<p>Thanks everyone for the comments!
We have a good discussion going.
I think the ‘sports culture’ plays a decent role in affecting campus culture.</p>
<p>I’ve just been a tad disappointed to find that many of those at elite colleges seem to be a lot like the grade-grubbing, superficial types that flood my own high school. Many of the smartest and most interesting people I know from my school are attending Michigan actually. </p>
<p>However, from what I hear, Duke has a certain culture about it that makes it somewhat anti-intellectual and resume-padding. It isn’t a Southern thing because Penn (I visited last week) seems to have it to an even worse degree… lol and they don’t have so hot of a sports program. </p>
<p>The irony is that I’m going to look like the anti-intellectual for having a 3.7 GPA, lol. </p>
<p>My favorite schools so far have been Columbia, University of Chicago, and NYU, I loved Yale but I don’t think I’m getting in there, lol.</p>
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No, it’s not Southern. haha! Brah is the ‘socially appropriate’ way of saying bro when you’re really trashed, I think.</p>