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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is very academically oriented, with top stats, recs, and nat’l awards, and also very outgoing with active social life. She’s trying to get a sense of whether any of HYPMS might be a good fit these days (recognizing all are reaches). [/quote]

For HYPMS, oddly it's only MIT that has a healthy social vibe these days.

Other than that;

Vanderbilt
Duke
Dartmouth
Notre Dame 
Rice - not a party school, but very friendly
Brown
McGill
UCLA [/quote]

My daughter attended MIT CPW when she was admitted. She attended a sorority party which was really sad and a frat party that was VERY well-attended by women from neighboring colleges. We had already read about how the male students there do not really respect the women. That and what she saw definitely played into why she turned it down. Chose Harvard — no party scene but no complaints as she made many good friends. Same with another girl from our town who chose Harvard over MIT. It’s all a matter of where you find your tribe! No point attending MIT if the men want to socialize with non-MIT women! [/quote]

Interesti NY, I had not heard that about MIT. Re the others, a lot of them already on the list. DD’s school caps the number of applications so she’s basically trying to decide whether she should include HYPMS at all. Her own crowdsourcing not turning up a lot of positive reviews on the social side. FWIW she crossed off Dartmouth and Cornell bc too far north. 
- OP[/quote]

Not pushing either school, but unless "too far north" means she doesn't like rural, you might want to push her to reconsider on ruling out Dartmouth and Cornell for that reason, esp if the play hard part means she would like a vibrant Greek life. Ithaca isn't really any farther north than Boston, and if you are from DC area, it's significantly closer in terms of driving (and has loads of busses to this area on school breaks).  Hanover is for sure less convenient to get to than Boston if you are using public transportation (whether flying or via train), but drive time isn't that much different.  And while there might be differences in terms of weather, someone trying to avoid serious cold or snow probably should reconsider Boston.[/quote]

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