Carleton for recruited athlete

[Anonymous]

Anyone have direct experience? Culture, social life, career placement. DC is bright and motivated but not intensely intellectual, artsy, activist etc. Obviously the school is great academically but will it be a good experience?

[Anonymous]

How could we possibly know the best fit for YOUR kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How could we possibly know the best fit for YOUR kid?

What I’m trying to say, delicately, is that he is “normal” and wondering if that means he will be miserable as it might at many LACs.

[Anonymous]

Probably don’t send your kid somewhere he wouldn’t otherwise consider to play d3 athletics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How could we possibly know the best fit for YOUR kid?

What I’m trying to say, delicately, is that he is “normal” and wondering if that means he will be miserable as it might at many LACs.

Normal as opposed to what? It's always laughable to hear parents say that about their kids, like everyone else's kids are some kind of weird anomaly, get over yourself. If your kid is miserable it will be because they chose to go to an expensive tiny school in a town in the middle of nowhere with terrible weather. At least they'll be able to commiserate with the St. Olaf crowd at one of the 3 pizza places in Northfield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably don’t send your kid somewhere he wouldn’t otherwise consider to play d3 athletics.

It's a highly regarded school, and I'm trying to learn more about it to see if the fit works. I don't see what the big deal is.

[Anonymous]

I have a kid at Carleton. It’s a wonderful school and community and I’d describe my non-athlete kid is very “normal” but if your kid is not driven by any kind of intellectual interest and is just there to get a credential, it’s not going to be his place.

[Anonymous]

My friend (we worked together in DC at a national sec agency) moved back and was the career counselor there. She loved it, and the students seem pretty great. Northfield is cute and the Twin Cities are only an hour away. I would definitely send my DC there is offered a good scholarship.

[Anonymous]

It's very woke. I'm honestly not sure if it's like Kenyon and some of the NESCACs where the athletes have their own bro culture that exists as kind of a separate entity within the larger woke campus culture. It's possible that schools like Carlton and Grinnell are so woke that it overpowers any efforts by the athletes to establish a more mainstream subculture. If I had an athlete kid looking at Carlton, I would implore him to spend a weekend there, preferably staying with a current student-athlete, so he could get a better read on the campus vibe.

[Anonymous]

Northfield to MSP is only a 45 minute drive. That’s like driving from Rockville to Dulles non rush hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's very woke. I'm honestly not sure if it's like Kenyon and some of the NESCACs where the athletes have their own bro culture that exists as kind of a separate entity within the larger woke campus culture. It's possible that schools like Carlton and Grinnell are so woke that it overpowers any efforts by the athletes to establish a more mainstream subculture. If I had an athlete kid looking at Carlton, I would implore him to spend a weekend there, preferably staying with a current student-athlete, so he could get a better read on the campus vibe.

You sure have a lot of opinions about a school whose name you don’t even know how to spell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's very woke. I'm honestly not sure if it's like Kenyon and some of the NESCACs where the athletes have their own bro culture that exists as kind of a separate entity within the larger woke campus culture. It's possible that schools like Carlton and Grinnell are so woke that it overpowers any efforts by the athletes to establish a more mainstream subculture. If I had an athlete kid looking at Carlton, I would implore him to spend a weekend there, preferably staying with a current student-athlete, so he could get a better read on the campus vibe.

You sure have a lot of opinions about a school whose name you don’t even know how to spell.

Autocorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's very woke. I'm honestly not sure if it's like Kenyon and some of the NESCACs where the athletes have their own bro culture that exists as kind of a separate entity within the larger woke campus culture. It's possible that schools like Carlton and Grinnell are so woke that it overpowers any efforts by the athletes to establish a more mainstream subculture. If I had an athlete kid looking at Carlton, I would implore him to spend a weekend there, preferably staying with a current student-athlete, so he could get a better read on the campus vibe.

You sure have a lot of opinions about a school whose name you don’t even know how to spell.

Also, I admitted in the first line of my post that I don't know a lot about the school other than that it's woke, which I've never heard anyone dispute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's very woke. I'm honestly not sure if it's like Kenyon and some of the NESCACs where the athletes have their own bro culture that exists as kind of a separate entity within the larger woke campus culture. It's possible that schools like Carlton and Grinnell are so woke that it overpowers any efforts by the athletes to establish a more mainstream subculture. If I had an athlete kid looking at Carlton, I would implore him to spend a weekend there, preferably staying with a current student-athlete, so he could get a better read on the campus vibe.

You sure have a lot of opinions about a school whose name you don’t even know how to spell.

Also, I admitted in the first line of my post that I don't know a lot about the school other than that it's woke, which I've never heard anyone dispute.

Anyone who uses woke in the perorative clearly neither understands the origins of the word, nor how they come across to others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have direct experience? Culture, social life, career placement. DC is bright and motivated but not intensely intellectual, artsy, activist etc. Obviously the school is great academically but will it be a good experience?

Better to compare it to your child's other options--if there are any other schools showing interest.