Good, fun colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claremont McKenna and Colgate have great social cultures for a LAC. Vanderbilt too but it is academically a pressure cooker these days- lots of grade deflation

Can you explain? DC is seriously considering Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt is tough academically. No sugarcoated grade inflation like is the case at Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, etc. According to Niche study, Vanderbilt students self-stated that they had the most rigorous workload out of a listing of the top 25 universities.

Just search the topic and you'll see a lot of threads on CollegeConfidential about it

[Anonymous]

UVA
Tulane
GWU
SMU
Indiana

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore and Uchicago

We should go drinking - you're funny!

[Anonymous]

Tulane has tons of fun, great city, fun students, but academics are weak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tulane has tons of fun, great city, fun students, but academics are weak.

Tulane is a top 50 school, super good academics. What are you talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tulane has tons of fun, great city, fun students, but academics are weak.

Tulane is a top 50 school, super good academics. What are you talking about?

Ha ha!! Tulane is know as the party school which is why they throw merit $ to top students to go there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt is tough academically. No sugarcoated grade inflation like is the case at Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, etc. According to Niche study, Vanderbilt students self-stated that they had the most rigorous workload out of a listing of the top 25 universities.

Just search the topic and you'll see a lot of threads on CollegeConfidential about it

And "Work Forest" - they try to flunk kids out of Business and Pre-Med to switch to Communications, English and History. No grade inflation like many other colleges -----even though it obviously does not attract Ivy League caliber.

[Anonymous]

Rice

[Anonymous]

University of Florida.

It was paradise for me. Tough academically but not impossible, great weather, great sports, an hour from the ocean. I easily got jobs in Florida after graduating, and that job experience was a springboard to elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore and Uchicago

Heeeheeehee.

Parent of a UofC student

How 'not fun' is u of c ? It's my DD's top choice. She does just study all the time, but it seems like college should be some fun.
We visited Hopkins and that seemed to be the least fun college of all time .

Where would be a U of Chicago alternative school that would be a bit of fun?

UofC is "where fun goes to die." I went there for grad school, my wife works there now. It is the well accepted joke among current students and alumni. Its also a fantastic school.