Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering, what college do you think has the students that are the most cultured, well spoken, and overall intelligent. The kind of kids who have impeccable manners and know how to act in exclusive spaces.

Oxbridge.

Everything you think of as cultured, well spoken, etc. is based primarily on british sensibilities and etiquette.

But if you insist on a school from the rebel colonies, then take a princeton and put a stick up their ass and you have more or less approximated an oxbridge.

The University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Krakow...most of their students are very Polish

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Anonymous wrote:SEC kids are polished. They are not socially awkward, are attractive and look you in the eye. They have a confidence that many students from highly rated schools lack.

The schools are generally huge and may have a tier of “polished” kids…but certainly not the schools as a whole where some accept 75%+ of in state.

Agree with this. Same with Mich, UT Austin who may accept high stats kids but not all of them will be polished in the way that OP is asking.

Texans in general are not polished people. It’s a very loud, judgey state.

Anonymous wrote:Naval Academy

Not necessarily polished but definitely impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:SEC kids are polished. They are not socially awkward, are attractive and look you in the eye. They have a confidence that many students from highly rated schools lack.

The schools are generally huge and may have a tier of “polished” kids…but certainly not the schools as a whole where some accept 75%+ of in state.

Agree with this. Same with Mich, UT Austin who may accept high stats kids but not all of them will be polished in the way that OP is asking.

Anonymous wrote:SEC kids are polished. They are not socially awkward, are attractive and look you in the eye. They have a confidence that many students from highly rated schools lack.

The schools are generally huge and may have a tier of “polished” kids…but certainly not the schools as a whole where some accept 75%+ of in state.

Anonymous wrote:SEC kids are polished. They are not socially awkward, are attractive and look you in the eye. They have a confidence that many students from highly rated schools lack.

Yes, this is true. It is their southern background. I also agree it is mostly the private school kids in most college campuses, so find schools with the highest percentage of the population from private schools or highest percent from the top 1%. So much of this is just socioeconomic background.

SEC kids are polished. They are not socially awkward, are attractive and look you in the eye. They have a confidence that many students from highly rated schools lack.

Anonymous wrote:Emory, Rice, UChicago. Places with a lot of intellectuals.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. Polished is both. Princeton, Georgetown, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, USC are reliably polished. Rice, CMU, UCLA, Harvey Mudd, Cal might not be.

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Anonymous wrote:Naval Academy

This is the only correct answer - and NOT because the students are “polished” themselves but because the Academy “polishes” them from day one: always in uniform (especially when it is dress white), extremely polite in every interaction with outsiders with “Sir” and “Ma’am”, and just everything.

I suspect that the other Service Academics are similar but only have a first hand experience with the Naval Academy.

Uh, maybe at those manners, traditions, or niceties otherwise in the bars or with themselves it’s another stories.

Some are great orators and then go to Kennedy school, politics, or eventually get an MBA. My sibling went to one and sorry I don’t say “polished” as even one of his top 50 attributes. And he’s a fighter pilot.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering, what college do you think has the students that are the most cultured, well spoken, and overall intelligent. The kind of kids who have impeccable manners and know how to act in exclusive spaces.

SMU

Well dressed as well, even their $200 sweats.

I was on a Burbank to Dallas flight once at the end of their spring break and I had tot all with several. It’s an impressive rich kid school, at least the Californians who went there, male or female.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame selects strong ambassadors for tours, smart move, not all schools can or do.

we had the weirdest, most bro guide at ND who said, "Kids here know how to speak to people, shake a hand. Go to a place like Stanford and you'll see: those kids don't. People here had the option of Havard or MIT or Stanford, but they came here because they know what's important."

wtf

I went to Harvard. I doubt we looked or behaved much differently than ND kids. However, I went to several frat parties at MIT, and...yeah. Many of those guys struggled socially. It was sometimes cute or charming, but the MIT kids were not, on the whole, a socially savvy bunch.

What? Even the ones on Bay State Road?!

Jk - I tutored the hockey team in Econ and math my first two years. Some of those were normal, but busy. And the groupies! Not taking about the Wellesley bus.

Anonymous wrote:Colleges that accept many students from top private schools.

This.

This is the polished part—being well mannered, good at speaking, decent EQ, posture & poise, great writers.

Frankly the southerner debutant women from the prep schools would put everyone to shame. They can speak well to anyone, kids to old grandpas. And look you straight in the eye with a smile whilst doing so.

Otherwise all of these schools have the typical characters: preppy, polished, jock, Greek lifers, international, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Harvard and have done a lot of hiring and I will say Princeton, hands down.

Times have changed. Engineering has expanded and nearly 30% of Princeton students now major in engineering. To say the least, the word “polished” no longer comes to mind.

That is not true. Nowhere near 30% of princeton majors in any subject.

Princeton engineering school (which includes CS): 412/1284 is 32% of all students.
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Princeton&s=all&id=186131#programs

So we have 1/3 majoring in the engineering school alone (which is still expanding; the proportion will significantly increase to the next few years).

This is only students on financial aid. Operations research is also very different from engineering. It’s estimated that much fewer students are in the school of engineering.

Financial aid? What are you talking about? You are bonkers and, to the point, unpolished.
This is not an estimate. The numbers are right there. All those majors are literally in the school of engineering; it is not “estimated”.

Chill out a bit. The typical Princeton class has about 1400 students, so there is some missing data.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to Harvard and have done a lot of hiring and I will say Princeton, hands down.

Times have changed. Engineering has expanded and nearly 30% of Princeton students now major in engineering. To say the least, the word “polished” no longer comes to mind.

That is not true. Nowhere near 30% of princeton majors in any subject.

Princeton engineering school (which includes CS): 412/1284 is 32% of all students.
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Princeton&s=all&id=186131#programs

So we have 1/3 majoring in the engineering school alone (which is still expanding; the proportion will significantly increase to the next few years).

This is only students on financial aid. Operations research is also very different from engineering. It’s estimated that much fewer students are in the school of engineering.

Financial aid? What are you talking about? You are bonkers and, to the point, unpolished.
This is not an estimate. The numbers are right there. All those majors are literally in the school of engineering; it is not “estimated”.