<p>bingle: We reacted strongly to architecture/setting of schools too, and I think it may have been a mistake. By some sort of grace S got a gut feeling of where he belonged, thank goodness. I don’t think in the end that the town, buildings make a college as much as the people do.</p>
<p>Of course, some people are more sensitive to setting than others.</p>
<p>I went to college in oodles of mud (new campus, lots of building sites), and I don’t remember that at all. I remember the people.</p>
<p>I have no horse here in Carleton vs. Grinnell or any of the other subjects of debate. As you say, they’re both great schools.</p>