<p>Made a post for the friendliest students...what about the meanest, snobbiest, cliquey-est(sp?) students? Hope this doesn't start a huge fight..just curious...</p>
<p>UCLA students seemed, to me, kinda distant/somewhat mean.</p>
<p>Stanford students can sometimes be rather elitist, disdaining pretty much any school they don't consider to be "on par" with Stanford (hell, they even disdain schools like HYP, in a not-so-friendly way). Princeton seemed to have a few jerks too. Didn't visit Yale or Harvard, but I daresay this attitude might be not so uncommon there, either.</p>
<p>Cornell--the kids in my opinion tend to be very prestige oriented and elitist.</p>
<p>^HAHAHA^
Quite the contrary...</p>
<p>There are mean kids at every school.</p>
<p>yes, there are kwu, but what ones have the most in your opinion</p>
<p>yes, there are kwu, but what ones have the most/worst in your opinion?</p>
<p>Sorry, I was actually responding to Bezcraze's very amusing post.</p>
<p>I wouldn't know, but there is probably a greater concentration of mean students at schools with large populations and at the elite universities.</p>
<p>Most people aren't mean. Some may appear stuck up (blame it on their mean neutral expression), but 8 times out of 10 you'll see that once you talk to them they're actually really nice.</p>
<p>Exactly. You will run across disagreeable people wherever you go, but, at the same time, the vast majority of people are nice.</p>
<p>Different people may be 'mean' to different people. A conservative school might be 'mean' to someone who tends to be an outspoken liberal, but are still typically nice people. It's easy to take care of that sort of stuff- if you're not relgious at all, don't go to a school with a super-religious student body, etc.</p>
<p>USC seems to have more than its fair share of stuck up people.</p>
<p>Whoa! I know most people aren't mean, guys. I just was curious to what schools had kinda bad reps for mean students..just wondering what you thought..I know its all stereotypical, but I thought it would be interesting if people shared their thoughts in which schools they generalized as "mean" or "cliquey"</p>
<p>Well, some people seriously contemn Princeton's eating clubs.</p>
<p>Avoid anything from the eastern edge of Pittsburgh eastward, and from the Mason/Dixon line north. Also avoid anything in California that is within 50 miles of the Pacific Ocean. The rest of the country will be ok.</p>
<p>I happen to hold a view that top schools have actually fewer number of these groups of students described. Elite schools sure do have higher concentration of elitists. But, by talking about 'mean' students, many students from lower tier schools are mean. A lot of irrational streotypes, social cliques, and ignorance/intolerance towards diversity is rather common at many big party schools. Actually, I happen to think that most top 30-40 universities in general provide more accepting environments, perhaps due to higher maturity level and higher level of average intelligence among the student body.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that people in the northeast are automatically mean. Schools like Vassar are known for having really really friendly students. And I wouldn't be going to Bryn Mawr if everyone was mean. :D</p>
<p>I've heard USC</p>
<p>I'd go with USC or Vanderbilt. But this is them being mean if you are not like them. For example, both schools are known to be filled with attractive preppy rich kids (attractive girls for example) and if you are an ugly nerd, you'd probably find them to be mean while at say, Caltech, no one will really care how you look or where you came from as it is your "engineering abilities" that matter and how well you discuss robotics. </p>
<p>^Just an example, so I'm gonna say... Vanderbilt.</p>
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<p>I find this thread a little weird, but if I were my D speaking, she would agree with lfecollegeguy on the Vanderbilt assessment...</p>
<p>When my D was deciding on where to enroll in April, she found that both the new admittees and those already enrolled were bordering on "rude to unfriendly" when she talked to them on Facebook...yes, it's difficult to judge people online but when you have a couple of weeks to make a decision (and yes, she visited and found the same thing) it was not at all comforting or welcoming.....</p>
<p>and no, I don't consider her an "ugly nerd" (nor would anyone be able to assess that online......)</p>
<p>I visited Vanderbilt and my tour guide was extremely friendly. The people I met were also pretty nice.</p>