<p>What schools have students that tend to be stuck up or snobby? I know that there are some good people everywhere, but what schools have a notable amount of unfriendly students?</p>
<p>Trinity College CT</p>
<p>From what I've heard, Loyola Marymount.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, and seen for myself...NYU.</p>
<p>On my visit to Dartmouth the April of my senior year my host left me wasted at Farm House. I'm not sure what Farm House is, and have never heard about it again, but I know that I was there and the kids were definitely not that nice.</p>
<p>That being said, the rest of Dartmouth is pretty sweet. So only a small portion of the students were weird.</p>
<p>Villanova has a ton of Snobby people, and NYU which has a weird artsy holier-than-thou vibe (and Stern is filled with angry Wharton rejects), as does Lafayette or any regional private school where wealthy kids from the suburbs go.</p>
<p>Again, I think you have to be careful with what you consider unfriendly or snobby. Everybody has different turn-offs.</p>
<p>For me, my specific turn-off was seeing students dressed like each other hanging out with each other. It didn't bother me that some kids were into their Mercedes and their Gucci sunglasses (I come from a place where those things are pretty common), but it did bother me when I felt like kids didn't rise above their superficial differences. It struck me as very "high-school," in that the popular kids hung out with popular kids and the nerds hung out with nerds.</p>
<p>Schools where I felt students kept to their own type, though there were different "types": Cornell, Penn</p>
<p>Schools where I felt that there were different "types" but that there was a campus unity and intermingling between Ralph Lauren polos and Target v-necks: Stanford, Tufts, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale</p>
<p>NYU is the worst in my book...Miami OH also has a fair share of jerks.</p>
<p>NYU. (10 char)</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=_3YWApRHfL8%5B/url%5D">http://youtube.com/watch?v=_3YWApRHfL8</a></p>
<p>I have to wonder, what about a college would you perceive to lead it to attract a student body that has a significantly higher proportion of snobs and unfriendly people than the general population? Granted, for any random 1,000 people there will be a certain number of socially abrasive individuals. So, a school with 20,000 students might have ten times as many such students as a schoool with an enrollment of 2,000. And social norms in some parts of the country are different than others - more blunt here, more superficially effusive there. But admissions committees certainly don't overtly look for students who will turn off other potential students. Do you feel that there's some characteristic of a campus or the population that it serves which would tend to produce a greater than anticipated yield of arrogant people?</p>
<p>Lets see, NYU:
- lots of wealthy kids from the surrounding area
- chip on shoulder for not getting into Wharton (if they are Stern)
- pretend like NYU is the best school ever, often list schools they turned down
- combine that with the typical New York attitude and you get...</p>
<p>Snobby.</p>
<p>^What exactly is the typical New York attitude, if you don't mind my asking?</p>
<p>I didn't realize a city with millions of people had one set attitude. Maybe you could help me out? New Yorkers are friendly if you approach us appropriately, if you feel threatened by us then you're probably just a pussy.</p>
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New Yorkers are friendly if you approach us appropriately, if you feel threatened by us then you're probably just a pussy.
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<p>That's a typical New York attitude. Thank you for the example.</p>
<p>Anyone who makes the blanket statement New Yorkers are unfriendly either:</p>
<p>A.) Hasn't been to New York and operates under reported stereotypes. </p>
<p>B.) Has been to New York, but spend most of their time in Times Square, the Empire State Building, The Statue of Liberty, and is ****ed because they got their wallet lifted off them because they were reckless on Canal Street.</p>
<p>C.) Doesn't have a clue how to pronounce "Houston Street."</p>
<p>lol @ Kafka, you're just trippin because DSC clowned you hard.</p>
<p>New Yorkers have the reputation of being brash and arrogant. You either love them or you hate them. And NYU students DO have the stereotype of being pompous and rather stubborn.</p>
<p>Premed students at most schools.</p>
<p>redknight and Kafka,</p>
<p>I've lived in NYC for the past 9 weeks and love it here. That being said NYU kids are lame. Typical NYC attitude = competitive, quick-paced and blunt.</p>
<p>Oh man you're in my neck of the woods! Glad to know I'm from snobville... I come from a school that must send 30 kids to NYU a year.</p>
<p>Realize, though, that it's just an attitude, and not a personality, The same way that many southerners, even if they're not nice people, exude that talky, folksy charm, New Yorkers are brash and unfriendly, even if they have a heart of gold.</p>
<p>I'm cool with New Yorkers, it's just when I get a setup like that, too easy. I think that some schools are snobbier, generally 'runner-ups' seem to be the ones. If you are insecure, because this was your number 2 and don't really want to be there, those people generally seem to be the snobbier people.</p>
<p>I've lived in New York (Union Sqaure) for a couple years and I can attest to the fact that NYU students tend to be intense and not that friendly. Go away to UNC, Brown, or Dartmouth for a weekend and you'll understand...I actually brought a few native new yorkers on a trip DC for the weekend and they could not believe how friendly people were outside of NYC.</p>
<p>I don't necessarily know how much "number 2 syndrome" affects overall snobbishness at a college. For many Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Duke, and Penn kids, Harvard and Yale were their first choices. At the same time, I imagine that there are a lot of NYU kids who had it towards the top of their list-- the chance to live in New York City and in Greenwich Village is a huge, huge draw. A lot of students in honors programs at state schools didn't have the program as their first choice either, but were pushed there based on financial necessity or bad luck in admissions.</p>