Anonymous wrote:MIT
Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??
I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan
Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??
I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan
Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?
Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.
Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.
Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.
You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.
Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.
3 courses per semester in STEM is not a grinder option.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does it exist? A school not full of grinders, though they are smart, and can be nerdy, that are social and well-adjusted??
I keep hearing the following names:
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Duke
USC
Rice
UCLA
Michigan
Do you agree? Disagree? What’s missing? What should come off?
Not sure that Northwestern University should be on your list. Northwestern's quarter system is quite demanding. Students take 4 or 5 courses per quarter and the pre-med and engineering students work as hard as any students in the nation.
Dartmouth College definitely belongs on your list as a "non-grinder school" even though it is on the quarter/trimester system. Students take just 3 courses per term which allows plenty of time for social pursuits.
Duke students also enjoy a rich social life.
You can highlight Brown as the champion of "T-25 non-grinder social schools". Easiest grading, lowest pressure environment among Top 25 National Universities.
Several Ivy League schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, offer non-grinder options.
Anonymous wrote:The wording of the OP invites “ridicule”? Are you responding while sitting on your front stoop in 1955 Brooklyn? Yo!Lady, I got yer top 25 right here!
How bout you make your parents think they didn’t raise a pathetic bully and say the OP invited “disagreement”?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All of the T30 schools are grinders.
+1
+2 my kid is at one of these and it’s a total grind. If not at a party, studying.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:"Maybe" Georgetown? When is the last time it was not ranked T25?
USN&WR
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What are T25 or T30 schools? Based on US News Ranking or some other ranking?
Excellent & appropriate question.
Top 25 Colleges & Universities arguably consists of at least 30 schools:
The 8 Ivy League schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Dartmouth, & Cornell
Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke & CalTech.
The remaining 11 spots can be filled by: Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashUStl, UCLA, UCal-Berkeley, Williams College, Swarthmore College, Amherst College, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, the USNA, USMA at West Point, the USAFA, maybe Wellesley College, maybe Pomona College, maybe Notre Dame, maybe Georgetown, maybe Michigan, maybe Emory, & maybe USC.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:"Maybe" Georgetown? When is the last time it was not ranked T25?
USN&WR
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities