<p>I imagine that Carleton has its Hugh Grant contingent, as well. Not sure I’d call that a meaningful observation.</p>
<p>Something important to me in a college was that the students enjoy and engage in intellectual conversation outside the classroom. I asked about it at every school and got a wide range of impressively candid answers. Scripps students jumped on the opportunity to tell me that it was commonplace, and such was my experience.</p>
<p>That said, one of my very favorite things about Scripps was that you could read Cosmo and Condorcet in the same evening and not be judged for either (I distinctly recall a first year conversation at snack when a friend started drawing connections between Sex and the City–which, incidentally, I had never seen–and Foucault). Students were well-rounded, had diverse interests, and were unpretentious. </p>
<p>I can only assume it’s the “unpretentious” part of the equation that might create confusion. Personally, I thought it was a fantastic quality. I loved having the freedom to have either intellectual or totally goofy conversation and not have anyone roll their eyes at me one way or the other.</p>
<p>ETA: By saying that Scripps is unpretentious, I definitely don’t mean to imply otherwise about Carleton. Just clarifying.</p>