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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only parents who think St Olaf and Carleton students are on the same page intellectually are those who know their kids would never get into Carleton.  Stop kidding yourselves.  Yes, St Olaf is a good school -- but it ain't in Carleton's league and never will be.    [/quote]

So rude. Do better.

--Carleton grad[/quote]

And you know I'm right.

-- Not a Carleton grad[/quote]

And for some sad reason, that seems to haunt you...[/quote]

LOL, hardly.  I had a kid who was torn between going to Carleton for full tuition or Grinnell with a generous merit aid package.  It really came down to the wire before the kid decided to go with Grinnell, which proved to be a great decision both from a "fit" and practical standpoint.  The kid actually preferred Grinnell from the very beginning and the decision would have been an easier one had the kid not been a little too caught up in the rankings at the time.

St Olaf wasn't on the radar.[/quote]

One nice thing about bring connected to one of the Northfield colleges is that there is really very little rivalry between them. It's kind of annoying to have people unconnected to the two come into the thread and be combative and argumentative about the possible differences between the two. Maybe you could go pick some fights about Grinnell vs. some of its neighrbors. [/quote]

Interesting to hear you say that considering that, at least according to Wikipedia, Carleton considers St Olaf to be its biggest athletic rival.  [/quote]

I have a student currently at Carleton.  It's a friendly sports rivalry.  I've never heard my kid say any negative thing about St. Olaf students.  The invite each other to some campus events (like concerts or get out the vote kind of stuff) and similar campus groups/clubs follow each other on social media and that kind of thing.  Lots of Oles and Carls have siblings at the other school or parents/family who attended.  It's annoying that posters here are so obsessed with rankings because that is not really the ethos of either of those schools.  The kids all know that St. Olaf is less selective, but so what?  It's still a terrific school in and of itself so who cares if the students there missed like 5 more questions on the SAT or got a couple Bs instead of As in high school.  [/quote]

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