Visiting Grinnell in the summer?

M_s_Mom
Mon, 04 May 2009 12:55:38 +0000

Grinnell is definitely open to visitors in the summer. We went in July. They get too few visitors over the summer to make it worth scheduling formal information sessions so just call up and schedule a tour. We (and the one other family visiting) each had our own tour guides who not only did the usual ‘dog and pony’ but answered every possible question we had. S also interviewd (for over an hour) with someone on the admissions staff-he emerged beaming because it had been so much fun-and then I was invited to sit down with S and the interviewer so they could answer any questions one-on-one. What I especially appreciated was the frank assessment of S’s chances of receiving a merit scholarship. You can’t get this kind of individual attention at many schools, so remoteness has its advantages. S announced on the way home that this was the place he wanted to be.

If you stay at The Carriage House (which we recommend), its across the street diagonally from the admissions office, and everything is within walking distance.