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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are overstating Grinnell’s isolation. It’s located in a rural community, but so are many SLACs - and this one has several streets of commercial activity, and a Wal-Mart, and about 20 non-chain restaurants, so it actually offers more than many (in part because Grinnell is an ag and manufacturing site and not just a ‘college town’). The town of Grinnell is virtually atop the main east-west interstate across Iowa, and it’s midway between Des Moines (45 minutes away, a surprisingly sophisticated state capital and one of the fastest growing metro areas in the Midwest, and significantly larger than Portland ME, Madison, Savannah or New Haven) and Iowa City (60 minutes away), a classic lively Big Ten university town. You could find many SLACs on the east coast that are in fact more ‘isolated’ (the primary difference between Grinnell’s ‘isolation’ and that of many colleges on the east coast is that when Grinnell kids go to a nearby city for fun, they drive past 45-60 minutes of flat cornfields rather than past suburban tracts homes, but honestly to a 20 year old that’s really not much different). I mean, Grinnell isn’t Bethesda or McLean, but I assume most posters here understand that’s not necessarily what four years of college is supposed to be about. Oh, and the average SAT score of Iowa high school students is among the ten highest in the country, and higher than in VA, MD and DC, so some commenters might want to dial down their anti-rural anti-midwestern snobbery just a bit.[/quote] The town gun emporium, somewhat far left campus climate, far right surrounding area, and loose state gun laws can give some people pause. Grinnell had the least desirable location of the many LACs we visited, though imo that shouldn’t in itself rule out the school. Be skeptical of those disparaging the school itself, which is fantastic, but also be skeptical of claims the location isn’t reason for concern. Research and decide for yourselves. [/quote]
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