Universally beloved schools

[Anonymous]

the Ds: Davidson, Denison, and Dickinson.

anything too high on the rankings list is going to get people wanting to knock it off.

[Anonymous]

Stanford for the most part. Brown is seen as a joke by many. Michigan - you forgot most people who follow sports. They have insufferable fans and even worse ivy reject students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the Ds: Davidson, Denison, and Dickinson.

anything too high on the rankings list is going to get people wanting to knock it off.

One of those three is not like the others. Only WASP and a couple others rank ahead of Davidson.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penn is not universally loved

+1. My kids have a strong dislike for Penn. They think it has a toxic culture with cutthroat kids.

Who TF cares what someone with no current students thinks? I have one there now and one graduated, and another is at Princeton. All ivies are hard. All have a portion of over competitive people. Mine have all loved their schools and thrived in the intellectual environment: the competitive people are a small minority and it is typically people who are not quite academically up to par who act that way. I went to a non-ivy top10 and spouse was at a different ivy than kids: they called it “effortless perfection” in the 90s: the same idea as penn face, the “tradition” of acting fine on the outside while juggling a lot and gunning in classes. Mental health is far more validated and in the open than it was then.
Penn and Princeton now have much more compassion and collaboration among peers than our schools did. The grades are also easier: Cs are rare and As are more common than Bs except for intros maybe.
Lots of schools get hated on DCUM. Everytime it is “toxic” or “cutthroat” it is usually stated by folks whose kids did not get in. In middle and high school 2 of my 3 had serious issues with bullies and also some very dramatic cutthroat issues among the top 10%. Their ivies have been a breeze in comparison. People are actually nice to each other and real.

Appears YOU do considering your 1,000 word essay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone here loves Notre Dame!

Not the bigots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone here loves Notre Dame!

remember when their football coach sent a kid up in a scissor lift during a windstorm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the Ds: Davidson, Denison, and Dickinson.

anything too high on the rankings list is going to get people wanting to knock it off.

One of those three is not like the others. Only WASP and a couple others rank ahead of Davidson.

again, why insist on dividing schools by *another* metric. the question was beloved. not beloved top 40. your brain is broken.

also, just for the hell of it. Davidson is ranked 16th in LACs. so when you say only WASP and a few others, you mean, a dozen + others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schools like Johns Hopkins are respected, but that’s different from being “loved,” which is more of a warm fuzzy feeling.

For warm and fuzzy it is Brown.

Lots of eye-rolling on our Brown tour (2021 or 2022) when all of the tour guides announced their pronouns. Also, a friend's daughter (now graduated) faced disciplinary action there for refusing to state her pronouns in a class group. So no, not warm and fuzzy.

[Anonymous]

lol on Penn being beloved.

Try Brown instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Penn is not universally loved

+1. My kids have a strong dislike for Penn. They think it has a toxic culture with cutthroat kids.

Who TF cares what someone with no current students thinks? I have one there now and one graduated, and another is at Princeton. All ivies are hard. All have a portion of over competitive people. Mine have all loved their schools and thrived in the intellectual environment: the competitive people are a small minority and it is typically people who are not quite academically up to par who act that way. I went to a non-ivy top10 and spouse was at a different ivy than kids: they called it “effortless perfection” in the 90s: the same idea as penn face, the “tradition” of acting fine on the outside while juggling a lot and gunning in classes. Mental health is far more validated and in the open than it was then.
Penn and Princeton now have much more compassion and collaboration among peers than our schools did. The grades are also easier: Cs are rare and As are more common than Bs except for intros maybe.
Lots of schools get hated on DCUM. Everytime it is “toxic” or “cutthroat” it is usually stated by folks whose kids did not get in. In middle and high school 2 of my 3 had serious issues with bullies and also some very dramatic cutthroat issues among the top 10%. Their ivies have been a breeze in comparison. People are actually nice to each other and real.

Appears YOU do considering your 1,000 word essay.

Yes God forbid someone care enough to write a paragraph. This forum is the absolute worst. This poster is promoting kindness so of course gets attacked.

[Anonymous]

Penn State

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools like Johns Hopkins are respected, but that’s different from being “loved,” which is more of a warm fuzzy feeling.

For warm and fuzzy it is Brown.

Lots of eye-rolling on our Brown tour (2021 or 2022) when all of the tour guides announced their pronouns. Also, a friend's daughter (now graduated) faced disciplinary action there for refusing to state her pronouns in a class group. So no, not warm and fuzzy.

FFS, Brown is one of the few schools that didn't do the pronoun nonsense or have a panel of others this year. Maybe it's changed since 2023//2024---but some of the in-state schools were the absolute worst with this stuff. And--the gender inclusive bathrooms have become a place where you go when you want privacy to take a dump. lol. They are literally not even used with the other two gendered bathrooms being used all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools like Johns Hopkins are respected, but that’s different from being “loved,” which is more of a warm fuzzy feeling.

For warm and fuzzy it is Brown.

Lots of eye-rolling on our Brown tour (2021 or 2022) when all of the tour guides announced their pronouns. Also, a friend's daughter (now graduated) faced disciplinary action there for refusing to state her pronouns in a class group. So no, not warm and fuzzy.

made up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools like Johns Hopkins are respected, but that’s different from being “loved,” which is more of a warm fuzzy feeling.

For warm and fuzzy it is Brown.

Lots of eye-rolling on our Brown tour (2021 or 2022) when all of the tour guides announced their pronouns. Also, a friend's daughter (now graduated) faced disciplinary action there for refusing to state her pronouns in a class group. So no, not warm and fuzzy.

made up

Completely. Did not have it on tour, admitted student day or any new student panels. In fact, one of the few places I get emails without a bunch of pronouns at the bottom. Nobody ever asked my kid what pronoun he used and he never had to wear a nametag with it...and this is after touring campuses where students used pronouns for our dog 'what is their name?" an effing dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relatively new to this forum but its very clear that there are some schools that get piled on hatred:
U Chicago, for sending too much mail and financial issues
Northeastern, for managing yield
Harvard, for being Harvard
Columbia, activism
JHU/CMU (stressful/depressing)

And everyone loves:
Penn
Michigan

what else?

There is a long and distinguished line of people who hate Penn and/or Michigan. Don't know many people who hate any of the service academies (except for the "beat army/navy" stuff which isn't really hate).