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[quote=Anonymous]On OP's original question...  DD (math/science/poli sci/music non-major) is at St Olaf and really loves it.  I went to college on the other bank of the Mighty Cannon River a few years ago & knew our version of St Olaf's fight song...  A lot of kids at Olaf could get in to Carleton but would never fit in and vice versa...  At Olaf, many double(+) majors in unrelated fields Math/Norwegian, Music/Physics, ...  Truly serious music, math, sciences, CS not so much.  Regarding social life, religion is taken seriously, largely a variety of Prod faiths, a number of students go to chapel, but, many don't.  Rising Freshman will be taking one fewer religion class (2).  Campus life revolves around music - including a number ensembles are primarily non-majors (Olaf just completed a new hockey rink- the students really wanted a concert hall...). I really like the central dining hall - a true meeting place everyone on campus goes to.  Students really seem to know faculty members and vice versa.  As someone mentioned on a different thread, campus is really beautiful with a consistent thread of human-scaled Norman Gothic even in modernist buildings.  As far as winters, they are hard, but there's nothing like cross-country skiing with crystal blue skies and sunshine glittering off inch-long needles of hoar frost... And a number of kids take winter interim off-campus... Many off-campus speakers and recruiting companies hit both colleges.

On a different topic, someone mentioned school financial situations.  I'd definitely watch that.  A number of mid-lower tier SLACs are going to have/are already in serious trouble & some on the CTCL list are among them.[/quote]

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