| By Cinderella (Cinderella) on Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 11:45 am: Edit |
F&M gave me much money, but Mac seems to be better overall. Do you guys have any suggestion? Thanks in advance.
| By Cinderella (Cinderella) on Saturday, April 12, 2003 - 06:08 am: Edit |
Hey, why nobody answer my question?
| By Wadad (Wadad) on Saturday, April 12, 2003 - 02:00 pm: Edit |
Visit each school if you can. If you can't, try to chat with students from each school online.
Macalester is probably a more "Liberal" LAC, in a major city in Minnesota. F&M has a reputation for being particularly strong for pre-professionals - law & business especially. Lancaster PA is hardly a major city.
Macalester does not have enough dorm space for all its students, so many Juniors must live off-campus in nearby rental housing. They have been having problems getting enough players for their sports teams - letters in the school paper talk about only 6 members on the womens basketball team. Try to find the on-line version of the schools' newspapers and read them for a bit of the students point of view, but don't necessarily take it as gospel.
If money is very important in your choice, obviously you need to think about that, too.
Don't choose the school based only on its reputation or rank in USNews. Try to figure out which school fits you better.
| By Wadad (Wadad) on Saturday, April 12, 2003 - 07:47 pm: Edit |
Another difference - Macalester is much more ethnically diverse. F&M is about 90% white and 40+% from Pennsylvania. Macalester makes a big deal about Kofi Annan (Sec. General of the UN) being an alumnus. It has a significantly higher percentage of minority and foreign students.
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