Macalester Academy

Macalester Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1874. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,073, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 53 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar. Macalester College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is Civic Advanced Arts Colleges, 23. Its charge and fees are $48,887 (2015-16).
Life at Macalester Academy is an affectionate advanced arts acquaintance abreast two big Minnesota academy towns. The Macalester campus is a 10-minute drive from both city St. Paul and Minneapolis, two hubs of theatres, museums and alfresco activities accepted as the Twin Cities. Freshmen and sophomores accept to reside on the Macalester campus. There is no Greek arrangement at Macalester, but acceptance can get complex in dozens of added clubs and organizations. The Macalester sports teams, accepted as the Scots, attempt in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Football is not a big draw for apprentice fans, but both the men’s and women’s soccer teams are competitive. Annual apprentice contest cover Springfest and Founder’s Day, campus celebrations that cover bagpipe music and food. Bagpipes are a accepted affair on campus; the apparatus heralds the alpha and end of above events, and acceptance can yield bagpipe acquaint for free. To get off campus, acceptance can yield a chic anniversary division at one of the added clandestine colleges in the Twin Cities: Augsburg College, Hamline University, St. Catherine University and University of St. Thomas. Keen on an all-embracing focus, Macalester Academy consistently enrolls acceptance from added than 90 countries, and about 60 percent of the apprentice physique studies abroad.
For acceptance that charge added abetment for exams or alum academy applications, the on-campus MAX Center offers chargeless alone and accumulation apprenticeship sessions. In addition, banking abetment is affirmed to every student, as the academy pledges to accommodated the abounding charge of anniversary enrollee. Notable alumni of Macalester cover abettor Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations; above U.S. Vice Admiral Walter Mondale; and aptitude abettor Ari Emanuel, for whom the "Entourage" appearance Ari Gold was modeled.
School mission and different qualities (as provided by the school):
Macalester has a continued history and attitude of accouterment an all-embracing apprenticeship in a all-around community. That amount amount was adequate over six decades ago if the admiral of the academy wrote that "the top assignment of every abiding Macalester apprentice and every new apprentice is to adapt for the duties of apple citizenship." Today, the Academy is abnormally positioned to brainwash acceptance for success in a all-around economy. Our acceptance account from a accurate class advised to cover all-embracing perspectives, abstraction away with abundant bookish and cultural experience, adroitness with common acquaintance and a association affianced in issues that matter. They appear to Macalester to learn, engage, explore, invent, accept fun, accomplish friends, devise, design, ascertain and accretion the experience, abilities and ability bare to accomplish their dreams and their greatest ambitions. Discussions in and out of the classroom are accomplished by the adventures and perspectives of acceptance who are citizens of over 90 countries. Macalester's ideal breadth in a active residential adjacency of a above city breadth is abnormal for a highly-selective advanced arts college. Minutes from city St. Paul and Minneapolis, it offers acceptance a abundance of analysis and internship opportunities in business, finance, medicine, science, government, law, the arts and more. Acceptance appear from about the world, beyond the nation and adjacent to abstraction in an ambiance that supports inspiration, success and account to local, civic and all-embracing communities. The academy provides a absolute access to advancing acceptance to curl as basic citizens of the world. Macalester does this in an atmosphere that fosters accord and success. It inspires ambitious, committed and accomplished adolescent humans who accept the abeyant to change the world, and prepares them to do just that. They aswell account from a affluent arrangement of alumni, who include: a Vice Admiral of the United States (Walter Mondale) and a Secretary-General of the United Nations who was a Nobel Peace Prize champ (Kofi Annan); associates of Congress; leaders of affluence 500 companies; award-winning actors, authors, artists, poets, producers and playwrights; Fulbright and Rhodes scholars; Peace Corps volunteers and scientists.