<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Stanford
Penn
Caltech
MIT
Dartmouth
Duke
Chicago
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Washington St. Louis
Brown
Cornell
Rice
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Emory</p>
<p>You do the research 
it’s about your fit not other kids and parents.</p>
<p>How many MIT students does it take to change a light bulb?
Five: one to design a nuclear-powered one that never needs changing, one to figure out how to power the rest of Boston using that nuked light bulb, two to install it, and one to write the computer program that controls the wall switch. </p>
<p>How many Princeton students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician. </p>
<p>How many Brown students does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven: one to change the light bulb and ten to share in the experience. </p>
<p>How many Dartmouth students does it take to change a light bulb?
None: Hanover doesn’t have electricity. </p>
<p>How many Cornell students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the light bulb and one to crack under the pressure. </p>
<p>How many Penn students does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but he gets six credits for it. </p>
<p>How many Columbia students does it take to change a light bulb?
Seventy-six: one to change the light bulb, fifty to protest the light bulb’s right to not change, and twenty-five to hold a counter-protest. </p>
<p>How many Yale students does it take to change a light bulb?
None: New Haven looks better in the dark. </p>
<p>How many Harvard students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: he holds the bulb and the world revolves around him. </p>
<p>How many Vassar students does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven: one to screw it and ten to support its sexual orientation. </p>
<p>How many Middlebury students does it take to change a light bulb?
Five: one to change to light bulb and four to find the perfect Patagonia fleece for the occasion. </p>
<p>How many Stanford students does it take to change a light bulb?
One, dude. </p>
<p>How many Oberlin students does it take to change a light bulb?
Three: one to change it and two to try to get loaded from the old one. </p>
<p>How many Georgetown students does it take to change a light bulb?
Four: one to change it, one to call Congress about their progress, and two to throw the old bulb at American U. students. </p>
<p>How many Lehigh students does it take to change a light bulb?
A whole frat, but only one of them is sober enough to get the bulb out of the socket. </p>
<p>How many Hamilton students does it take to change a light bulb?
The whole student body: when you’re snowed in, there’s nothing else to do. </p>
<p>How many Tufts students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the light bulb and the other to say loudly how he did it as well as an Ivy League student. </p>
<p>How many Sarah Lawrence students does it take to change a light bulb?
Five: one to change the bulb and four to do an interpretive dance about it. </p>
<p>How many Swarthmore students does it take to change a light bulb?
Eight: it’s not that one isn’t smart enough to do it, it’s just that they’re all violently twitching from too much stress. </p>
<p>How many Mount Holyoke students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: she calls a Smithie to do it. </p>
<p>How many Smith students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: all you need it one hot woman and you’ll never have a heterosexual light bulb again. </p>
<p>How many Boston University students does it take to change a light bulb?
Three: one to change the bulb and two to check his math homework. </p>
<p>How many Amherst students does it take to change a light bulb?
Thirteen: one to change the bulb and an a capella group to immortalize the event in song. </p>
<p>How many Wesleyan students does it take to change a light bulb?
Wesleyan’s boycotting GE… you know, military-industrial complex and all that. </p>
<p>How many Connecticut College students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and one to complain about how if they were at a better school the light bulb wouldn’t go out. </p>
<p>How many Bucknell students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: but he’ll only change it if he can put in a white light bulb. </p>
<p>How many Bowdoin students does it take to change a light bulb?
Three: one to ski down to the general store and buy the bulb, one to take the chairlift back to school, and one to screw it in. </p>
<p>How many Bard students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: but she’ll only do it if it’s an alternative light bulb. </p>
<p>How many Lafayette students does it take to change a light bulb?
Seven: one to change the light bulb and six to throw a party because he didn’t screw it in upside down this time. </p>
<p>How many Reed students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: and she doesn’t even need a ladder because she has platform Birkenstocks
How many UVa students does it take to change a light bulb?
Four: one to change the bulb and three to talk about how good the old one was. </p>
<p>How many University of Chicago students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None: they’ll just all read in the dark until exams are over
OR
One: Would you really expect to see two Chicagoans doing something unscholastic together? </p>
<p>How many St. John’s College students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Four: one to read and explain Edison’s patent application, two to construct a working lightbulb from his theories, and one to screw it in. </p>
<p>How many Davidson students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None: lightbulb changing is free at Davidson. </p>
<p>How many UNC students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to screw it in and one to take the old bulb and save it for throwing during the next UNC-Duke game. </p>
<p>How many Deep Springs students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three: one to walk off the ranch to find one, one to screw it in before going out to bale hay for three hours, and one to opine on how this preoccupation with lightbulb-screwing is a sign that women should be allowed to matriculate. </p>
<p>How many Ohio State undergrads does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None: that’s a grad course </p>
<p>How many Virginia Tech students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one gets dressed in orange and maroon and one to change the bulb with a heat transfer book in one hand (the other hand is holding a drink). Then both throw the old bulb at UVA engineers. </p>
<p>How many Vanderbilt students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and one more to explain how they did it every bit as well as any Ivy Leaguer. </p>
<p>How many Georgia students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three: one to change the bulb, and two to phone a friend at Georgia Tech and get instructions. </p>
<p>How many Florida students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Four: one to screw in the bulb and three to figure out how to get high off the old one. </p>
<p>How many Alabama students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Five: one to change it, two to talk about how Bear Bryant would have done it, and two to throw the old bulb at Auburn students. </p>
<p>How many Ole Miss students does it take to change a light bulb?
Six: one to change it, two to mix the drinks, and three to find the perfect J. Crew outfit to wear for the occasion. </p>
<p>How many LSU students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Seven: And each one gets credit for four semester hours for it. </p>
<p>How many Kentucky students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Eight: one to screw it in, and seven to discuss how much brighter it shines during basketball season. </p>
<p>How many Tennessee students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Ten: two to figure out how to screw it in, two to buy an orange lampshade, and six to phone a radio call-in show and talk about how Phillip Fulmer is too stupid to do it. </p>
<p>How many Mississippi State students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Fifteen: one to screw in the bulb, two to buy the Skoal, and twelve to shout, “GO TO HELL OLE MISS, GO TO HELL!!!” </p>
<p>How many Auburn students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One hundred: one to change it, 49 to talk about how they do it better than Bama, and 50 who realize it’s all a lie. </p>
<p>How many South Carolina does it take to screw in a light bulb?
80,000: one to screw it in, and 79,999 to discuss how this will finally be the year they have a good football team. </p>
<p>How many Arkansas students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None: There are only candles and oil lamps in Arkansas.
How many Tulane students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
They did manage to find ONE sober guy on campus. </p>
<p>How many NYU premeds does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three: one to screw in the bulb and two to knock down the ladder. </p>
<p>How many John Hopkins students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
No one changes it. The less competition the better. </p>
<p>How many Carnegie Mellon students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One, but not before thinking “What would Galileo do?” </p>
<p>How many Harvey Mudd students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
They don’t. It is a time for mourning; everytime a lightbulb goes out, a great idea has been lost. </p>
<p>How many Williams students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Muahahahaha! Lanterns triumph again! </p>
<p>How many Carleton students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One, but she just has to drive to the Mall of America to get a new one. </p>
<p>How many Cal Tech students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Five: one to change the bulb and four to dip the old bulb into liquid nitrogen, then drop it off the library roof. </p>
<p>How many Syracuse students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to screw it in and one to drive the snow plow to get to it. </p>
<p>How many Michigan students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Ten: one to change the bulb and nine to act as the Supreme Court to affirm the action. </p>
<p>How many Wisconsin students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to get the Cheesehead hats. </p>
<p>How many Colorado students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Twenty-one: one to hold the bulb steady while twenty football players turn the house. </p>
<p>How many Duke students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to yell GO BLUE DEVILS! </p>
<p>How many Emory students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb – but, while listening on his hands-free cell phone, his mother gives him proper encouragement by telling him what a perfect job he is doing in order to reinforce his self-esteem. </p>
<p>How many Rice students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to insist that Rice is really a Texas Ivy. </p>
<p>How many Northwestern students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to screw it in and the other to tell him how to do it according to the manual. </p>
<p>How many Berkeley students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
2001: one to demand his right not to change the bulb and two thousand to stage the strike in support of him. </p>
<p>How many USC students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to check it for STDs. </p>
<p>How many Macalester students does it take to change a light bulb?
Six: one to change the bulb, two to debate the political correctness of the old bulb as being used or pre-owned, two to recycle it correctly so that all glass and metal are properly separated, and one to worry that they won’t cut themselves. </p>
<p>How many Notre Dame students does it take to change a light bulb?
25,000: one to change the bulb and the others to cheer him on from the stands. </p>
<p>How many Purdue students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to boast he’s proud of being a Hoosier and that it has nothing to do with chickens. </p>
<p>How many Grinnell students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to wonder if having a degree from a small college in Iowa will get him a job in a bookstore after graduation. </p>
<p>How many Oklahoma students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: but when he’s finished he thinks he’s earned his degree in electrical engineering. </p>
<p>How many UTexas students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to tell the Aggie jokes. </p>
<p>How many Case Western students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: but that doesn’t mean he’s a nerd. </p>
<p>How many Washington U students does it take to change a light bulb?
None: since they won’t get their hands dirty - and besides, you could break a nail. </p>
<p>How many Colby students does it take to change a light bulb?
None: they prefer to be left in the dark about everything – except when the Northern Lights appear. </p>
<p>How many Brandeis students does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven: one to change the bulb and ten to be a minion to mourn the passing of the other one. </p>
<p>How many Haverford students does it take to change a light bulb?
Three: one who waits to change the bulb while two others argue if change is good, if the bulb really wants change and that change can only happen when the bulb wants it. </p>
<p>How many Trinity students does it take to change a light bulb?
Who cares. </p>
<p>How many Bates students does it take to change a light bulb?
None: they dont’ know what’s burned out? Themselves or the light bulb? </p>
<p>How many Wake Forest students does it take to change a light bulb?
First, there is a campus-wide study to figure out why no one can find the light switch and then an ad hoc committee is formed to find out what a light bulb really is and what it really can contribute to society. </p>
<p>How many Colgate students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change the bulb and the other to hope that it’s not another toothpaste joke. </p>
<p>How many Pepperdine students does it take to change a light bulb?
Later, dude. Surf’s up. </p>
<p>How many Boston College students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to throw the old bulb like Doug Flutie and the other to go long and catch the Hail Mary pass. </p>
<p>How many Bryn Mawr students does it take to change a light bulb?
One: to call the electrician but it had better be a woman doing a man’s job. </p>
<p>How many Miami students does it take to change a light bulb?
What’s a light bulb?</p>
<p>A classic! This should be stickied…</p>
<p>I think nngmm’s nailed it.</p>
<p>Well, that answers the question! two thumb’s up , nngmm.</p>
<p>My point with this thread was to dispel the notion that you can categorize students from a particular university into a particular “type.” Perhaps when they become a member of an institution, they are transformed according to its ethos, but going in, where admissions is concerned, there is no specific “type” they are looking for. </p>
<p>All of the above are huge huge generalities that, while fun and funny to read about, do not necessarily have any basis in truth any longer. Princeton students are no longer snobbish socialites, for example. So much has changed, if it ever was that. I would venture to say that Princeton students can be interchanged with any of the top 20, though perhaps they accrued more formal distinctions than most.</p>
<p>You can’t rationalize a rejection from Princeton as “oh my kid would not have fit there anyway” or “they sensed he would not fit so that was a good decision.” That’s not the way to think. He was not selected either because his stats were not up to par or if they were, because the process is extremely arbitrary.</p>
<p>You asked stereotypical question about “fit”, then when things got funny, you said that your whole point was to dispel with the notion of “fit”.
If you have a serious question, it’s best to start out a thread that way.
Meanwhile,I’m cleaning off my keyboard from some of the funny responses.</p>
<p>Well, I just wanted to challenge people if they could come up with people who are a good fit for Princeton vs. Duke vs. Emory. Aside from the really unique schools, e.g. MIT and Caltech, they’re all pretty much a mix of types.</p>
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Well, that definitely killed the mood.</p>
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<p>And, pray tell, just what is wrong with my rationalizing? It makes me happy, doesn’t hurt anyone, and affects you not at all.</p>
<p>dammit nngmm, that was pretty good!</p>
<p>nychomie - <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Other stereotypes: </p>
<p>Harvard students want to run the world.
Princeton students want to own it.
Yale students want to sing about it.
Brown students want to save it.</p>
<p>ilhs, I’m sure it’s fine to think that way for one’s own sake. What’s bad though is when certain myths are perpetuated so they are reified. For example, more snobby people than normal might be drawn to Princeton, and if they somehow get in (I bet you manipulate their apps so they come across as sweethearts), that image is reinforced and actually becomes more and more real.</p>
<p>I do love the jokes though, keep them coming.</p>
<p>Great list with the light bulbs. I might add that it has done the OP no good, however- his is still out…</p>
<p>I very much appreciate the light bulb jokes, but I was also making a point about the overemphasis of “fit.” It matters in certain generalities (e.g. LAC vs. larger university, core vs. open curriculum, techie vs. liberal artsy, rural vs. city), but beyond those, these schools do not necessarily look for a certain persona or type in their applicants. They actually want a DIVERSE class.</p>
<p>nychromie - Then don’t be so disingenuous, or even deceptive, in your original post as if you are someone really looking for information when you already have a point of view and a point to make. That doesn’t sit well with most people. Just say what you want to say and let the comments come.</p>
<p>You can always tell a Harvard Man, but you can’t tell him much.</p>
<p>This thread is silly, even by CC standards!</p>
<p>“For those gung-ho on “fit,” post what the “right fit” is for these colleges”</p>
<p>Harvard - Wrong
Princeton - Right
Yale - Right
Columbia - Wrong
Stanford - Right
Penn - Wrong
Caltech - Wrong
MIT - Right
Dartmouth - Right
Duke - Wrong
Chicago - Wrong
Northwestern - Right
Johns Hopkins - Wrong
Washington St. Louis - Wrong
Brown - Right
Cornell - Right
Rice - Wrong
Vanderbilt - Wrong
Notre Dame - Wrong
Emory - Right</p>