<p>I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar[/url]”>http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar</a></p>
<p>Link has it all…</p>
<p>a school with lot of kids from rich well to do families (just my personal opinion, obnoxious may mean different things to everybody)</p>
<p>Duke. 10 char</p>
<p>Agree…Duke</p>
<p>I third that. d00k.</p>
<p>Haaaaahaaa…good question. And yes, the definition of obnoxious depends on the person and from where they sit. </p>
<p>Sometimes obnoxious can mean rich and snotty. Other times it can mean simply intellectually arrogant (which has nothing to do with wealth). Or it can mean annoying on a different level. </p>
<p>Obnoxious can mean drunken fools or people with jock straps for brains. </p>
<p>Its important to visit a campus and try your best to just watch and listen (zip your mouth and open your eyes and ears) and make your best assessment of the vibe and culture at that campus and see if you fit in or not.</p>
<p>I have my own criteria for obnoxious and my own level of when that becomes problematic.</p>
<p>Duke b/c of basketball alone</p>
<p>duke, everyone in that school wants a job in ibanking and they talk about it all the time. reference: 5 years of professional experience.</p>
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<p>If you went to Duke, you would know that’s not even close to true. I’d guess something like 5-10% of the student body goes into i-banking. It’s quite funny that there is universal disdain for Duke on this site even though I’m sure the student body closely resembles that of many private institutions. I guess the thing that differentiates it is basketball. Quite funny if you ask me. You guys hate it so much that you have to spell it in a manner to compare it to feces. And people wonder why Dukies seem to be extra sensitive on this site; it’s clearly in response to the rampant animosity brought up by other posters. Duke certainly isn’t the best school the nation. But it’s certainly among the top 15 or so and Duke students are by and large hardworking, respectful individuals with a student body closely resembling that of UPenn, for example. Why isn’t UPenn as hated? It’s quite an interesting question…</p>
<p>Clearly, the writers of the GQ article are Yalies. Brown, Harvard, Princeton on the list but no Yale? I found the GQ article humorous as it’s not supposed to be taken seriously.</p>
<p>And having said all that, this thread doesn’t serve much of a point rather than a way to put down other schools’ student bodies. Doesn’t seem like a great exercise to me.</p>
<p>And quite a shock that somebody at Chapel Hill thirds the Duke suggestion. I would have never guessed that! I’m sure there is no bias in that response.</p>
<p>As bluedog just demonstrated, Duke is definitely in the running.</p>
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<p>I was going to go with Princeton. But after reading this, I say Duke.</p>
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<p>@bluepuppy: if you want to improve the image of your school, first try to improve your reading comprehension. The poster said that everyone at Duke WANTS i-banking and TALKS about it, not that everyone GOES into it. What s/he said is not necessarily true, but your statement does not and cannot falsify it.</p>
<p>Schools with over the top sports cultures (ie Duke, not UPenn). And notre dame, although I live it for that haha</p>
<p>I don’t see how anybody could see what I wrote as being obnoxious. I didn’t put down a single school or even sing Duke’s praises. All I said is that it’s a good school with a student body similar to that of many other elite private institutions, so why is it singled out by five posters above without anybody mentioning a single other school?</p>
<p>Thanks PandoraHearts, you actually provided a good reason and I think I agree with it. Those with over the top sports cultures tend to gain the ire of others. And even moreso, those with national relevant high profile sports (read football and basketball) tend to do gain even more attention. For these reasons, I see Maryland fans as “obnoxious” for throwing buses over after winning a single regular season game, giving Carlos Boozer’s mother a concussion after throwing glass bottles at here, etc. But if Maryland wasn’t relevant in basketball then clearly I wouldn’t have formed this opinion and I wouldn’t even think about the student body in any particular matter.</p>
<p>And johnnybegood, I realize that there is a distinction between “wants” and “goes” into i-banking. But if 100% of the student population wants to go into i-banking, typically a far larger than 5% ends up going into it. At Duke, the #1 employer is Teach for America. So, it’s not an i-banking centric student body and clearly not everybody wants to go into it.</p>
<p>Edit: I’ll stop replying in this thread, so you guys can continue the conversation. But I’ll just leave with one point. The majority of the top private institutions have similar student bodies with perhaps geographical differences. But the makeup of the student body from a racial/socioeconomic/religious standpoint is quite similar except in rare circumstances (e.g. Notre Dame for Catholics). Obviously, there are some exceptions and public schools are a whole different animal. But even though stereotypically, for example, Brown and Princeton may be seen as sooo very different, I think a student would easily find others that share similar interests than them and could be happy at either.</p>
<p>Princeton hands down</p>
<p>I think this may help:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar[/url]”>http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/200908/douchy-colleges-list-brown-university-duke-harvard-princeton-nyu-notre-dame-vassar</a></p>
<p>America’s Top 25 Douchiest Colleges, and yes, Princeton and Duke are on it.</p>
<p>^haha, that was funny as hell</p>
<p>lol, Princeton and Harvard more douchy than Bob Jones University…</p>
<p>Bob Jones is definitely obnoxious. I’m a christian but Bob Jones takes it WAYYY too far. It’s annoying to see the extremes they take everything to when you know it doesn’t have to be that way.</p>
<p>ok, rant over</p>