<p>I just came back from visiting and I had a great time. I didn't stay overnight because I was coerced into greeting some relatives around here but I stayed for a majority of the day. Everyone is so nice, friendly, and helpful. I sat in an french class and the profesor brought in chocolate croissants and we watched the original beauty and the beast and the disney version. these two students took us on a very in-depth tour of carleton and it was great. the food was pretty good too. I wished i stayed overnight though</p>
<p>The class wasn't Comparative Political Regimes, was it? That would be just too weird.</p>
<p>I don't know what the title of the class was, but there were discussion groups about American intervention in Somalia.</p>
<p>WOW! i had a great time at the admit days! i came in thinking i would surely go to Middlebury, but now i am seriously thinking Carleton over Midd. holy crap. i got to stay thursday and friday nights with two baseball players (the coach was really nice) at Watson Hall. All the prospies i met were really cool, as were the students. oh yeah.. and i randomly saw my friend from elementary school, also a prospie. what are the odds?</p>
<p>for shadowofanenigma, the class was intermediate french and hollandhallway yeah, i wish i opted for an overnight instead of smelly relatives. what did you do all night? ; )</p>
<p>My daughter plans to visit April 20-22. Reassuring to hear such good reports from those who visited.
Did anyone get a feel for how well Carleton grads do in getting into high quality professional schools?</p>
<p>neverthere: The baccalaureate origins of PhD's are detailed in these links and CC has had several threads discuss this.</p>
<p><a href="http://web.centre.edu/ir/student/OverallBaccOrigins.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://web.centre.edu/ir/student/OverallBaccOrigins.pdf</a>
<a href="http://peacock.adm.oberlin.edu/phd/1994-2003.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://peacock.adm.oberlin.edu/phd/1994-2003.pdf</a></p>
<p>For rates at professional schools such as law and med, I can only say that President Oden has reported very high percentages at his parent weekend talks and at graduation ceremonies.</p>
<p>Thank you, Maize&Blue. The PhD stats are quite impressive. I had read similar reports in this nice paper
<a href="http://www.collegenews.org/prebuilt/daedalus/cech_article.pdf%5B/url%5D">www.collegenews.org/prebuilt/daedalus/cech_article.pdf</a></p>
<p>But I have read/ heard that many other top LACs have put together effeorts to "promote" their college and grads to top professional schools(med, law, business). Pomona and Swarthmore are examples. This means they spend money and employ people to keep track of their placement records, make sure the top programs stay connected to them and are invited to the college for lectures and fairs. Does Carleton have anthing along these lines?
It is ironic thet my daughter liked Carleton over others for its laid-back feel, but here is the parent worrying that Carleton is not pushy enough! Cet la vie..</p>
<p>neverthere: Thanks for the link. I had read that article some time back, but now that my soph D has declared a chemistry major it was informative to reread it now. I suspect the Career Center may be the ones to contact initially to ask your questions. It's too bad they don't post the stats on their website. I found these advising sites for pre-law and pre-med.
<a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/advising/information/special/premed/%5B/url%5D">http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/advising/information/special/premed/</a>
<a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/premed/faculty/%5B/url%5D">http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/premed/faculty/</a>
<a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/advising/information/special/law/%5B/url%5D">http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/advising/information/special/law/</a>
I'm glad your daughter found the atmosphere to her liking, but it really is an intense environment with a semester in a trimester. Oden has said that in the academic world, Carleton is considered just a hair behind Swarthmore in the category of "students who work hard". Your mileage may vary, but the kids do put everything they have into work and play. They are very goal oriented without the cutthroat competitiveness. Perhaps that's what your D sensed as laid back.</p>
<p>I think one of Carleton's weaknesses is that it doesn't do an especially great job of trying to help grads get jobs or into professional schools, though I think the professors and departments do a great job as far as grad school is concerned. Of course, Carleton students are generally sort of the motivated self-starter type and end up doing very well anyway. And for something like law school, there's really only so much the school can do; students generally figure out that it's primarily about their grades and LSAT on their own, though Carleton did invite the deans of admissions from Penn, UVa and Michigan to hold a discussion.<br>
Carleton will tell prospective students about some six-year law program with Columbia, but I'm at CLS now and can tell you that nobody has done this in at least three years. Obviously, though, that doesn't stop anybody from actually going there.</p>
<p>I can tell you that McKinsey Consulting and Goldman Sachs recruiters recognize the school as academically excellent. I once sat through an excercise (2000) where thousands of resumes had to be pruned down into the group that would be interviewed..and the Carleton name was one of the prestige schools (there were other criteria in the sorting filters than just the school candidate went to) whose graduates warranted a futher look provided grades, some internships and a logical major.</p>