apply. Loved both Carleton and St. Olaf, accepted to both.

Mac has the traditional Semester, St. Olaf has 4-1-4, and a student must participate in 2 of the 1 terms, at least. Carleton is as the previous poster said.

D narrowed her choices and St. Olaf only lost out because D wanted warmer weather. She had enough winter ,and in the end she wanted a city. She wound up at Trinity in SA.