Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
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Anonymous
| I think any LAC outside the top 10 and even the top 10 are more collaborative than most of the top 20 national universities. |
Anonymous
| Midwestern and Southern SLAC’s |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| Northwestern! D1 school with excellent academics. Kids are collaborative not competitive, yet everyone gets good results. I think it also helps when there is no grade deflation. |
Anonymous
Diligent and Striver have different meanings, at least here in Lake Wobegon. |
Anonymous
So good to hear this twice in this thread, DD got in ED and this is the goal. |
Anonymous
| Wake Forest |
Anonymous
Congratulations! |
Anonymous
| Wake Forest, Holy Cross, Colby, and Colgate. |
Anonymous
This is what both my kids wanted, so yes! Schools on their lists: Smith Wesleyan Oberlin Denison Colorado College Middlebury William & Mary Furman Lafayette Mt Holyoke Bryn Mawr Vassar Colby Elon St Lawrence Sarah Lawrence Hamilton |
Anonymous
| If you're looking Ivies, look at Yale. It was very collaborative back in my day, although I have heard clubs are competitive now (unfortunate change). |
Anonymous
| Midwest and California |
Anonymous
| DC has several friends who are at UChicago and describe it as collaborative. The classes are so tough that you pretty much need to be that way to survive. |
Anonymous
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I went to Duke and when I went to a top tier professional school, it was very clear how much more relaxed and comfortable in their own skin the Duke alums than people from almost every other school (while still being top achievers). We got our work done very well with much less drama than others.
Unfortunately, I think Duke has a lot more strivers now than it used to. Which is really too bad. I think a non-striver can still be happy there if they can avoid getting sucked in. |
Anonymous
Congratulations!! |