<p>no sarcasm...no joking...Cornell is a very friendly laid back place. </p>
<p>Stereo types are dangerous...</p>
<p>Have any of you that think I'm joking actually been there? Or are you just going off of what you've heard...</p>
<p>Stereotypes are based in truth, but can be negative when overapplied. Your laid back colleges are almost all going to be Liberal arts colleges, such as Bard, etc. Whoever said that Harvard and other ivy leagues are laid back is simply delusional-i bet most freshman at this brand of institution spend the majority of their first year getting over well understood inferiority complexes- YEAH not so laid back</p>
<p>yes VERY true etselec...that seems to be what's happening here- this thread is garbage</p>
<p>Wharf, no offense, but I'm having a hard time understanding what you said...</p>
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<p>What does this mean? That Harvard and Cornell students have inferiority complexes?</p>
<p>Brown, for sure!</p>
<p>MIT.. not relaxed, but friendly! Or at least what I learned from the myMIT blogs, :)!</p>
<p>well being at such great institutions has a tendency (granted not all) to make one feel somewhat inadequate, and therefore creating a more rigid ,tense atmosphere- i mean even smart people going to schools like these feel like they will be stupid compared to all of the intellect prescent---i don't know it make sense to me-----just read the harvard forum when they are posting their stats, ecs, etc. - you will most definitely pick up on what i'm talking about---its fairly pervasive please just admit it</p>
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<p>I think the point here is that if you as a student gravitate toward friendly and laid back people, you can find them at any school.</p>
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<p>I think you're overestimating these CC boards as representative of a given school's student body. There will be just as many laid back types at Harvard and Cornell as there are at Tulane. JMHO</p>
<p>yeah you are right it depends on the crowd you run with....and yes at times CC does seem to have an elitist tone- so right, not truely representative ROLL GREENWAVE!</p>
<p>Maybe one way to tell the "atmosphere" of the school is the "atmosphere" of the tour. When we were visiting schools, one of the top 5 school tours went out of its way to let us know how lucky we were to even be on the tour - let alone get in. The theme was, "the proud, the few, the select" and "you probably won't be one of them." Maybe that tone enhances status but it completely turned my daughter off.
The next week we went to Stanford. It was like the welcoming committee had heard she was coming. She was just one anxious student in the touring group - nothing special. But the tone was, "Welcome...we're so glad you are here...and we want to share something we love with you." They didn't have to make themselves look terrific at the expense of the highly anxious h.s. kids and their parents who were on the tour. She didn't get in...but we were impressed!</p>
<p>^^^YES, i agree completely alot can be garnered from the tone of the admissions office</p>
<p>Franklin W. Olin College for sure</p>
<p>sarah lawrence</p>
<p>Northwestern</p>
<p>Duuuuuuuuuuuuuke</p>
<p>Stanford
Dartmouth
Wellesley seemed nice.</p>
<p>Auburn-- the tour guide was a complete DITZ...God, was she dumb...and she had an annoying high-pitched, thick southern accent... the student body seemed pretty nice though lol...</p>
<p>UGA-- I mean...due to the large size of the campus we had to ride through the majority of the campus on a tour bus...so I couldn't get a real "vibe"...plus it was cold so quite a few people were inside...but the tour guides were knowledgable and nice...I really don't know what made me choose to attend...</p>
<p>I think it's pretty safe to say that most southern universities have a friendly campus atmosphere</p>
<p>I wouldn't exactly call the atmospheres at GaTech, Wake Forest, Duke, SMU, UK, etc. "laid back" The first three being workaholic and the latter two being high maintenance. Many schools in the south (ie big publics, bad schools) may be laid back about academics, but their study bodies are tense and high strung about their social, party life. I'd rather go for the tense, study all night vibe than that</p>
<p>Stanford
Brown (plus open curriculum!) does anybody know if UCLA, UCB, and Stanford are open curriculum too?</p>
<p>Yeah, how is Duke "relaxed?" Definitely Stanford and a lot of West Coast schools for sure (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSB, University of Washington, Loyola Marymount, Claremont McKenna), but most of the schools in South and East, not so much.</p>