"Bro quotient" high and low?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).

No - OP in this thread summarized the intent. An East Coast "bro" would typically be a white male from a suburb like Upper Merion or Mt. Lebanon, PA, Great Neck, NY, Bethesda, MD or Vienna, VA.

Yep. Think backwards ball caps, an affinity for crappy beer, moderate marijuana use, ESPN junkies, listen to Dave Mathews Bland (typo intentional), unironic fist bumps, etc.

NPR had a funny column about Bros a while back.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/06/21/193881290/jeah-we-mapped-out-the-four-basic-aspects-of-being-a-bro

The Venn diagram seems pretty accurate to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).

No - OP in this thread summarized the intent. An East Coast "bro" would typically be a white male from a suburb like Upper Merion or Mt. Lebanon, PA, Great Neck, NY, Bethesda, MD or Vienna, VA.

Yep. Think backwards ball caps, an affinity for crappy beer, moderate marijuana use, ESPN junkies, listen to Dave Mathews Bland (typo intentional), unironic fist bumps, etc.

Were you following me around college in the early 90's? You just described all the guys I dated back then (and I ended up marrying one who was not personally or professionally harmed by his high-bro qualities!).

[Anonymous]

A significant number of the high school boys in these areas will be well versed in TFM jargon by the time they are 16.

Sad to have seen recently that some boys who were Cub Scouts and played youth soccer badly and as inattentively as one might expect not too long ago now seem to spend half their waking hours tweeting each other about chill-pull ratios and other such nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).

No - OP in this thread summarized the intent. An East Coast "bro" would typically be a white male from a suburb like Upper Merion or Mt. Lebanon, PA, Great Neck, NY, Bethesda, MD or Vienna, VA.

Yep. Think backwards ball caps, an affinity for crappy beer, moderate marijuana use, ESPN junkies, listen to Dave Mathews Bland (typo intentional), unironic fist bumps, etc.

Were you following me around college in the early 90's? You just described all the guys I dated back then (and I ended up marrying one who was not personally or professionally harmed by his high-bro qualities!).

Does your husband now wear khakis and polo shirts on the weekend? Does he golf with his buddies? Smoke the occasional cigar and still listen to Dave Mathews? All hallmarks of the bro as an adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another poster coined the term "bro quotient" defined (by her) as:

"Low bro quotient" = quiet schools with no frats, there are few parties, and where no one cares about either college or professional sports.

What top schools stand out for exceptional low or high bro quotient?

Among Top 25 schools, I'd say Duke, USC, UVA, Vanderbilt and maybe Dartmouth have the highest bro quotient.

Chicago, Cal Tech, MIT, Johns Hopkins are probably lowest.

Yes, Chicago, CalTech, MIT, Johns Hopkins, plus Harvard and Yale (as someone else noted), Columbia, stanford, and hell, probably almost all of the top 15 schools except for Duke and Virginia (is Virginia in top 15?). This Q does seem to get asked a lot. oP, if your kid gets into a top school, it is not likely to have a high "bro" quotient.

[Anonymous]

I would have thought Hopkins, being mostly male and having a LAX tradition, was moderately to high bro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have thought Hopkins, being mostly male and having a LAX tradition, was moderately to high bro.

The lax team is minuscule compared to the large contingent of Asian science nerds.

[Anonymous]

Stanford? Full of jocks, no? I thought it had a mild bro vibe when I was there a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another poster coined the term "bro quotient" defined (by her) as:

"Low bro quotient" = quiet schools with no frats, there are few parties, and where no one cares about either college or professional sports.

What top schools stand out for exceptional low or high bro quotient?

Among Top 25 schools, I'd say Duke, USC, UVA, Vanderbilt and maybe Dartmouth have the highest bro quotient.

Chicago, Cal Tech, MIT, Johns Hopkins are probably lowest.

Yes, Chicago, CalTech, MIT, Johns Hopkins, plus Harvard and Yale (as someone else noted), Columbia, stanford, and hell, probably almost all of the top 15 schools except for Duke and Virginia (is Virginia in top 15?). This Q does seem to get asked a lot. oP, if your kid gets into a top school, it is not likely to have a high "bro" quotient.

Stanford, Duke, Vandy, ND, USC, UCLA, Dartmouth, Cal, UCLA, Cornell and Wake are all different from the more nerdy schools

[Anonymous]

I'd add Penn and Georgetown to the non-nerdy list

[Anonymous]

Princeton has its share of bros including a fair number of Laxers from the Apha schools (Landon, Prep, Gonzaga). Certainly closer to Duke that it is to MIT, Chicago or Cal Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Princeton has its share of bros including a fair number of Laxers from the Apha schools (Landon, Prep, Gonzaga). Certainly closer to Duke that it is to MIT, Chicago or Cal Tech.

c'mon. if you get in to Princeton you're going to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Princeton has its share of bros including a fair number of Laxers from the Apha schools (Landon, Prep, Gonzaga). Certainly closer to Duke that it is to MIT, Chicago or Cal Tech.

They used to be found at Cottage Club and Tiger Inn. Maybe they still are. There are enough of them to scare off some kids from going there, just as at Duke.

OTOH, the math/physics/engineering kids are there, too. Many come from schools like TJ, Stuyvesant, Bronx HS of Science, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton has its share of bros including a fair number of Laxers from the Apha schools (Landon, Prep, Gonzaga). Certainly closer to Duke that it is to MIT, Chicago or Cal Tech.

They used to be found at Cottage Club and Tiger Inn. Maybe they still are. There are enough of them to scare off some kids from going there, just as at Duke.

OTOH, the math/physics/engineering kids are there, too. Many come from schools like TJ, Stuyvesant, Bronx HS of Science, etc.

Every Top 25 school has low bro students, especially schools with strong STEM programs. Even at the Top 25 schools that have a high Bro quotient, the % of Bros is not nearly as great as you might think. The Bros just have a bigger footprint. Strong Football and/or Lax programs generally attract Bros.

[Anonymous]

This seems like a weird topic for a parent to bring up OP. Are you a college student?