Non-grinder well adjusted social T25 school??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown - grading policy makes it less stressful for the students

Grading policy = you get an A

You clearly have no experience w/ this school. So far off base. Lots of students not getting As. Also, kid needs to be a serious grinder to get in, especially if female. Like 2.5% admit RD for female.

Highest average GPAs in the U.S.

https://ripplematch.com/insights/the-top-15-universities-with-the-highest-average-gpas-4f4b544d/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown - grading policy makes it less stressful for the students

Grading policy = you get an A

You clearly have no experience w/ this school. So far off base. Lots of students not getting As. Also, kid needs to be a serious grinder to get in, especially if female. Like 2.5% admit RD for female.

Highest average GPAs in the U.S.

https://ripplematch.com/insights/the-top-15-universities-with-the-highest-average-gpas-4f4b544d/

Yeah Brown is hard to get into and even harder to fail from.

[Anonymous]

Carleton

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, if your kid wants to get good grades in college, they will have to do some work. Does that make them a grinder? Depends on the major and ability to handle the load.

NP: I think of grinders as students that treat college like a job (e.g., prestige, ambition, money) and present as pre-professionals. I think that is different than someone who is smart, nerdy, or a geek that earns good grades but loves the topic or loves to learn. Nothing wrong with both, but I see the populations as different.

Your perspective is pretty obnoxious as many kids don’t have much of a safety net after college and they need to be focused on landing a well paying job after graduation. They might be pre-professional out of necessity. Why label them negatively.

Because it’s just no fun for naturally bright kids, who’ve been dying to meet other bright, intellectually alive kids, to get into a selective school and find out that most of the other kids are a bunch of boring, dutiful robots.

[Anonymous]

The sweet spot for these criteria is slightly below the top 25 or 30. Lehigh, Wake, UMiami, Boston College, Wisconsin, Tulane. No shortage of really smart students at them, without the king-of-the-world egos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, if your kid wants to get good grades in college, they will have to do some work. Does that make them a grinder? Depends on the major and ability to handle the load.

NP: I think of grinders as students that treat college like a job (e.g., prestige, ambition, money) and present as pre-professionals. I think that is different than someone who is smart, nerdy, or a geek that earns good grades but loves the topic or loves to learn. Nothing wrong with both, but I see the populations as different.

Your perspective is pretty obnoxious as many kids don’t have much of a safety net after college and they need to be focused on landing a well paying job after graduation. They might be pre-professional out of necessity. Why label them negatively.

Because it’s just no fun for naturally bright kids, who’ve been dying to meet other bright, intellectually alive kids, to get into a selective school and find out that most of the other kids are a bunch of boring, dutiful robots.

Your post sounds like it was written by a teen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??

I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan

Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?

USC is not a T25 school.

It's ranked 25 currently. However I don't think for long.

[Anonymous]

“Your post sounds like it was written by a teen.”

Yeah, a teen or a sane person with any experience with the T10.

[Anonymous]

T25 for what major?

I'd focus more on the top 25 in your DC's specific area of interest. That should open up the list a bit more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the T30 schools are grinders.

+1

+2 , used to think Wake Forest was not but DC is being grinded in STEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sweet spot for these criteria is slightly below the top 25 or 30. Lehigh, Wake, UMiami, Boston College, Wisconsin, Tulane. No shortage of really smart students at them, without the king-of-the-world egos.

COMPLETELY agree with this take.

Kid's at Vandy and wishes sometimes he was at Wake -- which he liked a lot more during tours. I think it was probably his top choice but he went with the much higher-ranked school. Which, as it turns out, is packed to the rafters with grinders despite what people are saying here

[Anonymous]

I think all of those schools listed are grinders

[Anonymous]

I think the major really matters here. Anyone who shared their experience should add the major to give more context. Engineering is grindy everywhere, communications is grindy almost nowhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sweet spot for these criteria is slightly below the top 25 or 30. Lehigh, Wake, UMiami, Boston College, Wisconsin, Tulane. No shortage of really smart students at them, without the king-of-the-world egos.

COMPLETELY agree with this take.

Kid's at Vandy and wishes sometimes he was at Wake -- which he liked a lot more during tours. I think it was probably his top choice but he went with the much higher-ranked school. Which, as it turns out, is packed to the rafters with grinders despite what people are saying here

Fit over rankings, will dcum ever learn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the T30 schools are grinders.

+1

+2 my kid is at one of these and it’s a total grind. If not at a party, studying.