<p>yes, duke has a very academic feel, but not really "intellectual" in the traditional sense. the students are just as smart as anywhere else, but they do their best to hide that and act "cool"</p>
<p>It's not the academics themselves that make a school have an intellectual feel, but rather the student's response to them,</p>
<p>hey, i'm in need of the same thing.. intellectual safety schools. just because it's easier to get into i don't want it to be a party school</p>
<p>Earlham is a school that I thought was very intellectual, and sarah lawrence might as well be the king of intellectual feel along w/ uchicago, look for small private colleges for safties, there aren't a lot of well known safeties that are intellectually inclined</p>
<p>I would expect most top schools to be fairly intellectual in character. Specifically look into the smaller top schools as they will have a more intimate learning environment, and thus one where students feel more comfortable to voice intellectual opinions both in and out of class. From experience visiting schools as a prospective student, I was particularly struck by how intellectual Carleton, Oberlin, Williams, and Amherst were. While Swarthmore has a reputation as an "intellectual" school I personally felt that it was much more of a pseudo-intellectual school. From visits to the campus, conversation with Swatties and Swat alumns, and my readings of their newspaper and various publication, I've just been continually struck by how hard Swatties try to SEEM intellectual. Other schools including (but not limited to) those I've already mentioned were much more subtly intellectual in the sense that students didn't feel that they had to indicate through every conversation that they were intellectual. This doesn't mean that conversations weren't as intellectual at these schools as they were at Swat--conversations were more intellectual for intellectualisms sake rather than intellectual for the seeming intellectual.</p>
<p>This was my personal opinion, and it could very well be an unfair representation of Swarthmore.</p>
<p>The problem with transferring to St John's is that you would be required to start at the beginning of the instruction as a freshman.</p>
<p>You sure Reed doesn't give fin aid to transfers? We poor.</p>
<p>Intellectual Safety Schools</p>
<p>-- Look at Kalamazoo College. K College is known for their K Plan, which combines off-campus study, lots of writing, and a senior thesis requirement. Plus, Kalamazoo is on the quarter system, which heightens the pressure. Generally, K College gets raves for preparing their students for grad school.</p>
<p>this is really really old, but I found it on a google search, so bump</p>
<p>^ why'd you bump it? or you "don't care"? :D</p>
<p>bc I like the topic</p>
<p>Well, I'll give you an example of intellectual vs. academic environment:</p>
<p>Berkeley is an intellectual environment.
UCLA is an academic environment.</p>
<p>Don't forget Oberlin</p>
<p><em>coughing</em> ack this thread is OLD...dust....sneeze.</p>
<p>Georgetown?</p>