<p>I was just wondering what colleges pop to mind when you think "college", it could be because of an apearance in popular culture, notable alumni,a famous event,prestigious programs, or notorious school traditions</p>
<p>When I think college, I always think about Vanderbilt and some of the schools in my home state, Texas.</p>
<p>In terms of general popularity:
HYPSM
Chicago
Duke
Berkeley/UCLA
NYU</p>
<p>Chicago and NYU? I don’t think so. They both are very good, but neither of them give you the quintessential college experience that most students would prefer.</p>
<p>how can you try and argue someone’s opinion lol, it’s his personal perception…</p>
<p>^^^That’s true soccersamdude11. Unless it’s your opinion of course.</p>
<p>Yeah because if it’s mine then it’s automatically right and not worth arguing.</p>
<p>I think Oxbridge. I mean, they’ve both been at it for over 800 years…</p>
<p>Besides, British accents just seem necessary for any good stereotype.</p>
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I’m just going by the colleges I hear on TV. NYU has A LOT of celebrities and has NYC on its side (also Lady GagGag, Perez Hilton, and the Olsen twins). I hear Chicago a lot for its journalism program.
I forgot to include Columbia. My favorite singers/songwriters went there. Brown too, just recently, because of Emma Watson (squee).</p>
<p>I never thought of Duke as listed near top 5 schools, it’s always been a sports school to me.</p>
<p>Duke is really not a sports school. It just has a “good” basketball team and is sportier than many of its peers.</p>
<p>ahahaha CCIllinois needs to get out more. If you never thought of Duke near top 5 schools, check the USNWR rankings for the past 20 years. We’ve gone all the way up to 3rd, and never been lower than 8th.</p>
<p>■■■■■ @ “sports school.” No moreso than Stanford. It’s called a well-balanced environment full of well-balanced students.</p>
<p>harvard, obviously. stanford, i’m from the west coast. uchicago, for the nobels, free market, and obama (even though he should be associated with harvard law, he claims uchicago is more of a home for him), yale, because it’s almost synonymous with law.</p>
<p>^ Uhhhhh…Obama has explicitly stated how much he despised UofC as a young community organizer. He disliked the “fenced-in hub of intellectual snobbery” that walled itself off from the crappy parts of Chicago. Just sayin’.</p>
<p>that’s just political positioning - u think constituents would be happy if he said “oh, i’m an elitist law prof in the ivory towers of higher education?” anyway, for a guy who hates it, he taught there, sent his kids to the uchicago lab school, and sourced most of his staff (along with harvard) from the school. and for your knowledge, chicago profs/admin were huge in backing him for his political push to the senate as well as the presidency.</p>
<p>^ Right, which is why I didn’t vote for him 
“Ah, how my heart aches for the poor and needy!” Uh huh.
It’s pretty damn hard to find a NON-hypocritical snake in the political realm, ain’t it?</p>
<p>P.S. Just to clarify, I didn’t vote for McCain, either. I didn’t vote for anyone, considering I was 17 at the time :D</p>
<p><em>ends off-topic political discussion lol</em></p>
<p>I think of a giant frat school a la American Pie or Old School. Maybe somewhere like Penn State or ASU.</p>
<p>to be fair, he’s had a consistent voting record in congress and worked as a city organizer. and we’ve never had a president who knows more about constitutional law than obama - better than having an snarky businessman or celebrity in office!</p>
<p>Vinnyli- Chicago has no such journalism program. You may be thinking of Northwestern.</p>
<p>Ah, consistency?! Nevermind, another debate for another day! :)</p>
<p>Back to the original post, it depends on the context.</p>
<p>If I’m talking to an intellectual friend about college, gothic architecture and tweed-clad professors are on my mind (a la Oxbridge, Yale, Duke :)).</p>
<p>If I’m talking to a party friend, I’m thinking of keg parties at any generic state school (a la Animal House).</p>