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deloar
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Posted: Tue Aug 7th, 2007 10:43 pm |
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thanks, John. this is helpful.
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Descartes
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Posted: Wed Aug 8th, 2007 02:32 am |
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I'm not at all familiar with the local music scene here in MN, but even I know of the St. Olaf Choir. An excellent reputation.
See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/arts/music/10olaf.html?ex=1186632000&en=a3c516684cc4ba32&ei=5070
Last edited on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 02:35 am by Descartes
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Thu Aug 9th, 2007 06:16 pm |
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DeLoar,
We didn't tour but we did a quick self-walking tour of St. Olaf after visiting Carleton this week. The campus is very pretty and nicely situated. It's not a fit for my son for various reasons, but he thought the campus was very nice overall. One thing that they don't show in the brochures is that there is a giant wind turbine on campus that kind of hovers over one of the dorms and can be seen from many places on campus. My son thought that was fascinating.
The town of Northfield impressed my son - it is a very cute, historic town perched on a small river. Since there are around 5,000 college students in Northfield, many of the stores and restaurants in town are oriented towards college kids. Northfield earned bonus points with my son for having a great used CD/record store on the main street. I think it would be a great place to spend four years. The twin cities and the MSP airport are also an easy shot up the highway.
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Consolation
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 01:54 pm |
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John5616 wrote: Here's the article about the St. Olaf admission process, from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (may require free registration).
http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/1022855.html
Very interesting article, but I find it hard to imagine that they actually revealed a discussion about a kid whose parent is CEO of Google...were they joking, or do you think they changed the name of the company?
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Descartes
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 02:18 pm |
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<<"I didn't see that," Pope said, and paused. "His dad is CEO of Google; does that help?" And he winked.>>
Clearly a joke between the admin officer and his boss.
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binx
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 02:36 pm |
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I've read this article before, but every time I see it, I feel a thrill that they chose to accept my D, and a pit in my stomach that she ultimately turned them down. She fits some of their stereotype - female, musician, good academics, Scandanavian background. And some of their "desirables" - out of state, international experience. Her challenge in writing their "why St. Olaf" essay was in feeling on one hand like she would fit there perfectly, and on the other, that she was presenting the "same old same old." St. Olaf was the first school she fell in love with, when beginning the process. I know she would have done well there, fit in, and thrived.
We never visited, and that was a strike against - choosing the unknown over the known. Even with good merit, they still came out to be one of the more expensive. D was also concerned about the weather, and I was concerned about the "hovering" reputation they have. I feel like we went through a very similar process of "accepting, rejecting, or wait listing" that they did! I would have to say that ultimately, St. Olaf was "wait listed" by my D.
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Consolation
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Posted: Fri Aug 10th, 2007 03:20 pm |
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Descartes wrote: <<"I didn't see that," Pope said, and paused. "His dad is CEO of Google; does that help?" And he winked.>>
Clearly a joke between the admin officer and his boss.
I think that the college admissions process is destroying my capacity for irony.
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WestrnMom
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Posted: Sat Aug 11th, 2007 02:24 pm |
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That article shows the serious situation schools have when they are suddenly discovered by students. If they admit too few, their classes are too small. If they admit too many and their yield suddenly goes up, they can't handle that many acceptances. We visited two schools last year who had higher than expected yields for Fall of 2006, and they were really sweating it. As a result, they waitlisted or turned away more students for Fall 2007. I'm very curious to see their admit and yield rates when they finally come out.
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CardinalFang
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Posted: Thu Apr 17th, 2008 04:56 pm |
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Fang Jr and I visited Carleton a couple of weeks ago, and while there, took a drive through St. Olaf. Between the time I arranged the trip and the time we went, winter quarter grades came-- S will not be applying to Carleton 
But we did like Northfield, a charming midwestern town. St. Olaf is a pretty campus, all grey stone and towers, on the top of a hill, with a wind turbine looming (Carleton students remarked that Carleton had a turbine first!). On a different thread here, I had talked about how blond St. Olaf's students were, and several people corrected me. My brother, who accompanied us, was driving, which gave Fang Jr and me the chance to check out the hair color of the students we saw walking around. Well over half the students we saw looked like they were competing in the National Blondness Championships.
While walking along the main street of Northfield looking for a place for dinner, we came upon a waffle restaurant. As we perused the menu, an older guy came up to us and said the restaurant was great and we should try it. I had him pegged as a professor, but he added with a wink, "I'm the owner." It turned out that he was right; the restaurant was great. I was right as well: he was the owner, but also a professor at Carleton.
In hindsight, it would have made more sense to tour and interview at St. Olaf, and zip through Carleton.
Last edited on Mon Apr 28th, 2008 07:05 pm by CardinalFang
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mackinaw
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Posted: Thu Apr 17th, 2008 07:20 pm |
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Blondes are a dying breed, but there will certainly be concentrations of them for some time to come.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/758084/posts
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jocelynDAD
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Posted: Thu Apr 17th, 2008 07:33 pm |
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CFang:
JUst spend a weekend at St Olaf (Accepted Students event) with 430 students visiting, this being the 5th time I spent a couple of days on and around campus in the past two years. Yes, there are blonds - in fact my D2 roommates have both been blonds, howsoever, they are outnumbered in the student body by quite a few, still and happily there are a good number and as D3 noted in her Pro and Con lists as she decided which school she was going to attend, St Olaf had 'cute boys'!
She did not confid if the 'cute boys' hair coloring was a factor
BTW, since it was windy, cold and snowy or raining most of the wekend, it was indoors that hair colors were noted. Otherwise, Hoodies and hats were the common outdoors attire.
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