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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]

Other than University of Chicago and Notre Dame, are there any other schools to add to this list? What is Colgate like?

I’m sending this list to kids email so kid can review & update common app as needed.

The more I read on here the more convinced I am that my kid needs a social, friendly, well-adjusted collaborative environment without sharp elbows.

Coming from a very collaborative private high school. 
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Be very cautious taking this list as rule. Close friends and family at Brown and Chicago and Wake Forest ("work forest") describe them as more intense than my Penn and my own Wake kid find their schools to be: their experience has been "social, well adjusted and collaborative" more than the others. The Hopkins '24 grad we know describes it as fun and not too stressful compared with the reputation he had heard. Here is the rub: often the students who describe "pointy elbows" and competition are premeds who are like that everywhere, OR, they are students who by truth or impression feel they are in the bottom tier at their college. It makes them assess the school as overly competitive not realizing they would have likely felt the same way at many other schools. That personality needs to be at a college where they are solidly in the top quarter. 
The Brown /Chicago/Wake friend kids seemed to barely squeak in based on relative stats. Their perception is colored by that. Mine either easily beat the means at their colleges or they are in non-mean-based classes, so they do not find them overly competitive and they thrive on intensity anyway[/quote]

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