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Financing a college education has always been a challenge. Paul Thiboutot, vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid, knows this firsthand. He was a first-generation college student at Boston College and later helped pay his daughter’s way through Carleton. Neither of their degrees would have been possible without financial aid.
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Juggling a stressful first year at Carleton, a work-study job, a part-time job, and the home business she and her mother run was wearing on Danny Campos Gonzalez ’20. She’d often return to her dorm room around 10:30 p.m. exhausted from the long day. Her floor mates suggested she not work quite so much.
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Carleton is practically a member of the family to Dawn Scott Grench ’83, who grew up in Northfield and can count more than 30 relatives as fellow Carleton alumni—stretching from her grandfather, Irvin Scott from the Class of 1909, to her daughter Eva Grench, Class of 2019.
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Facts and figures to help understand the complexities of a Carleton financial aid award, which typically includes a combination of Carleton-funded grants and scholarships, work-study employment, and federal student loans.
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“If you’re going to do a job, you should take pride in your work,” says Sharaka Berry ’18, who works as a building supervisor at the rec center. “Whether it’s folding towels or stacking weights, even cleaning the lint trap out of the dryer, that’s all part of the job.”
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In the fall of 1954, Yvonne Connolly Martin ’58 almost didn’t come to Carleton. She was $50 short. She’d applied on the advice of her guidance counselor and hadn’t really thought about money. When her acceptance letter came, her parents—an insurance agent and a homemaker—sat down to figure out what they could afford.
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Larnzell Martin ’72 doesn’t remember where the letter came from. He definitely remembers ripping it up, though.
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Your gift to financial aid makes Carleton possible for students from all walks of life—removing barriers for outstanding students who deserve a place at Carleton, regardless of family income.
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Since 2001, Carleton has partnered with the national Posse Foundation to identify public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential.
A core value of Carleton has always been meeting the full financial need of all admitted students. Your gift to financial aid makes Carleton possible for students from all walks of life—removing barriers for outstanding students who deserve a place at Carleton, regardless of family income. This ensures our campus reflects the socioeconomic diversity we promote.
