Scattershooting HYPSM and the Ivies

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I found Harvard to be the least attractive females. Our guide at MIT was pretty cute, Yale girls weren’t so awful (but not great either). Really, Jones, I thought Princeton had the most “normal looking” (and thereby attractive) student body.</p>

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<p>There are plenty of decent looking broads at Princeton.</p>

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<p>^^Harvard’s females were certainly not attractive at all. Neither were MIT’s (I don’t do asians, and the rest are, well, you know, engineering females). I actually didn’t see too many females at Princeton, to be fair, so I could be mistaken. Cornell certainly had the most attractive females of any school I’ve seen thus far. Our guide was the only asian girl I’ve ever been attracted to. If I had to rank:</p>

<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>MIT</li>
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<p>So Princeton is actually better off than I may have suggested in my original post. Perhaps that’s because I didn’t think the girls at Harvard or MIT were worth mentioning :P</p>

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<p>How about UPENN and Stanford, how are their campuses?</p>

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<p>Stanford girls were disappointing, given that they were California Girls. They are like Berkeley-spawn.</p>

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<p>Intelligent guys on the prowl, I like it</p>

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<p>It’s like The Big Bang Theory.</p>

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<p>There’s more than just a 24 hour visit and flipping through some brochures involved with determining fit, and going to a place that “fits” is important to people who aren’t attending college primarily as a means to an already chosen end. Plenty of people aspiring to work on Wall Street want to attend HYPSM + their equivalents because it sets them up for their dream jobs, and that’s all fine and dandy. It’s just that other people (including me) want to attend schools where we can explore our interests in a comfortable environment that is most conducive to our intellectual exploration (I sound like such a loser in that last sentence but w/e).</p>

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<p>the only ivies that i like are: i like Yale, Princeton, UPenn & Cornell (still not sure if i’d like it since it’s in a rural area…but it seems nice)</p>

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<p>I found Cornell’s campus so depressing and cold so I’m really surprised everyone likes it so much!! Excluding Cornell, I’ve only ever been to Princeton but I loved it there. It’s the most perfect place I’ve ever been. I would like to visit Yale as well.</p>

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<p>The Ivies all have Quidditch teams, duh!</p>

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<p>^Screw Quidditch, I’m gonna be recruited to play World of Warcraft for the Ivies. OH YEAH.</p>

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<p>Kind of off topic, but Vanderbilt had some of the hottest chicks in the south.</p>

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<p>^ that’s definetley not off topic.</p>

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Well you can’t really say that just because of one tour guide. Really its better to ask current students about how attractive girls are. If anyone actually goes to these schools, please please let us know.</p>

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<p>I detested Harvard.</p>

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<p>Haha, I missed this whole conversation yesterday, but ---- ouch, all the Harvard hating :p!</p>

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<p>Like what?</p>

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<p>At the upper Ivies, it’s very unlikely to get accepted, so many just apply first, and only visit once accepted. Why limit your options before you get accepted? Of course, if you really detest the school from visiting, then don’t apply, but I think most people would at least feel moderately happy at most schools.</p>

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<p>Like actually researching (not just reading the names of) different student organizations that you could be involved in, communicating with multiple current students of different backgrounds, communicating with current professors to get a feel for what the professors are generally like (at least in your prospective major), looking at schedules of campus events to understand what kind of events the school organizes and maybe even attending an open campus event, etc.</p>

<p>People think they can do all of these effectively during their campus visit and through brochures, but they can’t. At least not effectively. I know you’ll just say “yes, you can”, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Determining whether you really click with a school takes time, not just a short visit and a glance through extremely generic brochures that are sent to thousands of other students. Again, if you’re using college primarily as a means to an end, then this won’t be as important.</p>

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<p>For people with pretty general interests who are weary of being overly swayed by a small sample of anecdotes, most of these methods will not help them find a school that seems to “fit” them.</p>