<p>Kelsey, did I say that all people that go to big sports schools are like that? No, of course they aren’t. But big sports schools will attract more of the type of people that the OP doesn’t like. He felt that people at Duke and U Mich are superficial, but yet at Columbia, the only school of the 3 without a nationally relevant sports program, he was not disappointed. Obviously there is a trend there.</p>