how exactly difficult is it to get into carleton? really...................

dietcokewithlime
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:23:20 +0000

I think, if anything, it’s harder to get into Carleton as an international student applying for financial aid than as a US citizen. There are lots of int’l students who just want to go to the best college in the US that will give them financial aid (and yes, I have heard from a couple of int’l students at Carleton that this is precisely why they applied, totally different story than all the “quirky” marketing that draws US applicants). Since Carleton offers some financial aid to int’l students like the Starr Scholarship, I imagine Carleton gets a lot of applications from int’l students who are blanket-applying to every top university/LAC that offers financial aid, and so the competition for the relatively few funded int’l student spots is tight.

An int’l student who isn’t applying for financial aid might be a different story.