Schools with happiest people

College Search & Selection
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<p>Regardless of prestige/rank/academics/everything, what schools do you think have the happiest (and unhappiest) students at them? - Of the top schools, mainly.</p>

<p>For example: This is probably a little untrue, but I hear people at mit are can be a little depressed because they find out there are so many other smart people. I also know of a certain state school where half the people there are miserable because they got turned down at their first choice and ended up there as a safety.</p>

<p>So what's your opinion?</p>

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<p>well... I have only visited a dozen schools or so but I must say, when I visited Colgate a lot of students seemed really happy and friendly.</p>

<p>At W&M I wasn't sure whether most of the students were just quiet and kept to themselves or they weren't happy or what but they didn't seem excited to be there to say the least.</p>

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<p>really? thats cool.. colgate.. maybe they are happy and smiling because they have whiter teeth.</p>

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<p>My experience has been that students are the happiest at: Brown, Dartmouth, UNC, UVA, Vassar, Stanford, Pomona. I might have left a few out.</p>

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<p>with or without drugs?</p>

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<p>Nebraska if the football team is winning</p>

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<p>For what its worth, Princeton Review has a ranking of schools with the happiest students. Stanford is #1.</p>

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<p>Where's this ranking?</p>

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<p>Ignore PR for everything, the surveys are done by students and are about as good as campusdirt.com, though it gives a general idea for some interesting categories like school paper and drugs</p>

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<p>UP Dilliman... go UP!!!</p>

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<p>Seems like people where I go (University of Tennessee) are pretty happy. Especially with the impending football season.</p>

<p>Your going to have Happy and Unhappy people everywhere.</p>

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<p>Of course the people at Stanford think they are happy... how could they not with that weather? Even if it does look like an oversized taco bell.</p>

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<p>no one seems to know where UP Dilliman IS!!</p>

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<p>According to the upcoming Princeton Review Ranking (sneak preview released via Yahoo! News):</p>

<p><a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060821/nym147.html?.v=60%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060821/nym147.html?.v=60&lt;/a>

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Best Professors - Middlebury College (Middlebury VT)
Most Beautiful Campus - Pepperdine Univ. (Malibu CA)
**Happiest Students - Brown Univ. (Providence RI)**
Most Liberal Students - Warren Wilson College (Asheville NC)
Most Conservative Students - Hillsdale College (Hillsdale MI)
Toughest College to Get Into - Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Cambridge MA)
Frat & Sorority Scene Biggest - DePauw Univ. (Greencastle IN)
Top Party School - Univ. of Texas (Austin TX)
Top Stone-Cold Sober School - Brigham Young Univ. (Provo UT)
Most Religious Students - Brigham Young Univ. (Provo UT)
Race / Class Relations Friendliest - Rice Univ. (Houston TX)
Most Diverse Student Body - DePaul Univ. (Chicago IL)
Gay Community Most Accepted - New York Univ. (New York NY)
Students Pack the Stadiums for their Teams - Univ. of Notre Dame (Notre Dame IN)
Best College Library - Harvard College (Cambridge MA)
Best College Newspaper - Yale Univ.  (New Haven CT)

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<p>Miami Beach Community College...</p>

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<p>Claremont McKenna....</p>

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<p>Seriously to find an answer to this question go to students review and if the majority are positive reviews, then the student body is happy.</p>

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<p>um...because virtually anyone (even if don't go to the school) can review a school on that students review site, I don't think its the most reliable source.</p>

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<p>Happiest students? easy Stanford ask anyone that's been there or lives there, I've talked to lots they all love it there (might be a bit biased but still...)</p>

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<p>From the places I've visited, the happiest students were at Claremont McKenna, which was a OMG I'm so glad I didn't screw up an go to a big school, happy, and Harvard which was a perpetual state of blissful happiness without regard of any negative ultility in the area.</p>