i feel like bragging

Aug. 22 2005 Newsweek pg. 57 states:

HOTTEST FOR LIBERAL ARTS
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
The 1,900-student campus in the middle of a vibrant metropolis has become a key recipient of the growing number of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton applicants who are rejected for no other reason than that those schools don't have space for all the A-plus applicants. Macalester has one faculty member for every 11 students and an emphasis on international affairs, symbolized by one of its most famous alumni, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The college has six language residences: Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. It offers the intimacy of the archetypal small-town campus--in the middle of the Twin Cities. Applications have increased 60 percent since 1995.

The Princeton Review ranked Macalester in the top twenty for six categories this year.
2nd place for gay acceptance, 4th for most politically active community, 11th for "most nostalgic for Bill Clinton," 14th place "ignore god on a regular basis," 17th for best quality of life, and 18th for "Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians."