Yes, it’s in a tiny corn-farming hamlet. But Grinnell is as cosmopolitan as any school, with 1,500 students from all 50 states and 55 countries. Average SAT scores hover around 1350, and famous alumni include Intel cofounder Robert Noyce and jazz great Herbie Hancock. Grinnell has brawn, too—its basketball team won the Midwest Conference championship in 2001 and 2003. And Grinnell encourages a broad range of undergraduate research. Senior Holly Maness, a 2003 Goldwater scholar, has already been published in prestigious journals for her astrophysics research on nebulae.
But it’s not all lab life; Grinnell hosts plays, concerts and on-campus movies—all free. And the new dorms are great. It isn’t cheap: total tab for 2003-04 will run $31,060. Grinnell is among the fewer than 40 colleges—all of them top schools—that still offer need-blind admissions, and most students receive some form of financial aid. No wonder applications are up 10 percent.
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Carleton got "most fun-loving." Pfft. "We love fun! We have a lot of frisbees! Hahahahaha! I'm going to town in my 4Runner to drink smoothies and shop at J. Crew (Just kidding John. Enjoy it, bra.)!"
No one here likes Carleton. I think they're bitter because they didn't get accepted there. I, however, find myself in the unique position of not having applied there in the first place, but only because I knew I had no chance of getting accepted; even if I had, there is no way I could have afforded it. I'll still pretend, though, that I have some sort of unholy grudge against them, because that's how it's done at Grinnell.
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Go 'neers!
-Todd
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