<p>Hi. I'd love to hear from parents and from their children who have been attending a college, about their experience so far. I'm especially interested in Grinnell, but also would love to hear about other LACs. I wonder about the less reported upon LACs, such as Kenyon, Macalester, Bard, Skidmore, Occidental, etc.
Some of my questions:
The experience of living on a small campus, in the country
" " in the Midwest
How has it been to adapt to the academic standards
Experiences re professors: are they mostly positive, and - if not - in what way
Ability to get the classes one chooses; I've heard of problems with this in some of the schools. If there are, does a kid have to be aggressive to get into classes?
General campus and social life
Is there a prevailing "work hard/party hard" ethos
How good are the programs, re helping a student who is very intelligent and motivated but has some difficulty with self-organizing and perfectionism.
Thanks very much.</p>
<p>Here are responses from current students, courtesy of Princeton Review. Click on the “Academics”, “Student Body” and “Campus Life” links:</p>
<p>[Grinnell</a> College](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/GrinnellCollege.aspx]Grinnell”>Grinnell College - The Princeton Review College Rankings & Reviews)</p>
<p>Thank you, gadad. I’ll visit the site.</p>
<p>If you are looking for descriptions from current students, posting in the Parents Forum is not the likeliest place to find them.</p>
<p>Dear mini,
As I stated in the body of the text, “I’d love to hear from parents and from their children who have been attending…”.
However, I appreciate your correction. Perhaps “Experiences of Current Students” would have been more appropriate. I am a new user and don’t know my way around the CC site, but I assume that it is too late to change the thread title.</p>
<p>OP, just repost your query on the Grinnell forum.</p>
<p>Thanks, menloparkmom.</p>
<p>Here is College Confidential’s own Grinnell Forum:</p>
<p>[Grinnell</a> College - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/grinnell-college/]Grinnell”>Grinnell College - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>Parents and students post there.</p>