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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every top 25 school is going to have some pressure. But there's a difference between what is internally driven and what is externally driven. Most of those kids expect a lot of themselves and that has its own dynamic.

But some schools really seem to ramp the stress up. I'm thinking Carnegie Mellon. I'm thinking Cornell engineering.

Some schools are difficult and stressful for everyone. MIT. CalTech.

Some schools are an easy glide. Harvard. Brown.

Some schools are walking on egg shells all the time kind of schools. Stanford. Berkeley.

And some schools are difficult and challenging but work on creating a healthy environment. Rice, Yale, and Notre Dame come to mind with their residential colleges.

The most balanced schools seem to be the three above - Rice, Yale, Notre Dame - and Princeton, Duke, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt.

The pressure is there. No avoiding that.

There's no slacker school. But there's a difference with how each school manages things.

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My kid is junior at Yale now and I think would agree with your assessment. This is not to say kids are never stressed out (mine for sure has her moments!) but a lot of that is because they all want to do so much - everyone seems to double major, do tons of ECs etc. There is a strong collaborative culture at the school and that makes a huge difference. Also pretty vibrant social and cultural life. School spirit is really strong there, kids seem to love it. I went to more of a “pressure cooker” school with pretty low school spirit and am so glad dd in a much happier environment.[/quote]

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