Anonymous wrote:Honestly asking: is it always the same schools that appear on this entire forum? Are these boosters waiting for a thread to jump in it with their school? Okay okay we got it top 20, then some more.

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Yep, same handful of schools, blah blah blah.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke
Vanderbilt
UT-Honors (Texas)
UVA
Michigan
Northwestern

Sorry this list doesn’t include HYPSM

Agree with this.
And for our HS, add Cornell (Dyson/hotel/ ILR - non-stem) if in Greek life.

Agree on Cornell. I know a kid like this who is very smart and Greek at Cornell and having a blast.

Honestly asking: is it always the same schools that appear on this entire forum? Are these boosters waiting for a thread to jump in it with their school? Okay okay we got it top 20, then some more.

The coolest kids are getting hired at FAANGs or invidia or AI shops right out of high school. Sorry, you won’t find anyone smart or energetic at college these days. It’s only for losers.

Anonymous wrote: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).

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

U Miami of course

Anonymous wrote:Duke
Vanderbilt
UT-Honors (Texas)
UVA
Michigan
Northwestern

Sorry this list doesn’t include HYPSM

Agree with this.
And for our HS, add Cornell (Dyson/hotel/ ILR - non-stem) if in Greek life.

My son who is whip smart but a partier and very social just finished his freshman year at Dartmouth and found his people. However, there are plenty of non-partiers there too---lots of quirky, artsy, geeky kids (no slight intended-I was in this category as a teen). I think even Dartmouth is headed away from the work hard, party hard set to more of the Ivy grinder.

Other schools he really liked were Vanderbilt, USC, UVA, UNC and Texas.

Honors colleges

MIT

Duke
Vanderbilt
UT-Honors (Texas)
UVA
Michigan
Northwestern

Sorry this list doesn’t include HYPSM

Sounds like U Penn!

Kids like that at my kid’s school thrive in honors programs at SEC flagships. They offer everything.

Anonymous wrote: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).

Dartmouth. It's where beer pong was created and "Animal House" movie is based on it. It's the genesis of work hard/drink harder.

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).