<p>Brown, Stanford, Vanderbilt are all pretty laid-back</p>
<p>Stanford, Dartmouth, and Brown are my three.</p>
<p>Well, if that is how you're defining stress, then schools like Caltech and MIT aren't stressful at all. Everybody helps each other out, and it's very unusual to find someone doing homework alone.</p>
<p>...although mostly because no one can do homework alone.</p>
<p>University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Oberlin fits the bill, but I believe the exact opposites would be Swat and NYU.</p>