<p>I am going to be in year 12 and was researching on colleges in the US for next year and I was pretty interested in Carleton College. </p>
<p>Ever since I started reading Harry Potter I always wanted to go to a place like Hogwarts. I was wondering if Carleton college has any Harry Potterish aspects in it?</p>
<p>I do realize this is a very immature way of selecting a college and to avoid assuming I am a complete looser, please note that (though it is rather important to me) this not my ultimate criteria for selecting a college :)</p>
<p>My son thought U Chicago was very “Hogwarts” like, perhaps because of the Gothic Architecture. Or maybe because their slogan (tongue in cheek) is “Where Fun Goes to Die.”</p>
<p>About the only similarities I can think of - </p>
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<li> The Arb could stand in for the Hogwarts forest.</li>
<li> Hogsmeade and Northfield are probably about the same size.</li>
<li> No quidditch, but broomball is quite popular.</li>
<li> The Carleton colors (maize and blue) are similar to the colors of Ravenclaw.</li>
<li> Carleton holds an annual Midwinter Ball (and yes, students do dress up).</li>
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<p>Of all the colleges I’ve visited, Sewanee comes the closest to Hogwarts.</p>
<p>My older daughter fell in love with Kenyon when we visited, at least in part because the dining hall bears a striking resemblence to the Harry Potter dining hall. Much of the campus has a gothic feel to it–to us, anyway.</p>
<p>I think that the atmosphere and architectural design of a college should be a factor in choosing a college where, after all, you will be living for the next four years. That said, Carleton did not strike me as Harry Potter like in design or feel. I have visited twice and daughter is going there in the fall. I did visit Kenyon and I agree that it has that more brooding, Gothic feel. Carleton is more open and cheery. Kenyon’s dining room is very Potteresque. Alas, as of a year ago, we heard the food was not very good. If you are really interested in a Potter experience, why not college in England?</p>
<p>janiney–My younger daughter will also be attending Carleton in the fall. Her father went with her to visit, so I haven’t seen it yet other than in pictures.</p>
<p>Oh…janineny Carleton’s food has not been very appealing to my son. He lived in an interest house this year where they cooked their own food, and was happier. But there is always Malt-o-meal!</p>
<p>My son described St. Olaf as looking like a “Scandinavian Hogwarts” - really liked the architecture. Carleton, not so much.
Or how about Middlebury? I heard that they like Harry Potter enough there to play Quidditch. The fastest runner on campus plays the part of the Golden Snitch.</p>
<p>Ooh, I love quidditch (play it on my PC :D). I’d want a Hogwarts like school to except I am already in college. As for England, I just can’t stand hardcore Brits (or their accents).</p>
<p>one of my friends choose st. andrews because it reminded her of hogwarts. unfortunately carleton doesnt really have that same gothic feel (although apperantly there is the occasional druid ceremony in the arb)</p>
<p>Universities in the United States are too young—even those that are made to look old don’t feel ancient—to really resemble Hogwarts. In my view, Hogwarts represents a hodgepodge of different elements from Oxford, Cambridge, and St Andrews. The scale of architecture and much of the d</p>
