Elite schools with down to earth students

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NOVA

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Why is it not the same at Sidwell? Location?

People don't go to Sidwell because of any Quaker values/policies/vibe...when you hear about why people send their kids there, it's about the academics (and prestige, no doubt, has a lot to do with it).

Haverford absolutely has first-rate academics but it is a Quaker institution at its core...and it IS what attracts many students...

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts

No. This actually made me LOL.

DP I graduated from Tufts and found it to be a very cooperative, non-competitive environment. Not sure where you are getting your information from or if you simply have an axe to grind.

I don’t have an axe to grind, but your information is clearly out of date. My daughter has two friends there and hears plenty about the current atmosphere there.

Okay then I’m sure your second-hand anecdotes must be more accurate then my first hand experience. Whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:definitely MIT

Agree although startups are ruining this. In general STEM elite schools will be more like this because the program is fairer and just really hard for all.

Also agree about Midwestern SLACs. I know several Powell from Carleton, Grinnell, Oberlin that are the nicest people but so effective and brilliant.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd imagine a highly competitive public. Private universities are chock full of privileged brats. At least mine was.

Purdue for STEM, eg, yes. UVA, no, as this board shows so much pomp and snootiness and weird obsession with reputation.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd imagine a highly competitive public. Private universities are chock full of privileged brats. At least mine was.

I agree with this. My DC is at UCLA and I don't think any school except Cal can match the diversity at this top school. Every kind of diversity. And it's an academic powerhouse.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Why is it not the same at Sidwell? Location?

People don't go to Sidwell because of any Quaker values/policies/vibe...when you hear about why people send their kids there, it's about the academics (and prestige, no doubt, has a lot to do with it).

Haverford absolutely has first-rate academics but it is a Quaker institution at its core...and it IS what attracts many students...
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False. There are only 75,000 Quakers left in the US and they are too old to have college-aged kids. Ever see the deserted Quaker church in Nantucket? It’s a dying religion. Also Haverford, like most Protestant missionary training schools started in the US, no longer has any affiliation with Quakerism.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Why is it not the same at Sidwell? Location?

People don't go to Sidwell because of any Quaker values/policies/vibe...when you hear about why people send their kids there, it's about the academics (and prestige, no doubt, has a lot to do with it).

Haverford absolutely has first-rate academics but it is a Quaker institution at its core...and it IS what attracts many students...
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False. There are only 75,000 Quakers left in the US and they are too old to have college-aged kids. Ever see the deserted Quaker church in Nantucket? It’s a dying religion. Also Haverford, like most Protestant missionary training schools started in the US, no longer has any affiliation with Quakerism.

DP. My DC has a friend there now who may/or may not have gotten a bump for being Quaker, but certainly sought out Haveford for the affiliation. Just find it hard to believe that this is one of the only such students and also one of only two people I know who was accepted that year.

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Grinnell

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford absolutely has first-rate academics but it is a Quaker institution at its core...and it IS what attracts many students...
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False. There are only 75,000 Quakers left in the US and they are too old to have college-aged kids. Ever see the deserted Quaker church in Nantucket? It’s a dying religion. Also Haverford, like most Protestant missionary training schools started in the US, no longer has any affiliation with Quakerism.

DD applied to Haverford in part because its ethos and connection to Quakerism appealed to her even though we're not Quaker. Many schools no longer have the initial religious affiliations they once had, but I'm sure many of them still bear an imprint from their origins.

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Smith & some of the all female schools.

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Pomona and the other 5C schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Haverford is not elite

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford absolutely has first-rate academics but it is a Quaker institution at its core...and it IS what attracts many students...
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False. There are only 75,000 Quakers left in the US and they are too old to have college-aged kids. Ever see the deserted Quaker church in Nantucket? It’s a dying religion. Also Haverford, like most Protestant missionary training schools started in the US, no longer has any affiliation with Quakerism.

DD applied to Haverford in part because its ethos and connection to Quakerism appealed to her even though we're not Quaker. Many schools no longer have the initial religious affiliations they once had, but I'm sure many of them still bear an imprint from their origins.

+100
Both of my kids were attracted to Haverford (but ultimately did not go there) because of the Quaker values and we're not Quaker...and the kids of friends that I know who have gone there were attracted for the same reason (also not Quaker)...and, to the OP's original question, very down-to-earth kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Haverford is not elite

OP asked about schools with average ACT of 31/32...Haverford's 25th-75th percentile range is 32-34...that may not be 'elite" to you but it is in the ballpark of what the OP was asking for (more selective if anything).