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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Carleton is more like Grinnell - really super liberal and intense academics (but in a cool midwestern way, bien sur)

[b]St. Olaf is friendlier, no less smart but less intense about it, fewer east coasters[/b]

They have a really different vibe -your kid will like one or the other, but prob not both. [/quote]

Depends on how you define "no less smart."  The stats for entering students suggest otherwise.

There's a reason why Carleton is ranked 9th and St Olaf 62nd.[/quote]

Grades and standardized test scores are not direct assessments of intelligence. When are DCUMers going to get that. 
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So true. Especially when people with money hire tutors and coaches so their already enriched kids can score even higher. People game the tests. Everyone knows that, but then they pretend that test scores somehow show that their kid is smarter than the next kid.

On top of that, test scores and grades of the incoming freshmen tell us nothing about what the educational experience will be like once students get there. That’s what people should be paying attention to. The rankings lay absolutely no attention to what kids actually do for 4 years once they get on campus because there’s no way to boil that down into a statistic that you can run through a computer.

The whole idea of “ranking” schools is completely ridiculous. People with too much testosterone treat college selection like they treat March Madness.[/quote]

Ok.

Carleton is still a better school.[/quote]

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