<p>Ten best things about New Jersey:</p>
<p>USC: I heard all the rich kids from CA go there..and also the people who didn't get into Stanford or UCLA</p>
<p>I agree totally with huskem55!!! </p>
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<li><p>NYU, BU, and any other enormous overpriced, overrated private school with no real campus. (State schools are much better values.) </p></li>
<li><p>Cal Tech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, schools in the techie genre</p></li>
<li><p>Any fundamentalist religious school</p></li>
<li><p>Boston College, Holy Cross, Notre Dame- Overrated schools, many now offer simply a patina of a real Catholic education. What's the point?</p></li>
<li><p>^^USC -I can't shake the unfortunate tag, University of Spoiled Children, like BU and NYU with a nicer campus</p></li>
<li><p>Any women's college</p></li>
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<p>I will agree that USC has tons of Californians, and wealthy ones. Yet, what college on either coast doesn't?</p>
<p>But about them all being rich: it's just not true. USC has very generous scholarships in many forms. And the people who go there are generally very, very cool.</p>
<p>And, no, I'm not a student there. I just happen to know a lot of worthwhile ones who attend USC.</p>
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USC: I heard all the rich kids from CA go there..and also the people who didn't get into Stanford or UCLA
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<p>Only kid I know at USC is a middle class kid from Pennsylvania who is one of the nicest kids I've ever met.</p>
<p>i would never go to MIT</p>
<p>"eating clubs. I never thought I'd have anything good to say about frats, but compared to the eating clubs they are bastions of egalitarianism and openness."</p>
<p>Actually ilovebagels you're dead wrong. First of all, all 10 eating clubs are open to the ** entire student body ** practically every Thursday and Saturday (Charter Club does Friday), beer is on tap and on the house, and practically everyone goes to Houseparties and Lawnparties in the fall and spring respectively, because its a lot of fun with live music and all. </p>
<p>For all intents and purposes, besides a few banquet events, the only thing non-members can't do is take meals there (members go to the Eating Club instead of the residential college dining commons, and they pay for that).
Eating clubs are a great place to meet lots of other students that you wouldn't see in your residential college commons, and have plenty of fun, even if you don't want to drink. Princeton students can even bring guests from other colleges to accompany them (as long as they have a student ID).</p>
<p>To me, the eating club experience is a lot more "egalitarian" and "open", than the typical frat for the Princeton student.</p>
<p>MIT, CalTech, UChicago, UPenn, & Uvirginia.....YUCK!</p>
<p>Penn=?
UVA=Pretentiousness?</p>
<p>Boston University</p>
<p>^^^ Reason(s) being?</p>
<p>Anyplace with more than 4000 people</p>
<p>Anyplace in a really sketchy area- The "kill Trinity students" signs in Hartford kind of scared me off the place.</p>
<p>Amherst- I know I'm crazy, but I just hated that school. My mother and I got there for our tour, and I immediately turned to her and said that we had to leave.</p>
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Not to defend the practice, but I hear that the interracial dating ban was imposed only after the parents of a female Asian student sued the school after she had dated a young white man
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wow, that's just..i don't know how to finish this sentence. (i guess i just did)</p>
<p>TBH, i would never go to a school below top 50 (somewhere there) because after all that I've done, I think I deserve better (no offense). If I happen to not get in anywhere I've applied, I'll take a gap year/half year. Or go to a community college, do well, transfer. If all fails, I will just work for my dad at his company, because at the end of the day, experience>>>education to some extent.</p>
<p>BO5TON:
I was just trying to tease you. I don't know anything about Boston University.</p>
<p>Uiuc............</p>
<p>MIT~~
never.
p.s. I am a new comer</p>
<p>Any place south of Pennsylvania (except Cali) or west of Illinois (except Cali).</p>
<p>My brother goes to Princeton and his impression of the eating clubs is certainly not as rosy as yours. For so much 'egalitarianism' and 'openness' he sure does have to sneak in through windows a lot...</p>
<p>kill trinity student signs?</p>
<p>Yale
Northwestern
Almost all of the Florida schools</p>