<p>So whites (rich) have the market cornered on geekiness?</p>
<p>(at Swarthmore)</p>
<p>My D found the people that she met at Brandeis to be the "earthy, crunchy, granola type."</p>
<p>Reed for sure.</p>
<p>What about "hippie" or liberal state schools? That's what I'm looking for. U of Wisconsin-Madison seems to be just that, and I love it. (Right now, it's my first choice.)</p>
<p>Oberlin is a haven for smelly hippies.</p>
<p>heres princeton revewi's list of "Birkenstock-Wearing, Tree-Hugging, Clove-Smoking Vegetarians", which i would say means hippuie schools:
1 Hampshire College<br>
2 Bard College<br>
3 Sarah Lawrence College<br>
4 The Evergreen State College<br>
5 Oberlin College<br>
6 Reed College<br>
7 New College of Florida<br>
8 Mills College<br>
9 Simon's Rock College of Bard<br>
10 Bennington College<br>
11 Eugene Lang College/New School University<br>
12 University of California-Santa Cruz<br>
13 Wesleyan University<br>
14 Vassar College<br>
15 Pitzer College<br>
16 Warren Wilson College<br>
17 Lewis & Clark College<br>
18 Macalester College<br>
19 Marlboro College<br>
20 Emerson College</p>
<p>If that fails, how about the "Reefer Madness" list?
Hampshire College<br>
2 University of Vermont<br>
3 Bard College<br>
4 Oberlin College<br>
5 Pitzer College<br>
6 Colorado College<br>
7 University of Wisconsin-Madison<br>
8 New York University<br>
9 University of California-Santa Cruz<br>
10 New College of Florida<br>
11 Ithaca College<br>
12 Wesleyan University<br>
13 University of Massachusetts-Amherst<br>
14 University of California-Santa Barbara<br>
15 Sarah Lawrence College<br>
16 SUNY at Albany<br>
17 Vassar College<br>
18 The Evergreen State College<br>
19 West Virginia University<br>
20 Emerson College</p>
<p>hmm im noticing some similarities..</p>
<p>I don't really know about any of the other schools on the list, but I would say that Hampshire and Bennington are populated more by "hipsters" than hippies.</p>
<p>Bennington, Sarah Lawrence?</p>
<p>Ah, but there's a fine difference between hipsters and hippies that you only really know if you go to a hippie/hipster school :P</p>
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<p>isn't there a big difference between hippies and hipsters?</p>
<p>I think there is a big difference between hippies and hipsters. I think of hippies as interested in peace and love, eating organic, smoking a lot of pot. Hipsters are more sophisticated, have more edge, more interested in politics, travel seeming cool.</p>
<p>sorry, I meant: interested in travel, and seeming cool</p>
<p>My experience of Hampshire is that it has some of both. Bennington seems to have more hipsters than hippies. There are also many just very bright, talented, and motivated people here (bennington).</p>
<p>I dont know what an LAC is. But Cornell i think has a lot of hippies roaming around.</p>
<p>And just by way of response to joev's earlier claim: Oberlin is much more about hipsters than hippies too. "A haven for smelly hippies" it's not.</p>
<p>what's a hipster?</p>
<p>what's a hipster?</p>
<p>one definition</p>
<p>Of course, few hippies called themselves hippies, the term was freaks. Life magazine and popular magazines used the term hippie which refers to junkies that blew out their arms for heroin and went to thier hips. Many 1960/70 hippies were politically active and artsey in a non disciplined way.</p>
<p>today it seems to be used to describe people who have longer hair and get stoned or alternative thinkers. Humbolt fits that just fine.</p>
<p>D attends Evergreen and is a Mary Kay consultant. How unhippie is that? At every college you'll find exceptions to the generalization of "hippie school," "nerd school," etc.</p>