Elite schools with down to earth students

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Haverford is not elite

Nor is it affiliated with the Quaker religion anymore.

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Rice

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+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Haverford is not elite

No dog in this fight but it is ranked #16, has an acceptance rate of 18% and a 75th ACT percentile of 34.

Where do you draw the line at elite?

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Bowdoin

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Anonymous wrote:Wesleyan

+1 DC had such a wonderful experience there.

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What a stupid thread. Sorry.

OP said elite, which would mean average ACT in range of 32-35 in most cases.

Can a student with high scores be down to earth? Yes. But having lower than average scores in typical elite school does not make one necessarily down to earth.

Very strange and surprised nobody has pointed this out.

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W&M?

(Runs away - family member is a graduate of W&M and there’s a vibe there)

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+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.

GTFO. I don't think you know anything about Quakers or Quakerism. Please cite your source for the nonsense you spew.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin

NOT Bowdoin- very white, upper class, prep-school, snooty New England brats. Wanna be IVY's that couldn't get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore

Very intense place.

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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.

+1

I am the person who suggests Tufts.

The student body is very cooperative and laid back to our experience.

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+100. It is the Quaker vibe.

Haverford is not elite

No dog in this fight but it is ranked #16, has an acceptance rate of 18% and a 75th ACT percentile of 34.

Where do you draw the line at elite?

Keep up. On DCUM, unless it is Harvard, Yale or Princeton, it isn't elite.

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UCLA, Michigan, Berkeley.

Beyond that, the student body on the whole is too wealthy at most elite colleges to be truly down to earth (yes I know all colleges have some students on financial aid, and some colleges are more generous than others, but neither situation makes up the majority of students at any private college).

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Elite schools in the midwest. Midwestern influence drives down the snob factor. Think Northwestern, Notre Dame, Wash U, etc.

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Part of the problem is that OP said “down to earth” but then seemed to define that as cooperative/supportive.

Some people seem to use those terms as synonymous but they really aren’t (ISTR this came up before on a real estate thread — IMO my neighbors in Bethesda not really “down to earth” but they also aren’t competitive as often caricatured here)

So the answers are different depending on which term you focus on. The 5Cs, Wesleyan etc are cooperative/supportive but maybe not “down to earth”. Northeastern, public colleges etc are down to earth but not necessarily supportive.