Which elite colleges are actually fun?
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Anonymous
Meh, my DD went to Rice two years ago and a girl in her quad attempted suicide a month into school and they found her in their shared bathroom. Very high stress and very traumatic. She transferred to Michigan after freshman year and is having a much better time. She heard the hurricane was really depressing and there were a few more suicide attempts afterwards. I feel like they hide it really well |
Anonymous
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Williams
Dartmouth Northwestern |
Anonymous
+1 PPs have no sense of humor and wouldn’t have fun on any campus. 
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Anonymous
You're really reaching now. Have you checked out weather for any of the northeastern schools including H? If weather is your criteria, Boston is really no fun. No question that he UChicago of old was miserable. It's just not that school any more (inluding the weather thanks to global warming |
Anonymous
Not PP but I’m not sure why you’re taking offense at this. I’m not that old, and when I visited friends at Chicago this was kind of like a jokey point of pride. It is a more bookish, eggheady school, which I always thought was kind of cool. But get real it’s not Arizona State. I think you’re projecting what YOU think about the school... if your kid is like most there, he or she probably likes it for what it is. |
Anonymous
| Just calling the PP out. |
Anonymous
The whole campus is entitled nerds. They like it that way which is fine but to kids that aren’t all about intellectual talk 24/7, it is boring. The kids know this. You want to have normal college fun, you don’t go to U of Chicago. It is like sending a conservative to Oberlin. They are all crunchy granola, take one shower a week kids, who purposely wear mismatched clothes, and play tambourines and drums in the grassy areas at school. Oh and bring their poop to compost for energy. It is f’ing Trippy there. The 5 and 10 store town up the street makes it even more strange. Some campuses lean a certain way very hard. U of Chicago has a hard niche. You either love it or hate it. |
Anonymous
Williams is not fun. It is boring |
Anonymous
| Nerds are gonna nerd |
Anonymous
This is true. Not the nerd part as much any more but the intellectual intensity would be exhausting if you didn't love it. Not a bland place for sure. May be that's why the UChicago threads engender such strong feelings. |
Anonymous
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I went to Ivy undergrad and grad. I had a good time. And it wasn't that long ago either. Plenty of parties, plenty of all night pizzas and philosophy, plenty of hookups, plenty of fun. And yes, plenty of studying too.
Most of my friends had a great time too. College is always what you make of it. This is true anywhere. If a child is unhappy and bored and doesn't have a social life, then that's a reflection of the child, not the university. |
Anonymous
No. Williams is completely dead socially and all the people do there is study. Dartmouth and NU, yes. Williams has one of the worst social scenes among the LACs |
Anonymous
Chicago can't compare to NE schools like Harvard. More like Boston U, Boston C. |
Anonymous
| Typical Harvard. |
Anonymous
| Princeton! |