<p>Folk always call me quirky, so I am wondering, just for fun, which schools do you guys/gals think have the quirkiest types of student?</p>
<p>Please, give me a break</p>
<p>Quirky is such an overused word these days. I would rather find someone boring.</p>
<p>And if you surround yourself with quirky people, you’ll become normal. Think about that.</p>
<p>As chaosakita suggests, “quirky” is only useful within the context of personality AND interests AND environment. Cooper Union and Sarah Lawrence both attract unusual students … but the student populations are wildly different. (If you’re a computer nerd you wouldn’t be “quirky” at Cooper Union … but you would at Sarah Lawrence.)</p>
<p>Haha, the word being overused does not negate the fact that some people are more quirky than others. Truthfully, I don’t think I am. I consider myself pretty normal. However, for instance, I visited the Duke Ellington School of Arts just the past day, and I can tell you that the kids who attend this school maintain their individual quirks even amongst a group of other quirky kids.</p>
<p>You do realize you are on the Parents Forum, don’t you?</p>
<p>I imagine a young Mitt Romney clone would seem fairly quirky at, say, Oberlin College.</p>
<p>As Alfred E. Newman said many years ago, “Today’s non-conformists are becoming harder and harder to tell apart.”</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding rude, I think ‘quirky’ is a polite term for ‘weird.’</p>
<p>Yeah, weird is a compliment in my book.</p>
<p>Haitian - I think your OP is fair for the Parents Forum, so long as you better define what you’re looking for. Every school is “quirky” is some respects. (Harvard, doesn’t accept poor students, so any pothead with a 2.0 GPA would appear “quirky” … University of Florida offers little in the way of academic hand holding, so a needy student would appear “quirky” … etc.)</p>
<p>I think these schools that people refer to as quirky:</p>
<p>Bard
Bennington
Eugene Lang
Grinnell
Hampshire
Oberlin
Reed
Sarah Lawrence
Warren Wilson</p>
<p>Hmm, I was thinking more like:</p>
<p>MIT
Cal Tech
Cooper Union
Rose-Hulman
Missouri-Rolla
Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo
Colorado School of Mines
…</p>
<p>^^Agreed. I think the television show “The Big Bang Theory” has moved “quirky” to the STEM side of the spectrum.</p>
<p>Agree w/newhope, too often these days quirky is code for nerdy or geeky as opposed to quirky being code for hipster, cool, indie. BUT I think people that call themselves quirky think it’s a cool hip label which it may have been at one time…so OP you’ll have to figure out which definition you fit because anyone else can tell you where you’ll “fit in” without knowing anything about you.</p>
<p>University of Chicago</p>
<p>^ Ye-ow … how did I miss UChicago? Yeah, definitely.</p>
<p>Can you be more specific as to what makes you quirky/weird? I think everyone has their own picture what that means and it might not be what you are talking about. I would also say, who cares what other’s say, what do YOU want in a college?</p>
<p>China Blue picks the perfect solution…Chicago is the perfect blend of hipster quirks and nerdy quirks…the OP doesn’t need to decide which kind fits him/herself.</p>
<p>Given any unusual lifestyle choice:</p>
<p>Wealthy young people are considered quirky.
Wealthy middle aged people are considered characters.
Wealthy old people who might leave you something in their will are considered excentric.
Poor people of all ages are considered weird.</p>
<p>Not really, but one person’s quirky is another’s weird.</p>
<p>Beloit?..</p>
<p>I would add New College of Florida</p>