Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 12:36     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Take a look at "Happiest Students" and "Quality of Life" in Princeton Review. They are based on student surveys. At a glance, the candidates would appear to be:

Vanderbilt
Rice
William & Mary
Brown
Emory
Richmond (an LAC)


Why are southern schools so good at happy campuses?


Weather perhaps. But these are also similar sized schools that are more residential in nature.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 12:31     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Take a look at "Happiest Students" and "Quality of Life" in Princeton Review. They are based on student surveys. At a glance, the candidates would appear to be:

Vanderbilt
Rice
William & Mary
Brown
Emory
Richmond (an LAC)


Why are southern schools so good at happy campuses?


Weather may have something to do with that. Midwest and NE schools where it's cold/dreary and no sunshine for 4-5 months certainly doesn't help with student's mental state.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 12:29     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Take a look at "Happiest Students" and "Quality of Life" in Princeton Review. They are based on student surveys. At a glance, the candidates would appear to be:

Vanderbilt
Rice
William & Mary
Brown
Emory
Richmond (an LAC)


Tulane


Yes, I should have included Tulane. They are pretty high on both lists.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 11:17     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
“least stressful” is maybe the wrong question/label. which of the top schools offer serious academics but most students also manage to have a well-rounded social life? georgetown would fit.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 09:47     Subject: Re:Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:If he truly wants non-stressful, he needs the courage to march to the beat of his own drum. I turned down a top 20 school to go to a warm little school far outside the top ranks. I then ended up in a top 5 for grad school because by then I was ok with the stressed out peers. And yes, the kids who go to top 30 are stressed out and a lot of them are miserable.

What he wants is contradictory. If environment really matters, he needs to go outside the top 30.


I think you're missing the point. Sure, all those schools are stressful/competitive. But of them, which is least.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 09:35     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA, pretty laid back unless you are in pre-med, then it is cut throat and intense. Good balance of work hard, play hard.

UNC also comes to mind.


Vanderbilt, except for pre-med track. I’m an Econ grad.


I think vandy has changed in the last 5 yrs. I’m sitting on the commons as i write this and the vibe is … resolute and dutiful. My sophomore feels duped because he too read all the “happy students” rankings. He says it’s a boring slog and no one wants to socialize because work


Ask him if the southern kids feel the same way


PP you’re quoting and you make a good point. DS suspects there’s truth there and he joined 3 activities that appear to draw membership from southern natives (he is not)
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 08:34     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:Take a look at "Happiest Students" and "Quality of Life" in Princeton Review. They are based on student surveys. At a glance, the candidates would appear to be:

Vanderbilt
Rice
William & Mary
Brown
Emory
Richmond (an LAC)


Tulane
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 08:05     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:Take a look at "Happiest Students" and "Quality of Life" in Princeton Review. They are based on student surveys. At a glance, the candidates would appear to be:

Vanderbilt
Rice
William & Mary
Brown
Emory
Richmond (an LAC)


Why are southern schools so good at happy campuses?
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2022 05:39     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Dartmouth is a bit like a duck as well and they are actively trying to shore up mental health and wellness services in light of a handful of student suicides with the past 2 years. If you have a socially dominant bright kid, Dartmouth is great.


Gross.


+1. That is such a weird comment. Makes it sound like the middle school of the ivy league.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2022 22:28     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Dartmouth is a bit like a duck as well and they are actively trying to shore up mental health and wellness services in light of a handful of student suicides with the past 2 years. If you have a socially dominant bright kid, Dartmouth is great.


Gross.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2022 21:46     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools

Dartmouth is a bit like a duck as well and they are actively trying to shore up mental health and wellness services in light of a handful of student suicides with the past 2 years. If you have a socially dominant bright kid, Dartmouth is great.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2022 19:59     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Brown. if you can get it, it is great - grading policy and lack of general distribution requirements lower the stress level.


Grading policy = you get an A


If that were true, it would still meet OPs criteria. The truth is that of you are smart enough to get into Brown, you are smart enough to do well there. I dont see anything wrong with that. The kids there still work hard due to internal motivation.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2022 19:05     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Anonymous wrote:Brown. if you can get it, it is great - grading policy and lack of general distribution requirements lower the stress level.


Grading policy = you get an A
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2022 19:01     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Brown. if you can get it, it is great - grading policy and lack of general distribution requirements lower the stress level.
Anonymous
Post 09/30/2022 18:48     Subject: Least stressful Top 30 or so schools
Take a look at "Happiest Students" and "Quality of Life" in Princeton Review. They are based on student surveys. At a glance, the candidates would appear to be:

Vanderbilt
Rice
William & Mary
Brown
Emory
Richmond (an LAC)