YES MACALESTER

Kira got a GREAT letter in the mail on Friday. The envelope said YES Macalester. This school is probably her "dream" school. She is still waiting on a Carleton, College Decision, but boy we were very excited to get this affirmation, as little did we know that Mac was on Newsweek's list of 12 Hottestest college and was #1 in Hottestest Liberal Arts school.HOTTEST FOR LIBERAL ARTS from the website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8939242/ "Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. 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 acceptance letter said they had 4800 applications for 477 slots. Congrats to our Kira!