Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 21:20     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

We are looking at a W&M as a low "bro" option. Not "top 25," but pretty close, and seems like a great fit for my DC's personality.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 19:22     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:Harvard and Yale are VERY low on the bro scale Princeton would be higher.


Yes, as Harvard, it's pretty low, but in my time at Harvard about 10 years ago, we would always party hard with the Wellesley, BC, BU, MIT, and Tufts kids. Can't speak too much about Yale, but I do know that there aren't very many colleges around New Haven.

Penn also has a high bro-quotient.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 18:51     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how obsessed some of y'all are with this. Totally strange.


Why is that strange? My DC wanted to stay far away from any colleges which were "high bro". Frats, LAX, etc. No thanks.


+1 many people want to go to a low bro school
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 17:49     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:It amazes me how obsessed some of y'all are with this. Totally strange.


Why is that strange? My DC wanted to stay far away from any colleges which were "high bro". Frats, LAX, etc. No thanks.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 16:43     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Carnegie Mellon - top 25 school, not bro-ish at all.

Swarthmore - getting slightly more bro-ish every year but no where near as bro-ish as NESCAC.

I wonder what it's like out in pomona.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 15:32     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Havard and Yale are VERY low on the bro scale Princeton would be higher.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 12:38     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:Another poster coined the term "bro quotient" defined (by her) as:

"Low bro quotient" = quiet schools with no frats, there are few parties, and where no one cares about either college or professional sports.

What top schools stand out for exceptional low or high bro quotient?

Among Top 25 schools, I'd say Duke, USC, UVA, Vanderbilt and maybe Dartmouth have the highest bro quotient.

Chicago, Cal Tech, MIT, Johns Hopkins are probably lowest.


Wake Forrest is among the highest in the Top 25
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 12:31     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

It amazes me how obsessed some of y'all are with this. Totally strange.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 12:24     Subject: Re:"Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).
It is an you're right. OP has chosen to change the definition but the fact remains that 'low-bro' means what it means. Maybe OP should say 'low brow.'
Sorry, I can't keep up with the definitions. I just referred myself to Urban Dictionary. I'm just old.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 12:11     Subject: Re:"Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).
It is an you're right. OP has chosen to change the definition but the fact remains that 'low-bro' means what it means. Maybe OP should say 'low brow.'
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 11:54     Subject: Re:"Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).


No - OP in this thread summarized the intent. An East Coast "bro" would typically be a white male from a suburb like Upper Merion or Mt. Lebanon, PA, Great Neck, NY, Bethesda, MD or Vienna, VA.


I'd add Chevy Chase, MD and McLean, VA (and parts of Northwest DC adjacent to the MD border) as suburban areas that produce "bros" - basically the wealthiest parts of the Northeast
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 11:33     Subject: Re:"Bro quotient" high and low?

Anonymous wrote:Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).


No - OP in this thread summarized the intent. An East Coast "bro" would typically be a white male from a suburb like Upper Merion or Mt. Lebanon, PA, Great Neck, NY, Bethesda, MD or Vienna, VA.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 11:25     Subject: Re:"Bro quotient" high and low?

Ha. I thought that was a thinly-veiled reference to the fact that Pitt was in urban, diverse, Oakland. (So, high-bro?).
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 11:22     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Columbia/Barnard are low.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2014 10:32     Subject: "Bro quotient" high and low?

Another poster coined the term "bro quotient" defined (by her) as:

"Low bro quotient" = quiet schools with no frats, there are few parties, and where no one cares about either college or professional sports.

What top schools stand out for exceptional low or high bro quotient?

Among Top 25 schools, I'd say Duke, USC, UVA, Vanderbilt and maybe Dartmouth have the highest bro quotient.

Chicago, Cal Tech, MIT, Johns Hopkins are probably lowest.