<p>Limner, at the risk of being overly nosey, can ask you if your son went to the 4/12-4/14 Accepted Students Days? Because if so, I met him there and he would know who I am :)</p>
<p>Yay for Hindoo's daughter and Limner's son! Welcome to the Carleton family!</p>
<p>My daughter used to complain whenever the temperature dipped below 72 - one winter term at Carleton cured her of that, and she complained about how hot it was here during spring break!</p>
<p>Went to send the Carleton reply slip this weekend but came back with it. Of all the place i have been accepted Carleton was clearly my first choice but now I'm really nervous because it just struck me yesterday Carleton is very very far away from home (asia), I have never been to the US, I have never seen snow in my whole life, and I only have a vague idea of what student life is like there and what i do know came from brochures and the carleton website. Now i'm really confused but will be taking a decission soon.</p>
<p>That's totally normal to question your choice. After you send the reply to your first choice, you will still wonder if you made the right decision. It must be hard trying to get a feeling for a school from so far away. Perhaps you could email the school and ask to speak to a student who came from abroad to see what they think?</p>
<p>Good advice, texastaximom. ... </p>
<p>C'est Moi--One can never be absolutely certain that he or she is making the absolute right decision in something so important as college selection--probably because there IS no perfect choice. Though my daughter would argue that; she sees Carleton as her academic Eden. ... </p>
<p>So, as texastaximom advised, talk to Carleton (the international admissions rep would be a good start), email with students there, and do whatever you can to raise your comfort level. At some point soon you'll just have to take the plunge and have faith that it'll all work out. </p>
<p>Carleton's a great school and there will be some exceptionally bright, interesting kids from all over the world in the incoming freshman class (my daughter being one of them!). It's very possible that if you end up at Carleton as a member of the class of 2011, a year from now you won't be able to imagine yourself anywhere else.</p>
<p>advantagious, he did attend that weekend (the first time he'd seen Carleton). He's never been on CC (I'm the designated admissions researcher in our family), but I'll mention you to him. </p>
<p>C'est Moi, Hindoo is right, there is no one "right" school choice. She's also right about how questioning one's decision is normal (and bound to happen). My S just went through a period where he realized that going far away to school (something he's been wanting to do) was a reality, and it was a bit of a shock. College is no longer an abstraction but a reality--and it can be scary. That doesn't mean it's not the thing to do (or that it <em>is</em> the thiing to do). How's that for being helpful? :)</p>