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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

Our son graduated from Carleton recently. He loved it. Said the profs were passionate and engaging and the students intelligent, friendly, and unpretentious. There was no discernible divide between athletes and non-athletes. He had several friends at Chicago and didn’t notice a difference in “wokeness” when visiting their campus or vice versa. He is very pro free speech, fwiw. [/quote]

How is it for kids who want to go into business - consulting, banking etc ?[/quote]

Carleton is full of kids who want to make a difference in the world beyond just making money. If your kids dream is to go work at Goldman Sachs, they don’t belong there. If they want to start a green fund that provides micro finance loans to small farmers in developing countries, sure.

My DC is incredibly happy there but the ethos is to do some good in the world whatever professional path they take. [/quote]

The way to do the most good in the world is to be as productive as possible and chase the bag. Read Atlas Shrugged.[/quote]

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