<p>So I really like Grinnell, and I love the student body enough that I might be willing to stay in the Midwest, where I've lived my whole life, but I really want to move east. If I go to Grinnell, will I be stuck, only able to get a job or get into grad school in the Midwest? Do most of the students stay in the region?</p>
<p>that doesn’t depend on most of the students but on you.
your diploma won’t take you places you will be taking your diploma.</p>
<p>Not at all, sarucane. There are Grinnellians all over the country and all over the world. No limits!</p>
<p>OMG! What a question. Is that worse than “being stuck in the northeast?” I don’t get the “stuck” part. Are you afraid there is an invisible electrified fence around Iowa or the midwest?</p>
<p>Okay, there’s no reason to be a prick about this, my mother ended up literally stuck in the midwest after she had to move here, so while I like Grinnell I don’t want to end up in Iowa, I want to end up in England, and being concerned about the difficulty of moving from the middle of nowhere in Iowa to a different continent where they’ll have no idea where I’m talking about, versus being able to say I went to college 3 hours from New York City, is legitimate.</p>
<p>I live about 20 minutes from New York City and even so, nobody’s heard of where I’m from. Being near a some place (and 3 hours isn’t that close) doesn’t necessarily give you the reputation of the place. If you want people in England to have heard of your college, a place like Harvard or Princeton would be a better bet than a small liberal arts college.</p>
<p>With any college, there are alumni all over the world. Many people don’t stay forever in the place where they went to college. A great school like Grinnell would most likely help you get where you want instead of hindering you.</p>
<p>My husband and his two brothers and a sister went to Grinnell. All three brothers live in the southeast, and his sister is in California. None has lived in Iowa since they graduated. The brothers went to grad school in the northeast (really well-known ones), but ended up down here. What tends to get you stuck in a place is children (much harder to move once you have them). Just going to a school someplace doesn’t do it, as is obvious in our family’s case.</p>
<p>The “stuck” thing tends to happen more in regards to professional schools such as law, med, architecture etc.</p>
<p>If England is your goal, check out the Grinnell in London semester on the website. I imagine you could make connections there.</p>