<p>^^. Not so much grade grubbers but really want to learn for the sake of learning? List away!</p>
<p>MIT, Reed, CMU, Caltech, probably Cornell.</p>
<p>adding to the list, Wellesley, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Chicago, Brown, Swarthmore</p>
<p>I second swarthmore</p>
<p>Chicago - for econ, math, physices, and more
MIT - for engineering, science, and more
Swarthmore - for all the LAC majors.</p>
<p>Princeton (in the mornings, when they're sober), and Yale</p>
<p>Have you all actually been to these places???? I find it funny when people name random schools with no actual in-depth knowledge on the schools' atmospheres....</p>
<p>Forgot one thing, for mass media - northwestern. although I've been to Evanston only once.</p>
<p>Chicago and Reed</p>
<p>Rice and Chicago</p>
<p>Of the schools that I have some experience with, I have found the ones with the most intellectual atmosphere to be:</p>
<p>Reed
UChicago
Oberlin
Middlebury</p>
<p>and I would add Hampshire, Bennington and Evergreen as schools where students seem to be most engaged with, and excited about, their work.</p>
<p>A vote against Cornell, CMU, and everything listed by WorldbandDX.</p>
<p>St. John's College -- Great Books
University of Chicago -- Social Sciences i.e. political science/economics
Caltech -- hard sciences and mathematics
MIT -- likewise
Swarthmore College -- English/Humanities</p>
<p>I think people that attend their own colleges can't put them up.</p>
<p>^So if I attended Princeton, I couldn't post in the "Preppiest Colleges" thread?</p>
<p>The truth is the truth.. period.</p>
<p>BTW, I do not currently attend any of the colleges I listed. I attended one of them for four years, and am now working toward my JD at another. I've grown quite equally fond of both.</p>
<p>Well it'd fix the problem of Worldband listing his colleges you disagree with and you listing Uchicago which I disagree with since both of you going to your respective colleges of Tufts and Uchicago.</p>
<p>Uchicago is a bit grade-grubbing and supercompetitive for my tastes to be called intellectual. Besides, using your logic I guess the only Northeastern guy here has the sole authority on everything about Northeastern. That must mean Northeastern really is top 50 and is better than BU!</p>
<p>I graduated from the University of Chicago two years ago. I operate under no pro-Chicago agenda; I picked this screenname because HarvardMan sounded too pretentious for my tastes. The University of Chicago is almost universally identified as having an "intellectual atmosphere" -- I'll support this statement with a quote from the New York Times:</p>
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Ever since its creation on the South Side of Chicago in 1892 with a pile of Rockefeller money and a group of top-flight scholars, no academic institution has exemplified intellectual seriousness quite like the University of Chicago.
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<p>I have another one from the Washington Post. Would you like to see it?</p>
<p>If my inclusion of the University of Chicago was blatantly biased, I sincerely apologize. Please accept my apology and continue to write about your vicarious experiences at a school you never attended. What was the food like? I thought it was abysmal, but I would rather trust the opinion of someone who heard it from someone else.</p>
<p>And about these supercompetitive students...I never got a chance to meet them, but like you, I've heard an awful lot about them. Do they have horns? Or do they pretty much look and talk like regular people (this would be scarier, I would think)?</p>
<p>Well I said it was "for my tastes" so it doesn't apply for everyone. No offense but I can find "intellectual" written about a lot of colleges including those that are considered tier 2 and tier 3. It is true Uchicago is a hard school and its kids are sometimes seen as nerdy and very caring to get those high grades. JHU premed would also be consideered intellectual if I were to judge by such criteria.</p>
<p>"citing excessive academic pressure, lack of time, and competitiveness, as the biggest difficulties they encounter at the University" <a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/docs/education/record/pdfs/30-5.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.uchicago.edu/docs/education/record/pdfs/30-5.pdf</a>
I have more from actual students like yourself. Would you like to see it?</p>
<p>If my opinion of uchicago was brash I sincerely apologize. Please accept my apology and continue to respond to my posts with bitter vitriolic sarcasm pretending you don't care about what people say about Uchicago which you are clearly still biased for. The fact that you spend an additional effort editing your post further shows how much you really don't care. Congrats.</p>
<p>Damn right I'm "biased" for it. Four years of that hell, you'd be biased too b*tch.</p>
<p>I graduated in 2004, several years after the administration made it its top priority to change the atmosphere of the school. My four years there were rough, but nothing compared to what the kids at MIT or Caltech go through every single day, and on par with what I've experienced in law school. Face it, if you can't handle four pseudo-rigorous years at Chicago (now Reedies and Swathies....those kids really have it bad), you're probably not cut out for a lot of things in life.</p>
<p>"If my inclusion of the University of Chicago was blatantly biased, I sincerely apologize."</p>
<p>"Damn right I'm "biased" for it. Four years of that hell, you'd be biased too b*tch."</p>
<p>Riiiiiiiight. You're hilarious. Someone didn't take their split personality pills today? Also, did you just imply that your 4 years there was hell? Exploding on 17 year olds on an internet msg board when you are 24 arguing about your alma matter is amazingly cool and definitely convinces others of your point.</p>