nonpressure cooker/well adjusted yet prestigious schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College is a source of pressure and major or track add more to it but student themselves are part of the pressure as a lot of pressure is rooted into their ability to handle rigor, workload, friendships, parties, drinking, weed, dating, time management and responsibility.

Rice, Vanderbilt, Yale, and Brown rank as relaxed and supportive places for majority but obviously you'll find people who can manage to be miserable there as well.

Sounds like these schools are mentioned a lot here, along with certain (?) SLACs?
Here is the list from earlier in this post back in the spring - what seems to be missing?

Rice
Brown
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
UVA
Emory
USC
UNC
Wisconsin
Wake
Santa Clara
UMiami
Tulane
Davidson
Bates
Colby
Bucknell
Carleton

Thanks for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College is a source of pressure and major or track add more to it but student themselves are part of the pressure as a lot of pressure is rooted into their ability to handle rigor, workload, friendships, parties, drinking, weed, dating, time management and responsibility.

Rice, Vanderbilt, Yale, and Brown rank as relaxed and supportive places for majority but obviously you'll find people who can manage to be miserable there as well.

Sounds like these schools are mentioned a lot here, along with certain (?) SLACs?
Here is the list from earlier in this post back in the spring - what seems to be missing?

Rice
Brown
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
UVA
Emory
USC
UNC
Wisconsin
Wake
Santa Clara
UMiami
Tulane
Davidson
Bates
Colby
Bucknell
Carleton

Thanks for this.

Some of these schools are not "social" or extroverted? Rice? Emory?
Where's Duke??? Northwestern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:College is a source of pressure and major or track add more to it but student themselves are part of the pressure as a lot of pressure is rooted into their ability to handle rigor, workload, friendships, parties, drinking, weed, dating, time management and responsibility.

Rice, Vanderbilt, Yale, and Brown rank as relaxed and supportive places for majority but obviously you'll find people who can manage to be miserable there as well.

Sounds like these schools are mentioned a lot here, along with certain (?) SLACs?
Here is the list from earlier in this post back in the spring - what seems to be missing?

Rice
Brown
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
UVA
Emory
USC
UNC
Wisconsin
Wake
Santa Clara
UMiami
Tulane
Davidson
Bates
Colby
Bucknell
Carleton

Thanks for this.

Some of these schools are not "social" or extroverted? Rice? Emory?
Where's Duke??? Northwestern?

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every top 25 school is going to have some pressure. But there's a difference between what is internally driven and what is externally driven. Most of those kids expect a lot of themselves and that has its own dynamic.

But some schools really seem to ramp the stress up. I'm thinking Carnegie Mellon. I'm thinking Cornell engineering.

Some schools are difficult and stressful for everyone. MIT. CalTech.

Some schools are an easy glide. Harvard. Brown.

Some schools are walking on egg shells all the time kind of schools. Stanford. Berkeley.

And some schools are difficult and challenging but work on creating a healthy environment. Rice, Yale, and Notre Dame come to mind with their residential colleges.

The most balanced schools seem to be the three above - Rice, Yale, Notre Dame - and Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt.

The pressure is there. No avoiding that.

There's no slacker school. But there's a difference with how each school manages things.

princeton is a ridiculous pressure cooker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the T25 I think Brown, Vandy, UNC, UVA, maybe Emory are your best bet for what you’re looking for.
In the T30 UF, UC Davis, USC

My DC is first year at UVA and although they have to put in more study time than in high school, they have plenty of time to participate in clubs, exercise, and socialize. It's a pretty good balance so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every top 25 school is going to have some pressure. But there's a difference between what is internally driven and what is externally driven. Most of those kids expect a lot of themselves and that has its own dynamic.

But some schools really seem to ramp the stress up. I'm thinking Carnegie Mellon. I'm thinking Cornell engineering.

Some schools are difficult and stressful for everyone. MIT. CalTech.

Some schools are an easy glide. Harvard. Brown.

Some schools are walking on egg shells all the time kind of schools. Stanford. Berkeley.

And some schools are difficult and challenging but work on creating a healthy environment. Rice, Yale, and Notre Dame come to mind with their residential colleges.

The most balanced schools seem to be the three above - Rice, Yale, Notre Dame - and Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt.

The pressure is there. No avoiding that.

There's no slacker school. But there's a difference with how each school manages things.

princeton is a ridiculous pressure cooker

I keep hearing this recently. I fell in love with it in HS. Never applied. It was my kid's first choice- was WL RD so ended up elsewhere--which may be a blessing because would not have liked to continue that trend from HS.

Is this just the math/stem/cs--or is it that way for all disciplines?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every top 25 school is going to have some pressure. But there's a difference between what is internally driven and what is externally driven. Most of those kids expect a lot of themselves and that has its own dynamic.

But some schools really seem to ramp the stress up. I'm thinking Carnegie Mellon. I'm thinking Cornell engineering.

Some schools are difficult and stressful for everyone. MIT. CalTech.

Some schools are an easy glide. Harvard. Brown.

Some schools are walking on egg shells all the time kind of schools. Stanford. Berkeley.

And some schools are difficult and challenging but work on creating a healthy environment. Rice, Yale, and Notre Dame come to mind with their residential colleges.

The most balanced schools seem to be the three above - Rice, Yale, Notre Dame - and Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt.

The pressure is there. No avoiding that.

There's no slacker school. But there's a difference with how each school manages things.

princeton is a ridiculous pressure cooker

I keep hearing this recently. I fell in love with it in HS. Never applied. It was my kid's first choice- was WL RD so ended up elsewhere--which may be a blessing because would not have liked to continue that trend from HS.

Is this just the math/stem/cs--or is it that way for all disciplines?

https://www.reddit.com/r/princeton/comments/1b98rci/princeton_warning/?rdt=39382