"Bro quotient" high and low?

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Columbia/Barnard are low.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

I'd add Chevy Chase, MD and McLean, VA (and parts of Northwest DC adjacent to the MD border) as suburban areas that produce "bros" - basically the wealthiest parts of the Northeast

[Anonymous]

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

It is an you're right. OP has chosen to change the definition but the fact remains that 'low-bro' means what it means. Maybe OP should say 'low brow.'

[Anonymous]

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?).

It is an you're right. OP has chosen to change the definition but the fact remains that 'low-bro' means what it means. Maybe OP should say 'low brow.'

Sorry, I can't keep up with the definitions. I just referred myself to Urban Dictionary. I'm just old.

[Anonymous]

It amazes me how obsessed some of y'all are with this. Totally strange.

[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.

Wake Forrest is among the highest in the Top 25

[Anonymous]

Havard and Yale are VERY low on the bro scale Princeton would be higher.

[Anonymous]

Carnegie Mellon - top 25 school, not bro-ish at all.

Swarthmore - getting slightly more bro-ish every year but no where near as bro-ish as NESCAC.

I wonder what it's like out in pomona.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how obsessed some of y'all are with this. Totally strange.

Why is that strange? My DC wanted to stay far away from any colleges which were "high bro". Frats, LAX, etc. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how obsessed some of y'all are with this. Totally strange.

Why is that strange? My DC wanted to stay far away from any colleges which were "high bro". Frats, LAX, etc. No thanks.

+1 many people want to go to a low bro school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and Yale are VERY low on the bro scale Princeton would be higher.

Yes, as Harvard, it's pretty low, but in my time at Harvard about 10 years ago, we would always party hard with the Wellesley, BC, BU, MIT, and Tufts kids. Can't speak too much about Yale, but I do know that there aren't very many colleges around New Haven.

Penn also has a high bro-quotient.

[Anonymous]

We are looking at a W&M as a low "bro" option. Not "top 25," but pretty close, and seems like a great fit for my DC's personality.