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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College is a source of pressure and major or track add more to it but student themselves are part of the pressure as a lot of pressure is rooted into their ability to handle rigor, workload, friendships, parties, drinking, weed, dating, time management and responsibility.

[b]Rice, Vanderbilt, Yale, and Brown[/b] rank as relaxed and supportive places for majority but obviously you'll find people who can manage to be miserable there as well.[/quote]

Sounds like these schools are mentioned a lot here, along with certain (?) SLACs?
Here is the list from earlier in this post back in the spring - what seems to be missing?

Rice
Brown
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
UVA
Emory
USC
UNC
Wisconsin
Wake
Santa Clara
UMiami
Tulane
Davidson
Bates
Colby
Bucknell
Carleton[/quote]

This is a good list. But anyone getting into Rice, Brown, Vanderbilt, and Dartmouth is going to be a smart, disciplined, accomplished, and ambitious student. They are not partying on a Tuesday night. Most likely, they are in the library. But they tend to be humane and friendly and social - particularly at Vanderbilt.

I'd add a couple of more to the list of well adjusted and prestigious schools - Chicago and Notre Dame. Both seem fairly humane and well balanced these days. WashU also seemed pretty sane when we visited. We didn't visit Bowdoin, but the kids we know there all seem like well-balanced good students who come out as better people than when they entered.

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I just want to add some input on Bowdoin. One of my kids graduated from there. The admissions is competitive and they tend to take very well-rounded kids who are, like kids at most top schools, well disciplined. The academics are hard but they don’t go out of their way to turn up the heat. As a matter of fact, the faculty looks out for kids who may be struggling and the other students are generally cooperative and supportive of each other - but they’re really bright kids. There are always kids who struggle in specific majors and it can be stressful. [/quote]

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