Colleges that alums always rave about
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Anonymous
| In general, I'd say LACs, Catholic schools, and the Academies. |
Anonymous
| Middlebury and Carleton |
Anonymous
| Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, Notre Dame and Michigan would be on anyone's short list. After that it's a long list with many SLACs vying for the honor. |
Anonymous
| Sewanee |
Anonymous
Perhaps, but Michigan is likely achieving it more through sheer numbers than the other schools you listed. It may be a different type of loyalty, but I see a lot of loyalty at schools where the alumni have had a shared, challenging experience. This can be MIT and Caltech, but also West Point, the Naval Academy, and even schools like VMI. |
Anonymous
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"Perhaps, but Michigan is likely achieving it more through sheer numbers than the other schools you listed."
I don't agree. Michigan is achieving it because it is a very welcoming and fun place that still manages to produce very smart graduates. Some people get lost there but most don't and are very happy. The enthusiasm on campus is remarkable not only for its intensity but also its diversity. Whether your final two college choices were Michigan and Berkeley, Michigan and Duke, Michigan and Notre Dame, Michigan and U Chicago, Michigan and Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia Tech, Michigan and Harvard, Michigan and NYU Tisch, Michigan and Wesleyan, or Michigan and Oberlin--and there are plenty of all of those at Michigan--you're probably going to wind up among the hundreds of thousands of alumni who annoyingly shout out "Go Blue" to every single other human being wearing a Michigan shirt on the street. |
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Anonymous
More so than schools like UCLA, Cal, UNC, UVA, Texas, etc.? |
Anonymous
| Holy Cross. There's something besides lead in the Worcester water that makes many Crusader alums nuts about their school. |
Anonymous
Lol |
Anonymous
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Between family, friends, colleagues, and friends of my 3 kids in or graduated college and one junior; here are some of my opinions:
Duke Villanova Brown Princeton Claremont Colleges Denison Michigan Northeastern WPI Purdue UF UNC UT Austin U of Wash Bates School of Mines Boston College Penn State Rose-Hulman Arizona State Stanford Davidson Elon U of Ill - Urbana Pitt Wisconsin Ohio State Vanderbilt Tufts The ones that I hear Alums or current students meh on: G Tech UChicago NYU Columbia Amherst UMD UVA Boston U Georgetown Hopkins Swarthmore CMU Bowdoin Emory RPI Kenyon MIT Rice Rutgers William/Mary Northwestern Notre Dame Case Western Tulane U Mass Wake Forest |
Anonymous
This seems extraordinarily random. |
Anonymous
+1 I do t even know how you can have personal knowledge of all of these schools - even if it’s through friends as PP says. |
Anonymous
This list is a waste of time to even glance at. No rhyme or reason as to which school is on which list. |
Anonymous
| I think the best objective indicators are alumni giving rates and then graduation rates. |