(Grinnell) Reasons to go here:

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	A-	Faculty Accessibility	A+
Useful Schoolwork	C	Excess Competition	B
Academic Success	B+	Creativity/ Innovation	B+
Individual Value	B+	University Resource Use	B-
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	A	Friendliness	B+
Campus Maintenance	B+	Social Life	C+
Surrounding City	F	Extra Curriculars	C-
Safety	A+

Describes the student body as: Friendly, Afraid, Arrogant, Approachable, Broken Spirit, Violent, Snooty, Closeminded Describes the faculty as: Friendly, Helpful, Arrogant, Condescending, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed

Female

SAT2300

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Surrounding City	F

Highest Rating Faculty Accessibility	A+

She cares more about Surrounding City than the average student.

Date: May 02 2012
Major: Anthropology (This Major's Salary over time)
Reasons to go here:

Small classes

Small campus; not a lot of walking

Very small

Reasons not to go here:

Cliquish

Holier than thou attitudes, both among many students and the administration

Nothing to do except drinking & drugs, some decent lectures and plays to attend

Annoyingly, you still have to take boring intro classes to qualify for more interesting, upper-division classes.

Excessive workload—Felt like some professors gave a lot of work for the sake of giving a lot of work.

Laundry machines and printers need some work

Annoying knee-jerk liberal self-righteousness/ political correctness

However (in reference to above point), not as politically active as anticipated

Very small

Many very biased (politically) professors. Atheism and free love equals A if you write semi-well with some professors (not all). Anything less and you'd be trying your luck.

A very, very modest number of good-looking girls (I know that's superficial, but hey, just putting that out there.)

Not open-minded (I don't know what impression you've gotten from my previous comments…). If you choose to go here, do not defend any of the following: libertarian ways of thinking, laxer gun laws, not affirmative action, not radical feminism. You must always state that the administration is not doing enough for gays, bisexuals, and lesbians (though Grinnell is quite friendly in this regard…).

Sense of community seems strained, factious. A lot of people seem content with doing their own thing with their friend groups.

Asterisk by qualities that apply to all left-leaning LACs

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