What T20 school isn’t “grim” these days?

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Anonymous wrote:Reading the Princeton thread.
And Northwestern thread….depressing.

Which T20 schools aren’t “grim” or soulless?

Looking for semi- intellectual but still social and lively.
Small class sizes key.
Where you know your classmates……
Humanities major.

Most kids at Princeton and Northwestern are quite happy and thriving. If you're going to make decisions based on the outliers, you probably shouldn't be looking at T20 schools because they will all have kids who weren't happy about their experiences.

Almost 1/3 of kids at Princeton major in computer science and engineering; add biological sciences and econ to the mix and that’s just over 1/2 of all students. This disproportion is only growing with expansion of engineering etc. Not a good place for a humanities major.

Wouldn’t that make a great for humanities major? Really small class sizes, access to professors and a ton of resources going your way since the herd has moved in another direction?

Not any more than Johns Hopkins is good for humanities majors. Sometimes life of the mind types don’t want to be surrounded by preprofessional grinder types.

Because the 'life of the mind' does not include trying to learn physics or chemistry or engineering, right? The life of the mind does not include facility with math or interest in biology, right?

Say you don’t have a humanities kid and did not major in humanities without saying you don’t have a humanities kid and did not major in humanities…

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Agree on Brown.

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These threads about wanting the prestige without the grind all are so funny (or sad, depending on mentality). Just pick one and move on.

This oversimplifies it. There are prestigious schools where the grind is worse than most jobs. There are other prestigious schools where the hardest part is getting in.

What are those schools? I’ve heard Yale…

DC is always underwater with work at Yale, and the expectations from professors and from the students themselves are high. But the environment is rich with stimulation, and the kids love it there. They have a good time too, without alcohol if that is not your thing.

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Every single Yale alum I have met, and there have been quite a few in my area of work, gushed about how much they loved being at Yale.

Right, because they went there in the 1990s and 2000s. I went to Stanford and can say the same. That doesn’t take away from the fact that the Stanford campus is undeniably grim now.

I’m the poster you quoted. No, not just older Yale alums. BOTH old and newer alums (out of college less than 5 years) expressed nothing but love for Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:That doesn’t take away from the fact that the Stanford campus is undeniably grim now.

My friends and I have clerked for judges who are instantly skeptical when encountering briefs with arguments relying on adjectives like very, undoubtedly, obviously, etc.

"Undeniably grim" is a red flag for your credibility, and so is claiming as "fact" something that's subjective.

Typical arrogant yet utterly clueless lawyer response. Ridiculous, and does nothing but give credence to the original assertion.

I’m sure you are about 50 years old and still talking about your clerkship as though it happened yesterday. Honestly it’s so sad how former clerks have nothing else going on in their lives so drop the fact of their clerkships in all conversations, with increasingly frantic desperation, scrabbling desperately for validation.

Typical dodge, which reinforces that the original assertion had no merit whatsoever.

So, you were obviously correctly assessed.

Stop talking about your clerkship that happened thirty-something years ago. It’s extremely pathetic and embarrassing.

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These threads about wanting the prestige without the grind all are so funny (or sad, depending on mentality). Just pick one and move on.

This oversimplifies it. There are prestigious schools where the grind is worse than most jobs. There are other prestigious schools where the hardest part is getting in.

What are those schools? I’ve heard Yale…

DC is always underwater with work at Yale, and the expectations from professors and from the students themselves are high. But the environment is rich with stimulation, and the kids love it there. They have a good time too, without alcohol if that is not your thing.

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Every single Yale alum I have met, and there have been quite a few in my area of work, gushed about how much they loved being at Yale.

Right, because they went there in the 1990s and 2000s. I went to Stanford and can say the same. That doesn’t take away from the fact that the Stanford campus is undeniably grim now.

I’m the poster you quoted. No, not just older Yale alums. BOTH old and newer alums (out of college less than 5 years) expressed nothing but love for Yale.

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Anonymous wrote:That doesn’t take away from the fact that the Stanford campus is undeniably grim now.

My friends and I have clerked for judges who are instantly skeptical when encountering briefs with arguments relying on adjectives like very, undoubtedly, obviously, etc.

"Undeniably grim" is a red flag for your credibility, and so is claiming as "fact" something that's subjective.

Typical arrogant yet utterly clueless lawyer response. Ridiculous, and does nothing but give credence to the original assertion.

I’m sure you are about 50 years old and still talking about your clerkship as though it happened yesterday. Honestly it’s so sad how former clerks have nothing else going on in their lives so drop the fact of their clerkships in all conversations, with increasingly frantic desperation, scrabbling desperately for validation.

Typical dodge, which reinforces that the original assertion had no merit whatsoever.

So, you were obviously correctly assessed.

Stop talking about your clerkship that happened thirty-something years ago. It’s extremely pathetic and embarrassing.

That was several posts ago. You're the one who's pathetically fixated on it, not me.

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