<p>I’ll second Davidson, which seems evenly split between starving-artist hippies and trust fund babies from the Northeast/Florida.</p>
<p>Do keep in mind the difference between Davidson as post #21 describes it (I don’t know whether it’s true or not, mind) and a school where “politically moderate” is a majority (Centre, for instance, is true to its name). Being split between two extremes, like Hamilton, can be middle of the road; but that middle feels very different than a statistically equivalent middle composed of people standing in the middle rather than people being pushed into each other.</p>
<p>keilex, can you tell us a little more about Hamilton?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Disclaimer: this is purely hearsay. Hamilton has a “light” side and “dark” side of campus; stereotypically, light = preppy and dark = artsy.</p>
<p>i’ll suggest all colleges have a ‘light’ side and a ‘dark’ side. don’t go by hearsay, keep an open mind, and visit any school you’re interested in. the grads i know from Hamilton (2) fit neither side, IMHO, and their talk of the school suggests the majority is quite ‘middle.’</p>
<p>if you want to know more about Hamilton, or any school, ask those who attend or graduated, and always remember to take their feedback with a grain of salt;-) feed your intuition with experience, not someone else’s point of view.</p>
<p>^Most colleges do not have physical light and dark sides of campus the way Hamilton does due to having absorbed a women’s college (whose name escapes me). The distinction MIGHT encourage similar divisions of the student body, and by hearsay many students “joke” about light vs. dark.</p>
<p>Keilex, ha!</p>
<p>the dark side of Hamilton refers to the other side of campus that was added during the last few decades and was formerly a girls college. It has newer buildings, especially compared to Hamilton’s older campus buildings.</p>
<p>^Exactly. But I’ve also heard students say that the physical juxtaposition mirrors the student body to a certain extent.</p>
<p>Keilex, yes, I have heard that also</p>
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<p>Why would you think that? Grinnell’s extremely liberal, for being in the middle of nowhere. Macalester’s pretty liberal. So is Carleton.</p>