<p>Over what schools did you choose Carleton, and why?</p>
<p>I chose Carleton over Wesleyan, Oberlin, and Kenyon because I visited the school and fell in love with the beautiful campus, the insanely nice student body, the Faulkner class taught by Prof. Tisdale...</p>
<p>I can't wait to go there in the Fall again! :)</p>
<p>I chose Carleton over a full ride at GW, Babson, and Penn State.
Mostly because it just felt right when I went to visit for the first time. The people were nice and the facilities were just what I wanted. They seem to be sort of a mix that seems different from the very traditional feel of some of the schools in the northeast, but not too modern. To use the term which seem to be cliche in the description of Carleton, quirky.</p>
<p>My D chose Carleton (with no $$) over Northwestern, Grinnell, & Vanderbilt, among others, turning down a lot of money from some of those others.</p>
<p>I chose carleton over claremont mckenna, oberlin, williams, and U of Illinois. I love the campus, school, and (of course) the basketball team.</p>
<p>I chose Carleton over Colgate, Union, and Rutgers. In the end it came down to Colgate and Carleton and I went to both of their accepted student days. I liked them both but I chose Carleton because of how ridiculously friendly everyone was. It just felt like a better fit for me. My only major concern (outside the fact that the campus smelled like a farm the first night I was there) was that the people there seemed pretty weird, but I eventually realized that despite the extreme weirdness of a select few, most people at Carleton are cool and personable.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you all as you embark on the Carleton adventure. Evidently you are members of a very large class. My rising sophomore D went through room draw this week where she heard second hand (and I'm now third hand) that there are 540 freshmen coming in. Consequently, the selection of desirable rooms were less plentiful for these poor rising sophs than they had been in the past. Don't worry, freshman rooms are set aside in all but the upperclassmen-only dorms before the room draw.</p>
<p>My questions to D were 1) did Carleton intend to increase class size and 2) if not, did yield just take a gigantic leap? She had not heard or read any reference to #1 so is assuming that more kids responded positively to their admission offers than Carleton ever expected. Her class of 2008 is about 490, and other classes are a tad smaller for a total enrollment of just over 1900. Dean of Students said last year that they shoot for first year classes of around 500.</p>
<p>D will be a New Student Week Group Leader in the fall and will enthusiastically welcome you all!</p>
<p>Unless the there was a big change in the number of students admitted. It looks as if Carleton is becoming a "hot" school. Just like Wash U a few years ago.</p>
<p>I visited my son there this weekend. He said it was 80 degrees on accepted students weekend and many more took the spots than they anticipated.</p>
<p>The hidden LAC gem may be cloaked no longer. Where are they going to put these extra 40ish kids???? I suppose they can convert some of the decent sized singles to doubles. And in Watson the large rooms (corners) that are now doubles started off as triples years ago and I suppose could go back to that.</p>
<p>Those Watson corner rooms are indeed being made back into triples, so now there ought to be housing capacity for 24 freshmen or so over and above what there was last year.</p>
<p>wow. should i get those roommate forms back asap? is it first come first serve or something like that?</p>
<p>Nah, ResLife is deliberate in how they place people and I don't think how soon you turn in your housing preference form will affect that. Definitely take the form seriously and answer honestly (read: don't fill it out in front of your parents who will try to get you to ask for a substance free floor or single sex floor), rather than rush and fill it out to get it in ASAP. There should be space for all freshmen and the college will make sure of it, so just do your part to fill out the form carefully.</p>
<p>Yes, you should return the form before June 1.
However, I don't think it is first-come, first-served.</p>
<p>540 is higher than anticipated/desired, but is not unheard of. My year (2002) we had 535 students. ResLife always makes do. Sometimes lounges are converted to rooms, sometimes triples become doubles. Carleton guarantees housing for four years, and it always finds a way.</p>
<p>The college aims to have about 500 students in each new class. It has been this way for a few decades and has no plans to change (to decrease or increase enrollment).</p>
<p>As far as the roommate preference form: be honest, be specific. My freshman roommate is still one of my friends. Also, for clarification purposes, it should be noted that there are no longer single-sex floors for each sex. Ground Nourse is single-sex due to having but one bathroom, and it alternates sex by year.</p>
<p>Here's a tip, incomers: Mark "triple" or "no preference" on your roommate form. The triples (except the new conversions in Watson) are almost universally in better dorms than a lot of the doubles - you rule yourself out of getting stuck in Musser or Myers, and have a better chance at ending up in Nourse or Burton. </p>
<p>Though Watson mitigates a bit... still, those aren't shabby, and heck, I'm living in Watson next year. I pulled Burton freshman year with a triple, was way better than a lot of my friends ended up with - I'd recommend it.</p>
<p>Shoot, it's now June first, and I don't remember mailing in the rooming form; have to find it amid the piles of papers.</p>
<p>i've heard the class is 551. my brother is gonna be a senior, i'll be a frosh at carleton.</p>