<p>I am a nerd (glasses & socially awkward). I don't party, and I dislike loud and ignorant people. I also hate athletics. I have a question for you guys. Will I fit in at the colleges that I applied to (Wharton, Dartmouth, and Brown)? I haven't visited the colleges, so I'm not sure what the environments are like. When I watch videos that students from these colleges made on the internet, the people in them don't strike me as intelligent. I don't want to go to a place where the student body is a notch below me IQ-wise.</p>
<p>fwiw, just because someone likes to party, drink, be loud/outspoken, sports...doesn't mean their IQ is lower than yours is.</p>
<p>Your statement is absolutely true. I should ask another question. Will there be enough great and nerdy minds at the colleges I have listed above?</p>
<p>There will be the "nerds" and the "drinkers" and the "nerdy drinkers", :p!!
I agree with diesel.. there are a lot of hardcore partiers who are extremely smart.</p>
<p>look into some LACs like Swarthmore and University of Chicago, which have slightly "nerdier" reputations and usually have more intellectual student bodies.</p>
<p>athletes and loud obnoxious partiers are not necesarily less smart than you. All schools have nerds, go wherever you want</p>
<p>ahand, I don't know you personally, so I can't say a whole lot, but it kind of sounds to me like anyone who is not "nerdy" in your eyes is not intelligent... if that's an attitude you tend to carry throughout life (even in a subtle or "hidden" way), you're not going to fit in well anywhere -- just something to be aware of!
If that's not really a prob for you, though, then just forget I said anything!</p>
<p>How high should I aim?</p>
<p>2350 SAT I
4.0 GPA unweighted
mediocre E.C.'s</p>
<p>By the way, I have already applied and been accepted at those schools. I might take a gap year, so I can apply to some other schools. I have also been accepted at the University of Chicago, but I might not be able to matriculate considering it is well past May 1st.</p>
<p>So, why did you choose not to matriculate at the University of Chicago ?</p>
<p>You mean videos like this?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLrgxtALWs%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLrgxtALWs</a></p>
<p>What school did you chose? Of those schools, I would think U Chicago would have fit you best...</p>
<p>apply to duke. there's a lot of nerds here</p>
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I am a nerd (glasses & socially awkward). I don't party, and I dislike loud and ignorant people. I also hate athletics. I have a question for you guys. Will I fit in at the colleges that I applied to (Wharton, Dartmouth, and Brown)? I haven't visited the colleges, so I'm not sure what the environments are like. When I watch videos that students from these colleges made on the internet, the people in them don't strike me as intelligent. I don't want to go to a place where the student body is a notch below me IQ-wise.
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You will fit in perfectly, all those places are extremely pretentious like you!</p>
<p>I understand the concerns you're having. However, I do think they're somewhat unfounded. I am headed next year to Swarthmore, a school many consider "nerdy and socially awkward". However, being on the facebook group with other future students, and seeing current students as well, it is clear that there is certainly plenty of partying that occurs, and there are also many people who plan to participate in intercollegiate sports. Is that who I am? No. I chose swat because of the nerdiness, not inspite of it. However, I can see that there will also be a lot of people like me.</p>
<p>The schools you've mentioned are all quite a bit bigger than mine (well, I don't know how large just Wharton is, but barring that), and there will be extremely eclectic groups of people there. At no college will you be uniformly stimulated by every person you meet. However, the ones you have to choose from will come as close to fulfilling that as any. In fact, two of my best friends are heading to Dartmouth and Brown respectively, and they are both very nerdy, non-partiers, and non-athletic. </p>
<p>I can assure you that you will not find more intelligent or nerdy people at the likes of Harvard or Yale, if that's what you're thinking of. Sure, there are nerdy people there too, so had you gotten into these schools, nothing would be wrong with going there. But they are also filled with legacies, rich kids, and of course, very intelligent kids who <em>also</em> like to play sports and party. Waiting a year to head to a place such as this would surely find you disappointed.</p>
<p>While I already expressed that I have friends going to Dartmouth and Brown who are highly nerdy, I will also mention people I know going to some other schools: One kid is going to Harvard, many feel that he does not deserve this, saying he is a rich legacy who whines to get A's. And this is, in fact, somewhat too. Sure, he is very very smart, and certainly won't be out of place at Harvard, but he is clearly not what you're looking for.
Another kid was accepted to both MIT and Caltech, and chose Caltech. Both are extremely nerdy schools, he selected the even nerdier one. No one argues that he does not deserve to get into these schools, he is clearly extremely intelligent. However, he is also funny, popular, and a member of the football team. I would be very surprised if even you did not enjoy hanging out with him, he's pretty universally liked, and well-respected, despite being a socially adept athlete.
Another one of my good friends is headed to Williams. She is considered by many to be the smartest in our grade, and she is certainly as smart as any. However, she is a major athlete. Not a partier, but rather a girl who puts equal intensity into her academics and into her rowing, and who excels at both.</p>
<p>Sorry that was really long. I just hope it was helpful in some way, and I hope that you find a school where you will be happy.
I'll admit, when I previosly read another post by you, you came off as EXTREMELY arrogant, and I practically wrote a scathing comment, but managed to say nothing.
Reading this post, however, find me seeing you as someone with a genuine request, who simply, perhaps, needs a change of perspective. I hope I have have in someway helped you to achieve this.</p>