<p>I sent you a long reply that got eaten.</p>
<p>Check out the dorms, suite style only!</p>
<p>Check out the Study Abroad, if that’s your thing. It was for my daughter.</p>
<p>Ask me ? after the visit. I’ll be happy to answer.</p>
<p>Carleton has intellectual, quirky students who like to “push boundaries” in many fields (naked coed anything in Minnesota requires a certain boldness that wouldn’t be needed, say, in Austin, TX). Joke aside, Carls like to create, discover, debate, and can be original to radical. They’re also friendly and down to earth compared to many colleges of the same academic caliber. The college’s reputation and extensive network is impressive for its size. One of the big sports is ultimate frisbee.</p>
<p>St Olaf students are, overall, smart, engaged, wholesome, and musical. Compared to the evangelical colleges in #17 it would be considered freakishly/sinfully liberal - the students and faculty defended marriage equality last year, for example, and although there’s a chapel that’s well attended, it’s voluntary and exegesis is not dogmatic; the religion faculty includes people representing non Christian faiths and many different branches of christianity. Students are engaged with faith and interested in questioning dogma and certainties. Music is as respected as football is elswhere and members of the St Olaf Choir are the big people on campus :). It’s as if everybody sings, plays an instrument, or is involved in some informal music band. Also, the food is supposed to be really, really good if that matters to you. One of the big sports is soccer.
Both Carleton and St Olaf share the little town of Northfield for caf</p>
<p>thanks NJSue and MYOS1634, that would explain why I have never heard it mentioned in evangelical circles. Having non-christian faculty does strain the use of the evangelical label although the no alcohol policy separates it from the mainstream.</p>
<p>Sounds like a charming place nonetheless as does Northfield itself and hints at the Minnesota personality I’ve read about in this forum.</p>
<p>^ If you get a PBS channel in your area, be sure that around Christmas (anytime in December) you catch the St.Olaf concert. You will be mightily impressed.</p>
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<p>@gloworm, was the decision to go with Trinity based on dollars or something else?</p>
<p>Not really money, too much, until she looked into Study Abroad.</p>
<p>Weather. She had an EC that is outdoors, and at TU they practiced outdoors, even in winter. In MN it would have been indoors, and she was tired of having done that since 6th grade (IN).</p>
<p>Dorms-suite style only, maid service every other week.</p>
<p>Relative ease of travel-airport only 10 min. from campus.</p>
<p>Nearby great medical care in SA.</p>
<p>She loved the campus. Well, St.Olaf is beautiful as well.</p>