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

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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:49:43 +0000

alexkaye:

I’m afraid your Connecticut parochialism is showing. While I’d guess you’ve never been out to this part of the midwest, I’m surprised you’re so confused by eastern geography also.

While Middlebury has a lovely campus in a really lovely rural Vermont location, no one who’s ever visited would consider suggesting that IT is anything but a school in “the middle of nowhere and COLD.”

Wesleyan and Carleton are a different breed. Both sit at the edges of much larger towns. While Carleton’s surroundings beyond town borders are quite rural, Minneapolis/St. Paul are only about 45 minutes away. Wesleyan has a more suburban feel and is just about a half hour to New Haven - Boston and NY (“proximity”?) are both actually more than 100 miles away.

bingle:

The acceptance rate for this freshman class was just published in The Carletonian last week - 27%. No comment about yield. As far as I know, no one was accepted off the wait list again last year.

starbucks08:

In answer to your question about application numbers, please allow me this analogy:
Carleton is to top northeastern LACs what U Chicago is to the Ivy League.
Both Carleton and Chicago recruit great students with great stats but in both cases self-selection and bicoastal parochialism lead to total applicant numbers that are smaller. I agree with woa and dietcokewithlime that Chicago is probably the closest university cousin to Carleton with a long-recognized significant overlap in applicants.