IS THE LOCATION REALLY THAT BAD

Midwestmomofboys
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:20:10 +0000

Oops, I thought I had posted this, but hadn’t, so there is some repetition with what @SDOnCC said – who has a student there. We have visited it 3 times, with 2 students, and it is my son’s strong first choice right now, as a junior.

The town of Grinnell has what you need – an excellent small grocery, with organic food, great wine and beer, prepared foods if you want a change from dining hall; there is also a great old fashioned bakery and a movie theater playing first run movies, plus a great bike shop. There is a pretty park, a band shell where what seems like the whole town was headed for an evening concert when we visited in the summer. The homes around campus are lovely, 100 year old homes, some faculty, some student houses, some B&Bs etc.

Grinnell campus is gorgeous, the facilities are beautiful, the new and old blend together, and from what we have heard, the college makes sure there is plenty to do on campus since it is in a small town with not much else going on.

Further out from town, close to the highway, is Walmart.

Iowa City is just under an hour away, a major state public university, with 40,000 students. Des Moines is a different direction.

Its not Chicago, but many LACs are in smaller communities, like Kenyon (Gambier, Ohio makes Grinnell, Iowa look like a bustling metropolis), Oberlin, Denison.