"Hippie schools"

[Dennis173]

<p>I would have to say Sarah Lawerence, Bard, and NYU.</p>

[DannyLS3]

<p>College of the Atlantic, aka my school. Very large hippie population, 2nd highest percentage of international students, vegan/vegetarian options at every meal, just 280 students, extremely enviornmentally conscious, you know, the whole hippie deal.</p>

[veryscary]

<p>Ditto on Hampshire, Bard amd Bennington. Wellesley has a lot of lesbian hippies.</p>

[melmariet]

<p>prescott is still going. Very small student body, lots of progressive programs...</p>

[iPacman]

<p>Sorry to revive, but can somebody elaborate on Dartmouth being a hippie school? And if it isn’t, what characteristics make it not a hippy/hipster school?</p>

[MsBees]

<p>I didn’t know kids still were called hippies. Very retro :)</p>

[vonlost]

<p>

… middle class and upper class young people associated with alternative culture, particularly alternative music, independent rock, alternative hip-hop, independent film and a lifestyle revolving around thrift store shopping, eating organic, locally grown, vegetarian, and/or vegan food, drinking local beer (or even brewing their own), listening to public radio, and riding fixed-gear bicycles.

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<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture[/url])”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[behappy7]

<p>I’d nominate Cornell, beautifully set on a hill in Ithaca, New York State’s most liberal town.
Cornell also was the site of what’s considered the best Grateful Dead concert of all time [5/8/77]. Surely this is no coincidence…</p>

[SLUMOM]

<p>This goes back to 2005, this thread?</p>

[thirrdplanet]

<p>Bringing this thread back! Can anyone comment on the hippy-ness of my college list?</p>

<p>Basically students who are involved in social issues, care about the environment, wear and do alternative things, etc.</p>

<p>Colorado College
Earlham
Grinnell
Macalester
Pitzer
Swarthmore
Wesleyan
Willamette
Whitman</p>

[Aerobug]

<p>^ You have a good list if you want hippie schools, though Bard and Reed should be on there.</p>

[thirrdplanet]

<p>I actually attend a class right now at Reed and it’s just not the right social scene for me.</p>

<p>Are any of the schools I listed more hippy than the others?</p>

[maffdad]

<p>Depends on what you are looking for. I would guess that when they are very difficult to get into, and are “name” schools, the culture would reflect that in some ways, so the actual culture of an Earlham or Warren Wilson would have a different culture than Grinnell or Swarthmore.</p>

[Erin_s_Dad]

<p>I think Lewis and Clark qualifies as a hipster college.</p>

[emberjed]

<p>From what I’ve heard, Oberlin is one of the biggest hipster colleges out there, as are U of C and Brown.</p>

[thirrdplanet]

<p>I would kind of think the atmosphere would be different for a kid at Brown or Swarthmore definitely but think a lot of the kids who go to Grinnell and along that selectivity would also apply to schools like Earlham.</p>

<p>I live too close to L & C so it’s definitely out. Any of the schools I listed more than the others? I want a study body who is super interested in social issues.</p>

[Viewer]

<p>My son graduated from Brown last year. I would definitely put Brown in the hippie category.</p>

[darcydoo]

<p>Wait, wait, wait, it is important to distinguish between Hipster and Hippie… can anyone easily pinpoint a school that doesn’t fall into both?</p>

[thirrdplanet]

<p>I think of reed as much more of a hipster school than hippie school. In general though I would say schools that have a lot of hippies also have a lot of hipsters and vice versa.</p>

[Poppyseedz]

<p>New College of Florida would be hard to beat on the “hippie” vibe. It is a public honors college where students develop their own programs. Throwin a bit of beach bum with the Hippie vibe and super smart kids.</p>