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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading the Princeton thread. 
And Northwestern thread….depressing.

Which T20 schools aren’t “grim” or soulless?

Looking for semi- intellectual but still social and lively. 
Small class sizes key. 
Where you know your classmates……
Humanities major.[/quote]

Most kids at Princeton and Northwestern are quite happy and thriving.  If you're going to make decisions based on the outliers, you probably shouldn't be looking at T20 schools because they will all have kids who weren't happy about their experiences.  [/quote]
Almost 1/3 of kids at Princeton major in computer science and engineering; add biological sciences and econ to the mix and that’s just over 1/2 of all students. This disproportion is only growing with expansion of engineering etc. Not a good place for a humanities major.[/quote]

Wouldn’t that make a great for humanities major? Really small class sizes, access to professors and a ton of resources going your way since the herd has moved in another direction?[/quote]
Not any more than Johns Hopkins is good for humanities majors. Sometimes life of the mind types don’t want to be surrounded by preprofessional grinder types. [/quote]
Because the 'life of the mind' does not include trying to learn physics or chemistry or engineering, right?  The life of the mind does not include facility with math or interest in biology, right?  [/quote]
Say you don’t have a humanities kid and did not major in humanities without saying you don’t have a humanities kid and did not major in humanities…[/quote]

That was a lame response.  The students have interests beyond their majors, and it's not like students are "preprofessional grinder types" just because they are majority in CS or ORFE any more than every Comparative Lit major intends to get a Ph.D and become a professor.

I was looking at another web site where there are Q&As about Princeton and other Ivies and discovered that the most critical posts about Princeton repeatedly came from one Harvard graduate who thought he knew all about Princeton because he'd dated someone for a year who went to Princeton.  It was hard not to conclude that it must have been a bad break-up.  [/quote]

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