Carleton and Macalester: How similar?

advantagious
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:07:40 +0000

lspf, my father is an architect who has been working on St. Olaf’s new science building, which is set to open this fall, for about the past 10 years (really). So he has been to St. Olaf and Northfield literally hundreds of times at this point, and has spoken with many professors, students, and administrators at the school. His impression is that it is a very solid school, appropriate for a B+/A- student. From what he tells me and what I have read/heard elsewhere, I think St. Olaf is known to be a friendly place. It is not my impression that it is an especially conservative place–not as liberal as Carleton, perhaps (a school I applied and was admitted to), but certainly not right-wing, nor oppressively religious. It has a wonderful music program, especially choir, and is known to have good food. It is also known to be very blonde :). Very pleasant place, from all that I can tell (despite the cold Minnesota winters, of course!).