<p>1 United States Merchant Marine Academy<br>
2 New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
3 United States Coast Guard Academy<br>
4 State University of New York--Stony Brook University<br>
5 Clarkson University<br>
6 University of Hawaii at Manoa<br>
7 St. John’s University (NY)<br>
8 Illinois Institute of Technology<br>
9 Fisk University<br>
10 Hofstra University<br>
11 Drexel University<br>
12 University of California--Riverside<br>
13 State University of New York at Albany<br>
14 George Mason University<br>
15 State University of New York--Purchase College<br>
16 Hampton University<br>
17 Stevens Institute of Technology<br>
18 Case Western Reserve University<br>
19 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus<br>
20 United States Air Force Academy</p>
<p>worried student,
That's the beauty of the college search process-you can go wherever you want. I don't know if you've ever been to Provo, Utah or not, but BYU is located in a beautiful setting and the kids are about as straight and clean cut as they come. If you're from Utah and/or a Mormon, then BYU is pretty close to heaven on earth. BYU may not be for you (or me as I'm not a Mormon), but those folks seem to like it pretty much and their graduates do very well in the business world.</p>
<p>I would think everyone would be happy there.. hmmm</p>
<p>It is kindof funny looking at the second list and looking at the names it just feels so true when you read the names that those schools are the most unhappy institutions in the world!
Just look at 'Drexel' ...blech</p>
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<p>I'm not. It fits perfectly with cognitive theory. Tufts has a reputation for being a back-up school for those who don't get admitted to the Ivy League. That's not completely fair. There are bound to be many students there who had Tufts as a first choice. Still, I've had two student-led tours there, and both guides spent a lot of time talking about how they were glad to be at Tufts instead of an Ivy League school. The technical terms for that is "protesting too much." ;-)</p>
<p>I mean, nearly half of the class at Tufts is accepted via ED, so that means that at least that many kids wanted to go to Tufts over every other school.</p>
<p>The size is also pretty ideal ("not too big that you get lost; not too small you know everyone"); as is the location (just outside a major city); and the emphasis on undergraduates is similar to that at LACs, yet it is still in a research university setting -- best of both worlds in that sense.</p>
<p>Wow, I am surprised at the schools that made the "least happy student" list. Groenveld, my son has 2 friends at Drexel (freshmen), and they are actually happy. I would never have guessed that they would be happy there.</p>
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worried student,
That's the beauty of the college search process-you can go wherever you want. I don't know if you've ever been to Provo, Utah or not, but BYU is located in a beautiful setting and the kids are about as straight and clean cut as they come. If you're from Utah and/or a Mormon, then BYU is pretty close to heaven on earth. BYU may not be for you (or me as I'm not a Mormon), but those folks seem to like it pretty much and their graduates do very well in the business world.
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Yea, I was obviously joking around. I actually know quite a bit about BYU as I was contemplating applying there. It is an excellent school academically, but I like to party and didn’t think I could give up some of the “social” events that I enjoy participating in, when all of the other colleges I was applying to did not have the same type of rules. I also knew that if I met a girl at BYU, there was no chance of me having any kind of relationship since I wouldn’t be willing to convert. I’m not Mormon, but if I was, I would have strongly considered BYU.</p>
<p>I am not surprised about University of Hawaii being on the 2nd list. White students tend to be unhappy and have a hard time fitting in. This has been the experience of my high school classmates who went there.</p>
<p>"I mean, nearly half of the class at Tufts is accepted via ED, so that means that at least that many kids wanted to go to Tufts over every other school."</p>
<p>Much of this has more to do with strategically trying to game the system, knowing that it would be very unlikely to gain admittance to more selective or "real" first-choice schools. One in the hand could be better than four in the bush.</p>
<p>btw. I know a guy at Drexel and he loves it too. Just....come on ! Doesn't the name want to make you want to throw gasoline in a car, sit in in and play with a lighter!!!(mild exaggeration)</p>
<p>I have nothing against the name. Drexel is a relatively common German surname. No complaints there. It's also good for engineering, film, and other techy stuff. I just hate University City (This also includes Penn and U Arts)...maybe it's because I live in a Philly suburb, but a slightly revitalized urban district (previously known as "black bottom") surrounded by the third-worst neighborhood in Center City (followed by Southwest and North Philly) doesn't quite do it for me.</p>
<p>I find it funny that a lot of new jersey schools are on the unhappiest student's list while TCNJ (i'm not really counting Princeton here. That's in a seperate state of mind) is on the happiest. It's easy to tell which school is favored by the government.</p>
<p>Here in Philly Drexel's well known and pretty much respected. I agree a lot of people I know like it, it's right adjacent to Penn.</p>
<p>NJIT otoh is bad. Newark is horrible, a lot worse than West Philly (at least worse than Univ city). There's a world of difference between NJIT and TCNJ, which is in a nice suburb.</p>