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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elite schools in the midwest.  Midwestern influence drives down the snob factor.  Think Northwestern, Notre Dame, Wash U, etc.[/quote]

WashUn and Northwestern yes, Notre Dame and UChicago definitely not. [/quote]

Agree!  I want my kid to go to school in the Midwest.  [/quote]

The kids I know who landed at Northwestern, UChicago and Michigan from either NOVA or NYC all spoke about how they appreciated the mellowing and wholesome effect of the Midwest, even if most of them returned to the east coast after graduating. Definitely still a lot of pretense and at times just as intense as any top school, but I think relatively less so.[/quote]

Went to UChicago undergrad and graduate school. When I attended, it was full of very down to earth kids.  Hope it still is.  
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I think the down-to-earth kids are at the Big 10 schools, not Chicago or Oberlin.

To whit, the only kid from my DC-area school who went to Chicago was a guy who had long flowing red hair, smoked lots of pot, and wrote poetry, and the kid who went to Oberlin begged our 9th grade English teacher to allow him to stage an impromptu theatre-in-the-round reading of Sartre's "No Exit" (a cheerleader in the class and I sat back and tried to blow spitballs into his butt crack, which was visible from the back of his jeans as he forced the class to explore existentialism instead of Shakespeare).  [/quote]

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