<p>Does Carleton publish on its web site the number of students who major in each discipline? If not, does anyone have that information?</p>
<p>ugh I just had this info in my copy of the carletonian but I cannot find it now. I remember the most popular majors were biology and political science though. If I dig it up I will post the full numbers. </p>
<p>I am a freshmen at carleton by the way, I used this site for info in the college process so to give back I am happy to answer any questions you or anyone else has about my current school.</p>
<p>p.s. Carleton rules!!</p>
<p>Thanks. If you, or someone else finds it, I'd appreciate the information. It appears that you may be from New York. What made you decide on Carleton? Has it been like what you expected? What has been different than what you thought it would be like?</p>
<p>Yup I am from NY, which made Carleton an unlikely choice from the beginning. By this I mean because Northeasterners tend to only know of North East schools.... noone at my school had even heard of Carleton. (not even my college counselor)</p>
<pre><code> I believe I first heard about it from a friend of my parents. Then I found out they were doing college interviews in NYC one weekend so I scheduled an interview and was impressed by the info they had at the building in NY and the friendliness of the alumni. This caused me to apply to Carleton. It was not till I had later researched it that I began to consider it one of my top choices. I ended up getting in and visited it for the first time at accepted students weekend. I had an ok time with my host but more importantly I fell in love with the campus and overall friendly noncompetitive atmosphere at the school. Oh also info from people here, especially useatoothbrush also heavily influenced me to come to Carleton. (thank you useatoothbrush I noticed you are still here!)
As far as my expectations and what was the same and different it is kind of hard to judge those being only a little over 2 weeks into the year. However, I will say the students here are exactly as I expected. Everyone here is very smart, friendly, and interested in learning. (well almost everyone) I have had more fun, intellectually interesting conversations about everything from politics, poverty, and well just about anything then I have had in my entire time at High School. The food is pretty much as I expected... it is mediocre at best and gets old very very fast. The classes I am taking seem good so far , though I would probably be better off waiting to judge those for a few more weeks minimum.
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<p>I don't know if Carleton has any of that information in an easy-to-read format (the 'Tonian issue with the new majors chart is not online, sadly). </p>
<p>Here's what I've got based on searching the student directory (caveats: this only includes juniors and seniors because sophomores and freshmen don't declare and double majors or people with concentrations are counted twice, and the half-dozen people with only special majors and no other areas are not counted at all):</p>
<p>Biology: 100
Economics: 98
Political Science/International Relations: 86
English: 79
History: 63
Chemistry: 59
Psychology: 55
Mathematics: 50
Physics: 43
Studio Art: 39
Geology: 37
Politcal Science: 36
Sociology/Anthropology: 36
American Studies: 28
Computer Science: 25
Environment & Technology Studies (concentration): 25
Biochemistry (concentration): 23
Art History: 22
French and Francophone Studies: 21 (8 majors, 13 concentrators)
Political Economy (concentration): 20
Philosophy: 19
Religion: 17
Cinema and Media Studies (concentration): 13
Cross-Cultural Studies (concentration): 12
Educational Studies (concentration): 12
Classical Languages: 11
European Studies (concentration): 10
Cognitive Studies (concentration): 9
Music: 9
Spanish: 9
Latin American Studies: 8 (2 majors, 6 concentrators)
African/African-American Studies: 7 (3 majors, 4 concentrating)
German: 7
Medieval & Renaissance Studies (concentration): 7
Japanese: 6
Theater Arts: 6
Neuroscience (special major): 4
Russian: 4
Women's and Gender Studies (concentration): 4
Asian Studies: 3
Chinese: 3
East Asian Studies (concentration): 3
Archaelogy (concentration): 2
Latin: 2
Classical Studies: 1
Dance: 1
Romance Languages: 1</p>
<p>In case you didn't figure it out, concentrations are Carletons' equivalent of minors. Most programs are major-only, though some programs are concentration-only while some can be either a major or a concentration. It seems like international students, who are required to take intro to cross-cultural studies when they come here, find it easy to concentrate in that area because you only need a couple more classes. Same with a lot of history, economics, biology, and political science students, who have a couple of pertinent concentrations they can choose if they like. Double majors are not terribly popular because people who choose to do those have to do two sets of comps.</p>
<p>Glad you're enjoying it here wbm, and glad I coud help you decide to come here.</p>