Macalester College Top Questions

Describe your favorite campus traditions.

Helena

My school is best known for two things: diversity and eccentricism. Diversity in terms of social classifications--race, gender, etc, and eccentricity in terms of the types of activities and ideologies that the students are involved in. Students at Macalester tend to be very unique, and definitely think outside the box.

Amanda

Internationalism and diversity, challenging academics

Katherine

Intelligent, liberal students who are interested in changing the world

Kate

Being liberal, having a good Economics department, and being hard

Kayoua

My school is best know for our acedemic excellence and our very liberal thinking as well as our strive for a global perspective.

Emily

Having an intellectually active student body.

Xuexi

Unattractive people, our extreme liberalism, the MARC, internationallism.

Shanza

Liberalism, academic standing, financial aid,