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Anonymous wrote:My son got into Yale and felt like it would be too much of a "frat-bro" environment and chose Stanford instead. After spending a weekend at Yale he told me "I feel like I'd accidentally be friends with guys who date rape girls but don't think of themselves as rapists."

DD got into Brown and chose Berkeley instead. Both kids felt like California kids are smart and strive to do well, but without pushing other people out of their way.

Silicon Valley is the complete anthesis of this...especially Stanford.

Yeah, my sister teaches at Stanford and said most of her students are tech bros.

What's a tech bro?

Oh my! ... Stay away from Cali then

Earlham

Definitely Smith

You’ll probably have to choose a second tier school. Which can be great!

Anonymous wrote:Pick one that isn’t in an isolated location and have an off campus hobby.

If you don’t like competitive people, know that all of those schools are filled with them.

What you want is a place where everyone isn't vying for the same internship/grant/grad school/job/etc. If a school is known to not only draw people from everywhere, but also place people everywhere after, then it tends to be a friendlier place. If everyone wants to work on Wall Street, it will suck. If lots of people want to be the big shot in their hometown, it will be pleasant.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son got into Yale and felt like it would be too much of a "frat-bro" environment and chose Stanford instead. After spending a weekend at Yale he told me "I feel like I'd accidentally be friends with guys who date rape girls but don't think of themselves as rapists."

DD got into Brown and chose Berkeley instead. Both kids felt like California kids are smart and strive to do well, but without pushing other people out of their way.

Silicon Valley is the complete anthesis of this...especially Stanford.

Yeah, my sister teaches at Stanford and said most of her students are tech bros.

What's a tech bro?

Anonymous wrote:So, I went to one of the named schools in this thread. I am a complete asshole. Mind you, I am not a DCUM competitive asshole, but an asshole nonetheless.

And were you an outlier at your school? Or no?

So, I went to one of the named schools in this thread. I am a complete asshole. Mind you, I am not a DCUM competitive asshole, but an asshole nonetheless.

Anonymous wrote:Pick one that isn’t in an isolated location and have an off campus hobby.

If you don’t like competitive people, know that all of those schools are filled with them.

Actually the “isolated location” schools don’t have the competitiveness

Pick one that isn’t in an isolated location and have an off campus hobby.

If you don’t like competitive people, know that all of those schools are filled with them.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Reed and there were a lot of smart driven people but not in the competitive rat race asshole way. A lot of really impressive people who have gone on to do cool things in academia but also places like tech, journalism, and non-profits.

Steve Jobs went there, and while revolutionary and brilliant, I would think he is the poster child for pretentious A-hole
Of course he did not complete his degree

He didn’t need to.

Anonymous wrote:I went to Reed and there were a lot of smart driven people but not in the competitive rat race asshole way. A lot of really impressive people who have gone on to do cool things in academia but also places like tech, journalism, and non-profits.

Steve Jobs went there, and while revolutionary and brilliant, I would think he is the poster child for pretentious A-hole
Of course he did not complete his degree

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Anonymous wrote:Rice
Notre Dame
WashU
URochester

Way to sneak Rochester in there.

Rochester is excellent, especially in STEM. We looked at it and my kid did not like the campus vibe for some reason he could not articulate. But great school,especially for things like physics. Having the Eastman school of music there is all nice.

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Anonymous wrote:Assholes are everywhere in life.

OP has serious issues.

Totally agree. Crazy snowflake with inferiority complex

More like a "crazy snowflake" who spent way to much time at HYPS and is quite familiar with those places....

Seriously, if you went to HYPS, do descriptions like "friendly," "nice" "collaborative," "mutually supportive" and "collegial" leap to mind when you describe your college experiences? Maybe "stimulating," "impressive," "exciting," "challenging," etc. I know, I know. Plenty of HYPS students are actually very nice and plenty of students at Midwestern liberal arts colleges are not. But when thousands of people are choosing to be at your college mostly because it is the "best" or "most prestigious" or "most selective" or "highest ranked" place, that has to have an effect.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assholes are everywhere in life.

OP has serious issues.

Totally agree. Crazy snowflake with inferiority complex

More like a "crazy snowflake" who spent way to much time at HYPS and is quite familiar with those places....