Why Do You Love Grinnell?

bethievt
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:26:50 +0000

I agree that the travel piece has been noticable and we travel all the time, so I had discounted it as an issue. Getting in and out of IA in the winter can be a royal pain. I would also second the diversity comment. My son now has friends from all over the country and all over the world. Grinnell works really hard (and spends a lot of $$) to get a very diverse group of kids to this tiny IA campus. Because my son’s roommate this year is in the Posse Program, he has benefitted from getting to know an incredible group of young people. Coming from our region of VT, he had gone to school with a very homogeneous bunch of kids, both ethnically and socio-economically.

As to the administration, when the president spoke to parents during orientation, he said that if we had a problem, we should feel free to call him! I never have, but it sure was a nice thing to hear.