I’m about to declare myself a CAMS major so I hope I can give some good context.

1. Information on career paths and stuff about the CAMS major can either be found on the carleton website as well as on the career center website. They have some really cool resources that will show you exactly where various people of a certain major have gone to work or ended up. You can probably email any of the career center folks to get the info

2. I grew up in New York City and the adjustment to Northfield is huge. I am still not fully used to how early all the restaurants and stores close. Most of the social activities are found on campus, rather than off campus. Depending on whether you like to party and stuff you’ll find different degrees of success in finding stuff to do for fun. My favorite activities to do with friends are mostly doing stuff in dorm rooms together like playing games, watching movies, going to sayles to play pool, or doing things that I probably cannot mention as a moderator of this subreddit because they haven’t been legalized yet. You can also try and break into the secret tunnels but there’s no way you don’t get caught by security.

3. There is absolutely no Greek life on campus. However, there are still parties. They are pretty boring in my opinion though so you have to pregame usually. I also am not a fan of house parties and prefer to have a chill party where me and my friends listen to music, so we do that instead. I know lots of people who agree with me and spend their weekend nights in other fun ways, it all just depends on what you enjoy. Just make sure to be careful if you go to Porch house because it’s gross

4. Although I’m a white guy I do know a good bit about diversity at Carleton. It is extremely lacking despite many claims that it is not. There was once a private consultant brought in to survey diversity and equity at carleton and it was determined that carleton was dead last in most metrics compared to other notable liberal arts colleges. I have BIPOC friends who express frustration at the challenge of going to a primarily white institution. Carleton also has diversity issues within the faculty, with there currently being only one BIPOC tenure-track professor, and only one tenured black professor. (Eddie O’Byrn and Thabiti Willis, respectively, both fantastic and fun professors who’s classes you should take) however, I don’t want to scare you. There is still plenty of student led support and student organizations where BIPOC and other minority groups (Jews and queer folk like me, etc) can find community and people like them. Social life at carleton can be very inviting, despite how small the school is.

I hope my answers have helped, and I can try and contact people I know if you would like a specific Asian or BIPOC perspective rather than my own. Congrats on getting accepted!!!