<p>I'm looking at colleges like Reed, UChicago, and Bard. Can anybody recommend schools with peculiar student bodies and rigorous academics? </p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Oberlin is very weird.</p>
<p>so I’ve heard.</p>
<p>Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Warren Wilson and Hampshire come to mind</p>
<p>Maybe even Haverford</p>
<p>Earlham College.</p>
<p>Marlboro College, New College of Florida.</p>
<p>Carleton…</p>
<p>Vassar…</p>
<p>bennington</p>
<p>Wesleyan…</p>
<p>Middlebury has some of the aformentioned population.</p>
<p>Middlebury? Too preppy. Grinnell in Iowa.</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence</p>
<p>Reporting from here at the University of Chicago, students are more and more mainstream and professionally oriented. And also smarter than in the past, sopping up the echo-boom overflow from the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Agreed with danas. There are still people here, probably more than any other university, who speak about literally nothing but their major or their classes, but with every incoming class, it seems that this number decreases. It’s still considerably less professionally oriented than its peers, but I wouldn’t say that it’s a terribly ‘quirky’ school.</p>
<p>really? I spent my summer taking a class there (attic greek) and I became very fond of their sense of humor (graffiti on the regenstein, uncommon admissions blog, weird street art and signs in buildings, some passionate grad students).</p>
<p>Maybe I was just taking the kind of class that would attract those people. Either way, I fell thoroughly in love with the university.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions everybody.</p>