Elite schools with down to earth students

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Anonymous wrote:DC picked Purdue over Michigan for engineering for this reason. Michigan is not laid back or collaborative (I attended). Too many wealthy, east coast students that judge anyone not like them. And the students judge each other by grades, post grad jobs, and Greek status.

Purdue felt much more laid back. People say hello when you walk by. Purdue has an academic boot camp and study centers. I never had that at Michigan.

Yes. Absolutely. Midwest nice is real and noticeable. More laid back. And refreshing.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice for sure

I don't have anyone at Notre Dame, but when we visited it seemed like it had a really good vibe. Friendly, down to earth kids.

I would add that the staff who work there are also super friendly and helpful. It is always a very pleasant visit when we go...even when the weather isn't that great.

That’s a midwestern thing….

Sure of course. But Notre Dame is more of a community than many other universities. Some even reference it as a cult. If it were plopped in an east coast city, I truly believe it would be the same type of feel.

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Rice definitely!

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Anonymous wrote:DC picked Purdue over Michigan for engineering for this reason. Michigan is not laid back or collaborative (I attended). Too many wealthy, east coast students that judge anyone not like them. And the students judge each other by grades, post grad jobs, and Greek status.

Purdue felt much more laid back. People say hello when you walk by. Purdue has an academic boot camp and study centers. I never had that at Michigan.

Purdue isn't elite.

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Anonymous wrote:So it seems like the most cited schools are Tufts, Northwestern, Wesleyan, and Wisconsin.

Rice. Northwestern has a lot of snooty kids.

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In my experience, kids I know from W&M, Northwestern, Rice, and MIT (surprising, I know) are all exceptionally down to earth and kind.

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, kids I know from W&M, Northwestern, Rice, and MIT (surprising, I know) are all exceptionally down to earth and kind.

One of these is not like the others…

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience, kids I know from W&M, Northwestern, Rice, and MIT (surprising, I know) are all exceptionally down to earth and kind.

One of these is not like the others…

Well...Rice is a food; William & Mary are a couple; Northwestern is a location; MIT is a school.

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MIT.

Super collaborative and supportive community.

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I think this is a unicorn.

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lol, Carleton, Haverford, Tufts, etc are NOT elite schools.

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Anonymous wrote:DC picked Purdue over Michigan for engineering for this reason. Michigan is not laid back or collaborative (I attended). Too many wealthy, east coast students that judge anyone not like them. And the students judge each other by grades, post grad jobs, and Greek status.

Purdue felt much more laid back. People say hello when you walk by. Purdue has an academic boot camp and study centers. I never had that at Michigan.

Purdue isn't elite.

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Brown! As may be expected, there’s a small contingent of mind-bogglingly wealthy kids, and a small group of militant hardcore tunnel-vision leftists, and within both of those groups there’s a subset of people who are kind of awful/not laid-back etc at all, but the other 85% of the undergrad population are made up of joyful, welcoming, open-minded, loving, and intellectually curious kids from more varied backgrounds than you could imagine. The vibe is that almost everyone wants to meet and be friends with almost everyone else. At least that was my experience—it was wonderful!

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Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin

NOT Bowdoin- very white, upper class, prep-school, snooty New England brats. Wanna be IVY's that couldn't get in.

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Uninformed take on Borodin. What are you, 12?

No, my daughter went there and had a hard time socially as a woman of color. Very cliquey students with little exposure to students with difference- culturally or otherwise. Wonderful teachers, though, and that's what got her through. Brunswick is a cute town, but also lacks diversity and somewhat isolated. It's the social piece that is tough as a woman of color.

If diversity was that important for her then why would she have applied? I’d also say that describing students as bratty is sophomoric. Your daughter made a bad decision but that’s not a reflection on the school. Grow up.

Ugh, YOU grow up. Don’t know PP’s situation, but obviously not everyone (and statistically, esp not POCs) can afford to travel to tour schools, which is really the only way you can truly get a feel for how a school’s self-marketing “commitment to diversity” is being put into practice. Of the eleven people whose photos are currently on Bowdoin’s homepage, only two are white men.

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Anonymous wrote:lol, Carleton, Haverford, Tufts, etc are NOT elite schools.

Yes they are