Any Experience with Grinnell?

[Anonymous]

DS has it on the short list. He's aware of the rural location and that doesn't seem to scare him off I'm concerned about the lack of 'name recognition' on the East Coast but maybe that's misguided on my part. Of course, the goal is for him to have a great education... He would love to eventually apply to med school so that's another reason I'm concerned about the profile of the school. DS is decent student, 3.8 unweighted, lots of honors and AP, 34 ACT, 2 varsity letters (football and wrestling), Its Academic team, Model UN and he was selected as the school rep to the Hugh O'Brian Youth leadership (HOBY) his sophomore year. Any thoughts about how he would fit at the school, or other info would be appreciated.

[Anonymous]

It's a great school. Extremely crunchy/granola.

[Anonymous]

I went to Grinnell and I very rarely run across people who haven't heard of it here on the east coast. If they're the sort of people who are asking about colleges, Grinnell is by no means an unknown.

I loved my time there. I found it rigorous across all disciplines, although I gravitated more towards the humanities.

[Anonymous]

Great, great school.

I was at Northwestern when Tammy Zywicki dropped her brother off then departed for Grinnell. She never made it and for years, until the invention of cellphones, knew to hide in a cornfield if my car broke down on a rural location.

[Anonymous]

For med school, it's not particularly important where you do undergrad. The goal should be to minimize debt and get a good GPA. In fact, many of the smaller liberal arts colleges boast med-school acceptance rates in the 90%s.

[Anonymous]

My cousin and her husband went to Grinnell. She was her HS valedictorian and both she and her husband are crazy off the charts bright. They both loved their time there as did their close friends. Strong points for them were small class sizes and very generous financial aid and scholarship packages. Agree with pp about high profile name recognition on the east coast in particular and more generally among those familiar with great smaller schools.

[Anonymous]

Super fun basketball games. That's helpful, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For med school, it's not particularly important where you do undergrad. The goal should be to minimize debt and get a good GPA. In fact, many of the smaller liberal arts colleges boast med-school acceptance rates in the 90%s.

this.

UMBC has a great track record of getting kids to top med schools.

Great GPA, Great MCATs, Small debt. these are the three keys.

To be honeset, it doesn't even matter where you go to med school.

Residency is whata counts

[Anonymous]

Thanks to all for the replies. Appreciate the info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For med school, it's not particularly important where you do undergrad. The goal should be to minimize debt and get a good GPA. In fact, many of the smaller liberal arts colleges boast med-school acceptance rates in the 90%s.

Absolutely this.

[Anonymous]

Surprisingly crime is an issue at Grinnell. According to the DOE report there was an unusually high number of sexual assaults in campus. This seems to be a pattern among rural SLACS.

[Anonymous]

Actually all colleges have an unusually high number of sexual assualts in campus. Shockingly enough, this happens when hormonal young adults are allowed to live together without parents for the first time in their life.

SLACs just tend to have a culture that makes it more socially acceptance to report the assaults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually all colleges have an unusually high number of sexual assualts in campus. Shockingly enough, this happens when hormonal young adults are allowed to live together without parents for the first time in their life.

SLACs just tend to have a culture that makes it more socially acceptance to report the assaults.

Do you have any support for that wild theory? Or are you just talking out of your rear?

[Anonymous]

Seems to keep coming up on lists of good schools. I lived in Iowa for several years. Don't know a lot about the school but I like the state and think Grinnell would be fine if it's a good fit.

[Anonymous]

Hard proof is nearly impossible to get, but this is hardly a "wild theory".

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/college-campus-sexualassaultsafetydatawhitehousegender.html

Sexual assault is reprehensible and a problem everywhere. Targeting the schools whose administration or culture isn't suppressing reports of sexual assault as much is just exacerbating the problem.

I'm not saying it's not a problem at Grinnell. It is a problem at Grinnell. But, it's a problem across every college campus everywhere and there simply is no way to know how bad the rape culture is by looking at reported rates of sexual assault.