Macalester College Top Questions

The idea that Macalester is an activist paradise is not entirely true. While many students are active outside of the school, there is much less enthusiasm for classic student activism. Most activists are centered on environmental or social causes, rather than being active in areas such as the anarchist movement, or any more radical causes.

Somewhat. Students are very liberal and like to bond with nature in weird ways. They are ethically more conscious than most. Some like to raid the trash at Whole Foods and Breadsmith to find their meals.

I think to some extent they are very true, but not in the negative spin that they are generally presented in. I think that students are more openminded to conservative viewpoints than people give us credit for

While there are always exceptions, YES, Macalester is a left-leaning hippie school full of socially-awkward students who value difference and inclusion. The students are very accepting, but the sorority/frat type might feel out of place at this school!

Nope

No.

To a point. I don´t smoke and I´m not super liberal, and I´ve never felt out of place at Mac. There´s definitely a wide range of people, and definitely not everyone is weird. However, if weird, smoking hippies are your thing, then Mac has a spot for that too.

Arguably. The students at Macalester are very socially, politically, and enviornmentally aware, and largely liberal. But, in my expereince, there are few actual hippies.

For the most part, they are pretty accurate.

pretty much