<p>Anyone want to help compile a list of "hipster" schools? I asked this question in the hippie school thread bu all those dirty hippies got mad. I guess I'll try to define hipster without being too pretentious...intellectual, clever, enjoys traveling, not super trendy but amybe a bit in an artsy way, likes good movies...sorry that was pretentious</p>
<p>Here you go, clearest definition of a hipster I've seen, from <a href="http://www.hybridmagazine.com/culture/0902/dasilva.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.hybridmagazine.com/culture/0902/dasilva.shtml</a> ;):
Definition of a Hipster (from The Hipster Handbook, freewilliamsburg.com):</p>
<p>One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed as being cool by the cool. The hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and must shun or reduce to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.</p>
<p>Let's dissect this definition, shall we?</p>
<p>"One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed as being cool by the cool."</p>
<p>Are we still in junior high? Who are "the cool"? Do they have a secret handshake? The average hipster's gravitational pull gathers fellow robot-like cult members who also live off their trust funds and spout out philosophical idiom they learned in Ivy League. If this is considered cool, then I'm proud to be a dork.</p>
<p>"The hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them "</p>
<p>A hipster is always part of "them" since his style and soul are completely parallel to the hipster next to him, and the hipster next to him, and so on, and so forth, until they become the masses. The Urban Outfitters and Diesels are the K-marts of the future. (Does this mean that "normal", opinionated people will become the hipsters of tomorrow?!)</p>
<p>" and must shun or reduce to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream."</p>
<p>Since we've already determined that hipsters have definitely become their own mainstream, I think by their definition, working for money is kitschy.</p>
<p>"A hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat."</p>
<p>This is true. In between fancy vegan restaurant visits, I've seen many-a-hipster sporting a cig or two to maintain that I-don't-eat-I'm-an-artist weight.</p>
<p>Several researchers and I have been looking into the origin of hipsters and their culture, which, some say, seems to date back to the late 1960's from a group of people called "hippies". However, these "hippies" of the past had specific liberal ideals and beliefs, whereas the new hipsters of today have absolutely none and appear to have been seduced by their vanity into actually "buying in" to upscale marketing and culture. This led us to believe that hipsters were not conceived organically from the rank and file of the human race.</p>
<p>Through our research, we have recently discovered that behavioral scientists were employed by the top five U.S. corporations to produce an overall plan that would guarantee profits and alleviate the pressure to advertise. These scientists came up with a plan to create a new, scientifically engineered breed of human that would specifically buy high-priced label merchandise and also act as supposed "models of fashion". They referred to these new humans as "hipsters". By creating more hipsters and exclusive "models of fashion" hipster circles, scientists correctly predicted that those who enviously aspire to belong to that group are therefore enticed to purchase similar material possessions gain access to these circles. The profitable benefit to these top companies has been unsurpassed.</p>
<p>In conclusion, hipsters are mindless pawns used by greedy corporations, and they suck.</p>
<p>Now, about the colleges, I think most rich-y private colleges have a lot of hipsters, especially urban ones. Try colleges in New York, Chicago, and Boston.</p>
<p>WESLEYAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>After this a moderate amount at Vassar, Brown, Harvard, Yale, Grinnell of the schools I know.</p>
<p>nyu, gw, probably any big city school</p>
<p>Big city schools, for sure.</p>
<p>Oh, definitely NYU. If you're looking for a small school with a lot of hipsters - Bard College.</p>
<p>Yeah I was thinking Brown actually</p>
<p>Oberlin. Some of the most egregious perpetrators of hipsterdom.</p>
<p>deff brown, nyu, gw, bu--all the schools with a cool city vibe. though, providence isnt really that happening, brown students seem really trendy. the best hipster school has to be nyu. i think hipster schools have to be somewhere cold. ive noticed hipsters love their scarves....</p>
<p>The hipsters I know went to Bard, Skidmore, and Columbia.</p>
<p>RISD, way cool</p>
<p>I have to agree on Brown. Anyone else notice how many hipsters went to St Pauls for HS?</p>
<p>all of the Ivies are Hispter schools!</p>
<p>NYU, GWU, Wesleyan, and Parsons to name a few</p>
<p>MGMT was formed at Wesleyan hahaha</p>
<p>Columbia, NYU, Brown.</p>
<p>Just a note: many of these hipster schools, at least the ones not in big cities (Wesleyan, Oberlin, Brown, etc.) also tend to have a fair amount of "dirty hippies" as well. I've noticed that the two tend to go hand in hand on small campuses...</p>
<p>bard, definitely. can anyone suggest schools that have a better acceptance rate than the ones previously listed?</p>
<p>Bard College
Bennington College
Clark University
College Of The Atlantic
Emerson College
Eugene Lang College - The New School For Liberal Arts
The Evergreen State College
Goucher College
Hampshire College
Lewis & Clark College
Macalester College
Marlboro College
New College Of Florida
New Mexico Institute Of Mining & Technology
New York University
Oberlin College
Pitzer College
Prescott College
Reed College
Sarah Lawrence College
Simon’s Rock College Of Bard
St. John’s College (NM)
State University Of New York - Purchase College
Suffolk University
University Of California - Santa Cruz
Vassar College
Warren Wilson College
Wesleyan University</p>
<p>Columbia, certainly. I was walking on Broadway last week and I saw a few guys in skinny-jeans and flannels posing with musical instruments. I stopped, thinking I was about to interrupt a photo, when I realized that there was no photographer. They were just standing there, yawning.</p>
<p>There they were, on a sunny afternoon, summoning some unnecessary irony. I should’ve taken a picture and sent it to <a href=“http://www.latfh.com%5B/url%5D”>www.latfh.com</a> with haste.</p>