Anonymous wrote:USC. works hard plays hard. DC loves it.

work hard = less stressful?

Anonymous wrote:CMU - once you finish reading for the upcoming class, submitted assignments on time, prepared for upcoming tests, then you can be as laidback as you want!

This was sarcasm, right?

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1081775.page

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Anonymous wrote:NYU. Agree. Stern may be more demanding though so if business will be a little more competitive. Avoid Cornell as very competitive (kid there now). Avoid Columbia (other kid graduated from there). Georgetown I hear is pretty competitive. Generally, avoid BU, GW, and Cornell.

This may be major specific experiences at BU, Cornell and GW. I have a kid at Cornell and friends with kids at BU and GW and this is not their experiences at all. Maybe the poster is trying to psych you out so your kid does not apply to these good schools and their kid has less competition.

My kid is at Cornell now. I was the poster. I myself went to GW. We have friends with kids at BU. So I am speaking from experience. I still know a lot of GW kids there now as a donor from various events and groups. All my kids are in college or out. Two from Columbia and one from Cornell. Please don't cast false motivations, I am only trying to be helpful.

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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.

Ditto for Wash U, laid back except for the pre-meds. Colleges in the Midwest and South will be less intense than colleges on the East Coast, in general.

USC. works hard plays hard. DC loves it.

Another vote for UNC

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.

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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.

That was not the experience of my DD at UVA - she started in aerospace engineering and moved to PPL. Both were very difficult - the latter had lots of seminars and papers. And it's because so difficult to get into . . .

I don't really want to fly in the craft designed by the "laid back" aerospace engineer. Thanks anyway.

I do. Laid back doesn’t mean lacks attention to detail or competence, and overly anxious, stressed out engineers are too scared to innovate.

Ok but poster did not say overly anxious or stressed out or scared. Poster said it was very difficult. It is and it is not for everyone. But it is for those that are fine with very difficult

UNC

CMU - once you finish reading for the upcoming class, submitted assignments on time, prepared for upcoming tests, then you can be as laidback as you want!

UCLA is very good school without being cutthroat competitive. The lifestyle is seriously Californian.

Economics department is quite good, and math verges on stellar (what with Tao et al.).

It was already insanely hard to get in OOS before they decided to now make it even harder. But worth a lottery ticket, especially if it's just ticking the box on some other UC applications.

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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.

That was not the experience of my DD at UVA - she started in aerospace engineering and moved to PPL. Both were very difficult - the latter had lots of seminars and papers. And it's because so difficult to get into . . .

I don't really want to fly in the craft designed by the "laid back" aerospace engineer. Thanks anyway.

I do. Laid back doesn’t mean lacks attention to detail or competence, and overly anxious, stressed out engineers are too scared to innovate.

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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.

That was not the experience of my DD at UVA - she started in aerospace engineering and moved to PPL. Both were very difficult - the latter had lots of seminars and papers. And it's because so difficult to get into . . .

I don't really want to fly in the craft designed by the "laid back" aerospace engineer. Thanks anyway.

I was just coming to say the opposite for W&M. I don't hear about the couple suicides so much as the students are nerdy, competitive and unfun. This from a handful of current students.

Wisconsin—happy students and great college town.