<p>just for reference, i put all (or most of) the posts in one. :P</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=dolphins222]
no one did ct yet? ok well ill see what i can do</p>
<p>Yale-~-~ probably most of the CC community has or wants to apply here. It’s pretty prestigious and all but it’s basically in the middle of the New Haven slums, so don’t venture too far out the electrified barbed wire fence!</p>
<p>UCONN-~-~ WooHOO lets go Huskies! 2006 NCAA champs yeaaah. ok enough of that. It’s a great party and academic school for people in ct and seems to get more selective each year. It’s also in the middle of nowhere. So if you like other buildings and towns an civilization in general this probably isn’t the place for you. It has a good agriculture(theres cows on campus!)/med program.</p>
<p>CCSU-~-~ If you can’t get into Uconn then go here, it’s actually a very good school. I think they even got into the sweet 16 one year.</p>
<p>University of Hartford- It used to be pretty good but has gone a little downhill as of late. Don’t go to Hartford! you may not come back… just kidding. Anyway if your paying your way through college it has some good programs.</p>
<p>Easter Conn- ya same as university of hartford pretty much..</p>
<p>Yeah the others are pretty boring and I don’t know anything about them.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=odan]
Good thread idea.</p>
<p>Connecticut here.</p>
<p>Yale - Great academics, great campus, decent surrounding area and a nice mix of academics/social scene.</p>
<p>Trinity - Good school, flies under the radar, tops in the NESCAC in many sports (D3). Football program has longest winning streak in college right now.</p>
<p>Wesleyan - A typical student thought of as a(pick a few) pothead, vegan, liberal, incredibly smart, gay. Has a good reputation and is a little more well known than Trinity, at least in the southern half of the state.</p>
<p>Connecticut College - Dull, dreary, but a good education. Absolutely nobody knows about it.</p>
<p>Quinnipiac University - Viewed as worse than it actually is, mostly because a lot of lower than average students get in because they have a parent affiliated with the university. A pretty good school. Known for having extremely hot and slutty girls.</p>
<p>University of Connecticut - The only state school really worth going to. Pretty good academics and a huge party scene. In the middle of nowhere. Most fairly smart social types end up here. Three small satellite schools exist as well, but until I just looked them up, I was only aware of one of them. Nobody goes to them.</p>
<p>Central Connecticut State University - Thought of as a commuter school, same level as Western or Eastern.</p>
<p>Western Connecticut State University - Blah academics, few parties.</p>
<p>Eastern Connecticut State University - Blah academics, more parties.</p>
<p>Southern Connecticut State University - Where the idiots go. Not really as awful as it is made out to be though. Big party school.</p>
<p>University of Hartford - Decent school, flies under the radar. Vin Baker went there.</p>
<p>University of New Haven - See University of Hartford minus Vin Baker.</p>
<p>Sacred Heart University - Big sports school. Big religious school. Better than the state schools for sure.</p>
<p>Fairfield University - A good school that is often overlooked. Probably next best after Yale, Trinity, Wesleyan, and Conn College.</p>
<p>Wow, I never realized how many schools CT had.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=huskem55]
CONNECTICUT.</p>
<p>UCONN- flagship state university. academic reputation is rapidly increasing, and deservedly so. great honors program. whole state is crazy for uconn basketball. easily best public university in new england.</p>
<p>YALE- cream of the crop obviously. new haven gets a bad rep, but its really actually quite charming, and the area around yale is a very nice college town.</p>
<p>WESLEYAN- excellent liberal arts school. very liberal, artsy, lots of hippies, lots of hipsters. great humanities. tough to get into.</p>
<p>CONNECTICUT COLLEGE- very underrated liberal arts school. awesome academics, beautiful campus, great sense of community, big on international studies. 10 minutes from the beach.</p>
<p>TRINITY COLLEGE- the other great nescac school in ct (wesleyan and conn are the others). the preppiest and most conservative leaning of the 3. great for econ and poli sci. beautiful buildings.</p>
<p>QUINNIPIAC- pretty campus, not that competitive to get in but has some great programs, especially in the health sciences. also has a respected law school.</p>
<p>FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY- jesuit school, good connections in nyc, decent school.</p>
<p>U. HARTFORD - private school, not hard to get into, but their art school is one of the tops in the nation (HARTT). new engineering school may make it more competitive, and new interactive technology program is one of a kind. very jewish.</p>
<p>SACRED HEART U.- 2nd largest catholic school in in new england. dont actually know anyone that ever goes there.</p>
<p>US COAST GUARD ACADEMY- extremely hard to get into, right across the street from conn college, very rigid environment but extremely successful students.</p>
<p>central ct, southern ct, western ct, eastern ct- publics for people that dont get into uconn. central actually has some decent sports teams.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Southern is also often referred to as “the teacher school” (at CHS, anyway). basically every teacher goes there, if not for their Bachelor’s, then for their Master’s. Also heard their nursing program is toughtoughtough, haha.</p>
<p>
[QUOTE=pip-pip]
Because of their own snobbery and ignorance, most ppl in CT will never give its state universities the credit they are due. It’s absolute foolishness. After all, you’re only demeaning your own tax dollars.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>it’s true. if anything, everyone’s only thought when it comes to state school is UCONN (but it makes sense). after that it’s like public education = out the window.
a lot of kids from my school go to **UCONN<a href=“it’s%20basically%20a%20given,%20and%20it’s%20%5Bi%5Deveryone’s%5B/i%5D%20safety”>/b</a>. they say it’s like central (high school, where i go) part two, but with more white people, lmao. i dunno. i think on it’s own, it’s a great public university (number one in NE, i think) and less costly. also, even if you’re not into partying all the time (which is also more of a frat thing - sometimes it’s actually hard to get into parties, from what i’ve heard), there’s definitely plenty to do since a) there’s a laaaaaaaarge student body and b) you can’t have a car until you’ve gotten 54 credits. everyone’s stuck there with you!</p>
<p>western is most definitely deeeeeeeeeeadddd. a friend of mine that goes there tells me the social scene is nonexistent, and he ends up leaving on weekends (or more often than that) to party in other places (mostly going to shows at like point beach or toad’s, etc.)</p>
<p>u. of bridgeport i only know one kid going there and he doesn’t talk much about it. UB always tries to reel local kids in with their full ride scholarships from the annual science fair, but it doesn’t work too often. many perceive it as a mostly out-of-stater’s place. the campus is small, but cute. not really prestigious in anyway, and it’s near downtown bridgeport, right next to seaside park.</p>
<p>sacred heart & fairfield u are seen as the “alternative” private schools for in-staters; like a back-up to out-of-state plans, since it’s private but closer to come than, say, Yale (and a bit easier to get into). SHU has a lot of concerts and stuff as well. FU is seen more as preppy, typical CT type of thing (since it’s in Fairfield and all).</p>