Colleges with happy kids

[Anonymous]

Stanford
Maryland
Duke
UCLA
Michigan
GT
N'western
UNC
UF
UTx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stanford
Maryland
Duke
UCLA
Michigan
GT
N'western
UNC
UF
UTx

Maryland?

[Anonymous]

Easy. Auburn!

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=happiest-students

[Anonymous]

U if Arizona. Hard to be sad when you’re at a resort.

[Anonymous]

This is 100% kid specific not school related.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:VT, JMU

+100

JMU seemed like another NOVA high school on the tour. Grade 13 my DD says it’s called. I really am glad she didn’t end up there. Not sure about the happiness factor, but if your DC liked high school looks like a good continuation.

What HS has 720 acres and 20,000 students? If a kid goes to JMU and it feels like grade 13, that’s on them. It’s not a feature of the school.

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The PP is the usual malcontent who has some kind of weird hangup about JMU. It's a great school full of smart and nice students. I guess that annoys some people.

Absolutely no disrespect to you or JMU, but for students of NOVA hs, JMU does have the reputation of being high school 2.0. It’s a great school with great students, but many of the kids trend to be the same “type” that maybe go to college and hang out with the same group at JMU. You see it in the parents pics from tailgates etc. There is nothing wrong with this, but for kids that want to sorta start fresh or not see the same groups/ JMU as seen as a school to avoid.

Hmm. I've had two kids attend JMU and both said they *never* saw anyone from high school, unless they sought them out (which they didn't).
DP

I second this. My daughter never sees the other 5 or 6 students from high school, and she absolutely loves it there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easy. Auburn!

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=happiest-students

Can you elaborate on why so happy? How is it socially if your DC doesn’t have hs friends attending. TIA

[Anonymous]

California, baby!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor has a kid who is miserable at Brown, wants to transfer. A friend of my DS who does not know this kid is very happy at Brown. We know happy Penn and CMU kids, though I am sure there are unhappy ones. We knew a kid miserable at W&L , transferred to Vandy and loved it, and we have known some who hate it.
None of this is the schools, it is the individual plus the element of expectation vs reality of college, especially competitive ones.

Yes. This. My kid is very happy at Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor has a kid who is miserable at Brown, wants to transfer. A friend of my DS who does not know this kid is very happy at Brown. We know happy Penn and CMU kids, though I am sure there are unhappy ones. We knew a kid miserable at W&L , transferred to Vandy and loved it, and we have known some who hate it.
None of this is the schools, it is the individual plus the element of expectation vs reality of college, especially competitive ones.

Yes. This. My kid is very happy at Chicago.

Same! My DD is a 1st year at UChicago and is so happy. She has challenging classes and loves the other students. It probably also helps that she has been dating the sweetest young man since early November.

UChicago emphasized a few times during orientation how kind the class of 2028 is. I thought it was just a line, but my DD feels like it is really the personality of the class.

[Anonymous]

Most. All, really. But any elite school is filled with people who adore it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easy. Auburn!

https://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings/?rankings=happiest-students

Can you elaborate on why so happy? How is it socially if your DC doesn’t have hs friends attending. TIA

You make new friends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most. All, really. But any elite school is filled with people who adore it.

This isn’t about “elite” schools. In fact, the kids I know who seem happiest don’t attend “elite” universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stanford
Maryland
Duke
UCLA
Michigan
GT
N'western
UNC
UF
UTx

Nobody was happy in grad school at UCLA. Happiness in the smaller CA schools though!
Also not Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U if Arizona. Hard to be sad when you’re at a resort.

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