Most Loved Schools

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carleton College
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<p>Pretty cool: top-10-most-loved-schools:</a> Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance</p>

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<p>I got unnaturally excited when I saw Carleton at number 2.</p>

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<p>I made the mistake of reading some of the reader comments and now I am perilously close to being as incapable of neural function as many of those who posted them…particularly those who take exception to the fact that many colleges on the list are liberal arts colleges – a term that they’ve apparently defined for themselves to mean “places where socialists learn how to paint pretty pictures and where the alums are so reckless with money that they’d continue to donate even though they had already paid tuition as students.”</p>

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<p>Agh! Why would you say such a thing? Now you’ve made me go and read them.</p>

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<p>I was very happy to see Carleton’s place on this list. My son graduated and even when he was an Americorp volunteer he found the money to make a small donation. His experience at Carleton was first rate! Everything about the college met or exceeded his expectations and ours as well. It says a lot about a college or university when alumni give after the tuition payments are paid. As for all the comments on the article - well that is a black hole - I also fell into it and laughed several times.</p>

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<p>A gem from the comments section:</p>

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<p>^^ lol! To borrow from another CC thread, “Just smile and nod. Smile and nod.”</p>

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<p>My personal favorite was the poster who refers to Liberal Arts Colleges as “low hanging fruit.” What?</p>

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<p>^ Exactly my point about degraded neural function, reesez. Tidbits like that are puzzling, so – being a problem-solver no doubt – you try to get into their head. Then you realize that you don’t want to go there, but it’s too late. Curiosity killed the synapse.</p>

<p>Don’t say you weren’t warned!</p>

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<p>Haha yep, you’re right!</p>

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<p>That’s funny!</p>

<p>Seriously though, as an alum who donates, I was always bothered by this ranking of alumni participation in gift-giving. I am bothered that people care and I’m bothered that this is a statistic used by USnews. It is a measure of a tradition of contributing to Carleton, which I just don’t see as a measure of how much you love your school or the quality of your education. I have too many college friends who give $10 just to make sure the most annoying classmate of their entire class does not call them every year. </p>

<p>I guess I see this statistic as a distraction.</p>