Wellesley, Whitman, or Grinnell?

snorky
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:07:31 +0000

Congratulations to your daughter for earning so many wonderful choices. You sound really lukewarm about Grinnell – I get the feeling that you/your daughter would prefer Wellesley for sure, or Whitman over Grinnell if money weren’t part of the equation. Wellesley is a really fine school - with distance and money being the major drawbacks. For Whitman, yes 30% greek is big, but that leaves 70% who don’t join. Greek campuses tend to have a lot of drinking, so it could be that it’s more “underground” than at Grinnell. My daughter is not the least bit counter culture and neither is her roommate. It is true that the student body tends to have a lot of quirky kids, – here comes a gross generalization – the men more so than the women.