Non-grinder well adjusted social T25 school??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??

I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan

Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?

Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.

Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.

Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.

You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.

Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??

I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan

Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?

Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.

Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.

Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.

You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.

Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.

Most popular majors at Northwestern are like communications, psychology, theater.
Enough said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??

I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan

Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?

Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.

Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.

Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.

You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.

Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.

Most popular majors at Northwestern are like communications, psychology, theater.
Enough said.

I think that your guess regarding the most popular majors at Northwestern University are a bit off.

Economics may be the most popular undergraduate major at NU, followed by digital communications & media,then psychology, then biology, poly science & government, computer science, then neuroscience/neurobiology.

Northwestern's undergrad is divided into 6 schools: Engineering, arts & sciences, communications, journalism, School of Education & Social policy, and the school of music. The school of communication and the journalism school are both regarded as the best in the country, if not in the world.

Many high school college counselors have shared that their students who have matriculated at Northwestern University find the school to be too intense & too demanding compared to their students who have matriculated at other Top 15 National Universities. Of course, this is anecdotal information, but it is something to consider.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??

I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan

Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?

Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.

Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.

Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.

You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.

Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.

Most popular majors at Northwestern are like communications, psychology, theater.
Enough said.

Yes, "enough said" to illustrate your lack of knowledge about this school.

[Anonymous]

What are T25 or T30 schools? Based on US News Ranking or some other ranking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are T25 or T30 schools? Based on US News Ranking or some other ranking?

Based on my ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are T25 or T30 schools? Based on US News Ranking or some other ranking?

Excellent & appropriate question.

Top 25 Colleges & Universities arguably consists of at least 30 schools:

The 8 Ivy League schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, & Cornell

Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke & CalTech.

The remaining 11 spots can be filled by: Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashUStl, UCLA, UCal-Berkeley, Williams College, Swarthmore College, Amherst College, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, the USNA, USMA at West Point, the USAFA, maybe Wellesley College, maybe Pomona College, maybe Notre Dame, maybe Georgetown, maybe Michigan, maybe Emory, & maybe USC.

[Anonymous]

"Maybe" Georgetown? When is the last time it was not ranked T25?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are T25 or T30 schools? Based on US News Ranking or some other ranking?

Excellent & appropriate question.

Top 25 Colleges & Universities arguably consists of at least 30 schools:

The 8 Ivy League schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, & Cornell

Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke & CalTech.

The remaining 11 spots can be filled by: Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashUStl, UCLA, UCal-Berkeley, Williams College, Swarthmore College, Amherst College, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, the USNA, USMA at West Point, the USAFA, maybe Wellesley College, maybe Pomona College, maybe Notre Dame, maybe Georgetown, maybe Michigan, maybe Emory, & maybe USC.

Certainly UVA is in the running for the remaining 11. (No dog in the fight - I went to W&M)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Maybe" Georgetown? When is the last time it was not ranked T25?

Many people use “T25” as a way of referring to smaller, private universities that have a national draw, teach a broad curriculum, and aren’t Catholic. A poster like OP doesn’t mean a tech school like CalTech or MIT. Publics like Michigan are too large; UVA is right on the edge. Georgetown is on the edge because it’s Catholic the way UVA is public; Notre Dame, which is ranked higher at the moment, is more Catholic and so definitely out. It’s not really about the exact number of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??

I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan

Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?

Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.

Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.

Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.

You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.

Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.

Most popular majors at Northwestern are like communications, psychology, theater.
Enough said.

I think that your guess regarding the most popular majors at Northwestern University are a bit off.

Economics may be the most popular undergraduate major at NU, followed by digital communications & media,then psychology, then biology, poly science & government, computer science, then neuroscience/neurobiology.

Northwestern's undergrad is divided into 6 schools: Engineering, arts & sciences, communications, journalism, School of Education & Social policy, and the school of music. The school of communication and the journalism school are both regarded as the best in the country, if not in the world.

Many high school college counselors have shared that their students who have matriculated at Northwestern University find the school to be too intense & too demanding compared to their students who have matriculated at other Top 15 National Universities. Of course, this is anecdotal information, but it is something to consider.

Niche.com confirms your ranking of majors:
https://www.niche.com/colleges/northwestern-university/majors/

[Anonymous]

The wording of the OP invites “ridicule”? Are you responding while sitting on your front stoop in 1955 Brooklyn? Yo!Lady, I got yer top 25 right here!

How bout you make your parents think they didn’t raise a pathetic bully and say the OP invited “disagreement”?

[Anonymous]

Dartmouth, Northwestern and Duke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Maybe" Georgetown? When is the last time it was not ranked T25?

USN&WR

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are T25 or T30 schools? Based on US News Ranking or some other ranking?

USN&WR

https://www.usnews.com/be...iversities