<p>No, it really doesn't matter. I will add that I started this thread out of pure boredom and an unwillingness to resurrect one of the old threads that died when people started arguing over whether or not
<em>insert small LAC with fewer than 2000 students</em> had international prestige or something of the sort....</p>
<p>it seems like the top 5 are HYP, Stanford, and MIT. big surprise :)</p>
<p>The "Dude!" Factor for the (only) the SOUTH! (woot!)</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>Chapel Hill</li>
<li>Wasington and Lee</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
<li>UGA Honors</li>
</ol>
<p>The "Dude!" Factor for CALIFORNIA!</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Claremont-McKenna</li>
</ol>
<p>How about UNC for the south?</p>
<p>Yeah, that's Chapel Hill....</p>
<p>The "Dude!" Factor just for LACs...</p>
<ol>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Bowdoin</li>
<li>Wesleyan</li>
<li>Oberlin, Middlebury</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
<li>Colby, Colgate</li>
<li>Grinnell</li>
<li>Bates</li>
</ol>
<p>"Dude" Factor for LACs...</p>
<ol>
<li>Amherst</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>Middlebury</li>
<li>Wesleyan</li>
<li>Davidson/Oberlin</li>
<li>Carleton/Macalester</li>
<li>Bowdoin</li>
<li>Colgate</li>
</ol>
<p>"Dude" factor for stoners:</p>
<p>1.Humboldt State
2.University of Montana
3.University of Oregon
4.Reed
5.Evergreen</p>
<p>"Dude!" Factor for Stoners, IMO:</p>
<ol>
<li>Bard</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Evergreen</li>
<li>Reed</li>
</ol>
<p>Unfortunately, there is very little "Dude!" factor for any of the LACs, unless you hang around with a crowd of CC'ers and grad-school adcoms.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree. There is simply no "Dude!" factor for LACs. Good schools, but no one has heard of them...</p>
<p>"Dudette!" factor colleges!</p>
<ol>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>Smith</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke</li>
<li>Scripps</li>
</ol>
<p>grumpy, no love for Bryn Mawr? I would "dude" it more that MoHo, certainly - probably place it right under Wellesley. I don't know what gerneral opinion is though.</p>
<p>(i don't go there btw, or to any women's college)</p>
<p>oops! I knew I was missing some. <em>revised dudette schools</em></p>
<ol>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr</li>
<li>Smith</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke</li>
<li>Scripps</li>
</ol>
<p>Sarah Lawrence is dude and dudette.</p>
<p>DUDE, Berkeley might have some sort of stonter reputation, but schools such as Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence and Reed put the reality to shame.</p>
<p>DUDE!</p>
<p>Reed 2010 representing.</p>
<p>Without those three...</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Northwestern/Notre Dame</li>
</ol>
<p>The Ivies are better in prestige than any of those...</p>
<p>Stoner version:</p>
<ol>
<li>Humboldt</li>
<li>What's that one in Oregon that rhymes with "weed"?</li>
<li>Ear.</li>
<li>What were we talking about again?</li>
</ol>