Relaxed/friendly atmosphere

<p>Stanford. Great people, laid-back atmosphere.</p>

<p>For when you visit here a link to an article that gives some advice</p>

<p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/29725/college_tour_taking_what_to_expect.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/29725/college_tour_taking_what_to_expect.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Swarthmore is definitely a pressure-cooker in terms of work, but the atmosphere is comparatively non-competitive and the people are nice.</p>

<p>YALE. Very relaxed, despite what you'd think, considering it's a top-tier Ivy. Yale prides itself on the happiness of its students. Everybody there is surprisingly quirky and accepting of quirks/idiosyncrasies in return.</p>

<p>Berkeley is so laid back it's ridiculous. Almost no other university can compare...</p>

<p>Uva. . . .</p>

<p>Plus I forgot UC Santa Barbara.</p>

<p>Yeah, I second Wesleyan as being really chill. I'm sick of cutthroatedness and this is where I'm going to school. Kids are all pretty studious but none of them are crazy cutthroat...
It's amazing!</p>

<p>UC Santa Cruz</p>

<p>yes ridethecliche, i'm really sick of cut-throatness. I'm currently in a top high school and really don't like nor appreciate how everyone is obsessively competitive. Hence, the college i'm looking for is one with a laid-back atmosphere, without compromising learning and education.</p>

<p>I've heard Bryn Mawr is friendly, not overtly competitive, but nevertheless fairly intense and kids tend towards the workaholic.</p>

<p>Brandeis is said to be friendly and not cut-throat--except perhaps for the premeds. Academically challenging but not a pressure cooker--especially in the humanities.</p>

<p>ahaha
about 90% of these posters are just voting for their own schools</p>

<p>what about NYU?</p>

<p>Stanford can't be mentioned enough for this.</p>

<p>lollerskates, a lot of us picked our school based on reasons which the OP wishes to have in a college.
This is why this advocation is justified, unless it's complete lies...</p>

<p>I'd vote for Duke (which, yes, is my school). Haven't seen it on here, and it is very self-competitive - but I've seen little-to-no competition with other students, or "cut-throat" competition. This is probably the reason why it's picked up the rep as the Ivy-caliber school without the "Ivy League" attitude - and also part of the reason why I picked/love it.</p>

<p>Cornell is very laid back and super friendly</p>

<p>Are you kidding....</p>

<p>I've heard Duke is really chill, but friends who went there told me that the student body tends to segregate itself a lot. Not something i'd want, although i'm not 100% sure how true just the surface look is.</p>

<p>Cornell, oh come on...</p>

<p>Cornell is very laid back and super friendly--sarcasm?</p>

<p>We suggest our own schools because these are the schools with which we are familiar.</p>