Elite schools with down to earth students

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern

+1

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

WashUn and Northwestern yes, Notre Dame and UChicago definitely not.

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

WashUn and Northwestern yes, Notre Dame and UChicago definitely not.

Didn't mention Chicago. Notre Dame has a very friendly and collaborative vibe.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd imagine a highly competitive public. Private universities are chock full of privileged brats. At least mine was.

Purdue for STEM, eg, yes. UVA, no, as this board shows so much pomp and snootiness and weird obsession with reputation.

You HAVE to know that at a large public university like UVA, the people posting on here represent a tiny fraction of students and that it, like every other large public university, draws a huge range of students from around Virginia and the country. Come on.

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Most schools will have a portion of the student body with scores in that range. Schools with too many at that level will tend to be more cut throat as everyone is STILL competing with each other for "top" whatever have you.

Same goes for less elite regional schools or schools where people are competing in the same job market (e.g. Wall Street, or best firms in Atlanta/Dallas/Chicago etc.). Schools with a wide range of students, either in interest or ability or location of job focus, will be more down to earth. This is one reason why schools like to recruit students from all over -- it spreads out the competition. Similarly, if a school is "known for" something and has most students in that field, it will be less down to earth -- they are all competing for the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+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.

Don't know what you mean by "has no affiliation with Quakerism" and it is nonsectarian...but it's Quaker roots are strong and it is unapologetic about it...

https://www.haverford.edu/sites/default/files/Office/President/Haverford-Quaker-Elements.pdf

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

Northwestern and WashU are both very intense and cutthroat. not laid back at all.

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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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Uninformed take on Borodin. What are you, 12?

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore

Very intense place.

+1 Great school with brilliant students but literally the polar opposite of down to earth.

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Caltech and MIT
Midwestern schools

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

Northwestern and WashU are both very intense and cutthroat. not laid back at all.

Never said they were laid back. The word I think I used above is friendly and collaborative. That's not necessarily laid back. Many of these kids were valedictorians in their high schools. That's not laid back.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+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.

Not remotely true. We know all of the elites, many of which have been mentioned here.

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Anonymous wrote:Haverford

+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.

Not remotely true. We know all of the elites, many of which have been mentioned here.

Then answer the bolded question, please.

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Rice. DD just graduated. What an amazing place! She was not STEM, either...