<p>^CalTech vs Vandy.</p>
<p>Please elaborate? Just because Caltech has a lot of more nerdy/quirky type of people, that doesn’t make them any less attractive than the Southern bombshells you may find at Vanderbilt. Your definition of attractive is very narrow, and it does not encompass the whole meaning of the word.</p>
<p>MY BOTTOM LINE TO THE OP: If you’re willing to sacrifice academics (the whole point of college) to go to a school with “hotter” girls, by all means, go ahead and do it. If you can’t, or are unwilling to sacrifice academics, go to the school with “less hot” girls and sacrifice your libido. Yup. It’s your choice.</p>
<p>Saying that no school’s student body is any more attractive than any other is just as ridiculous as saying no school’s student body is any smarter than any other.</p>
<p>Sure, there is subjectivity to both criteria, but let’s be honest here; Intellect and attractiveness are more often than not inversely related, at least with regard to populations (as opposed to individuals). Sure, there are some smart pretty people and some dumb ugly people, but on average, the negative relationship exists between these variables.</p>
<p>And of course, there are other variables as people mentioned, like climate (warm=better looking), or reputation for particular social scenes.</p>
<p>And with regard to Cornell, there are attractive girls/guys here just like any other place. They’re just not quite as common as warm/dumb place like U-Arizona or Florida State. But in the end, what’s most important to you?</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone’s really serious about using student attractiveness as an actual factor in deciding where to go for college.</p>
<p>Obviously there are differences. Caltech attracts nerds, who are less likely to care about their appearance. </p>
<p>And since when does UCSD have a stereotype of hot chicks? Maybe you are thinking UCSB or SDSU?</p>
<p>I find nerds more attractive than people who don’t care about learning.</p>
<p>^^^ Yeah straight up man I’ve been to UCSD plenty of times girls aren’t that great.</p>
<p>UCSB/SDSU on the other hand… =]</p>
<p>But yeah I don’t consider myself TOO picky and when I went to Cornell I was very pleasantly surprised with the number of good looking chicks I saw. Honestly, there are PLENTY there to date and have fun with over the course of 4 years, you just have to find them.</p>
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Such a study has already been done by Chicago students (who else?).</p>
<p>[CollegeCuteness.com[/url</a>]
<a href=“Get a Life 2-4-05 – Chicago Maroon”>Get a Life 2-4-05 – Chicago Maroon](<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20061208045239/www.collegecuteness.com/index.php]CollegeCuteness.com[/url”>CollegeCuteness.com)</a></p>
<p>juliet capulet…seriously?</p>
<p>“I honestly don’t believe one school can somehow attract more attractive people than another school. It’s like saying smart people are all ugly and that blondes are all stupid. There are attractive people everywhere and ugly people everywhere. I don’t think the % of attractive people vs. the % of unattractive ones vary much from school to school. If you’re going to school based on this reason, you should go to drama school. Those students pretty much have to be attractive (there are exceptions, of course, but on the whole, they are).”</p>
<p>This is pretty bad logic. I think I disagree with every single point you’ve tried to make. For one, some schools clearly have more attractively students than others (on the physical level). What I mean is, School A might have a much higher percentage of attractive students than School B. Some schools are of course roughly equal, but other schools blow schools out of the water. It’s like saying that you think all schools have students with roughly the same intelligence. Seriously? Also I have a friend going to drama school, and he informs me that most of the students are nothing close to hot. You forgot that many go to this type of school for the technical or production aspect of drama. This could, of course, only be his school, but I doubt it. </p>
<p>Modulation I would not make it a large factor, but I can certainly see it being another “con” or “pro” on a list taking everything into account. And if two schools were tied in all other aspects, I would not hesitate to pick the school with more attractive students of the opposite sex.</p>
<p>This idea isn’t like the idea that smoking leads to lung cancer. There’s an obvious cause and effect relationship there. This one is simply a correlation, which means that they tend to go hand-in-hand, but it is not definitive. Also, you’d be surprised how attractive many theater crew students are. Actors most definitely have to be attractive, unless they are extraordinarily talented. They are trying to make money, and due to our superficial society, we only like to see attractive people on TV and movies. </p>
<p>Obviously, I concede that a state school in a warm climate probably has “hotter” people than in a technical school. But I am obviously not using the same judgment as you are. Personally, I find studious people more innately attractive than jocks who could care less about school. But putting my feet in yours (and the other guys on here’s) shoes, I can somewhat understand that blondes with big boobs and perfectly sculpted bodies are more appealing to you. </p>
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<p>That study only covers 10 schools, and Cornell’s not on there. I’m not convinced.</p>
<p>I strongly encourage college1221 to attend emory or vanderbilt. Or U Miami or U Texas.
There are many people on the Cornell waiting list who may have less discriminating taste, and hence might better value the opportunites there.</p>
<p>I do not recall D2 telling me about any required picture, or appearance certification, on the Cornell application, but I guess it must be there, huh? Otherwise how could they ensure so accurately that 13,000 undergraduates would so closely share these common appearance attributes, compared to similarly academic institutions?? Surprised they would select on that basis, but the “facts” speak for themselves, don’t they, college1221?</p>
<p>Emory is calling you. answer the call.</p>
<p>this is funny. college1221, if you base your college selection on attractiveness, then you have rather pretentious priorities. oh, and juliet cap, there WILL be differences in attractiveness from school to school.</p>
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<p>Yes most attractive girls go Greek. By most I mean almost all. With few exceptions they end up in 5 sororities. </p>
<p>Then again attractiveness is subjective I suppose.</p>
<p>But what you’ll find in the greek system is that the number of cool guys is far less than the number of good looking girls in each class–as there are only around 8 good fraternities each with classes of 14-22 versus the 5 sororities each with around 40 girls (although there are always some randos).</p>
<p>I think it is true each school attracts certain types of people. Most people are average looking, there are a handful of people that are extremely attractive or ugly. When you are 18-22, most of you are in the prime of looking good, because it is time for you to attract mates. People that are more academic tend not to focus on their looks as much. Girls do not spend hours each morning on their hair, makeup or clothes before they go out, because they were probably studying until 2-3am the night before. Whereas girls at other less demanding schools would have more time to go to spa to get a facial, perfect hair cut, and halter tops with hip hugging jeans. Most girls can look pretty good if they put time into it. It’s amazing how good they could look if they would just get out of their sweat shirt/pants. </p>
<p>Same thing could be said for guys. I walked through an engineering building (the new one) a few weeks ago, there were so many guys there with their eyes glued to their paper and laptop. You could tell they haven’t cleaned up in a few days. Women always wondered why some of those nerdy guys in college looked so good 10 years later, and it doesn’t hurt they are the ones making a lot of money. It is because they cleaned up - nice suit, expensive hair cut, smelling good - voila, you have a guy from GQ.</p>
<p>FYI - my girls are brainy, that’s why one of them is at Cornell. But ever since they were little, rule of thumb, don’t walk out the door unless you are looking good.
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<p>People are attracted to each other initially because of looks, but it is what’s underneath that sustains a relationship.</p>
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<p>but if you look at the individual girls in those “5 sororities” some of them are not great at all, average at best. and for those other 6 you seem to forget about, some are actually more attractive than the girls in the “5”. and those girls in the 5 seem to be more superficially make up pretty. ew…cakey foundation :[</p>
<p>Bottom line, if you are good looking you will find plenty of good looking women in a class of 3300 and expanding group every year with freshman admittance. If you aren’t? Doesn’t matter where you go.</p>
<p>DaFunk—Just curious…which 5 sororities are these?</p>
<p><em>FLAME WAY RETARDANT</em>
@rl41090
Don’t start this.
You can wait till you get on campus to find out.</p>
<p><em>FLAME WAR RETARDANT</em></p>
<p>^^^ I know everyone is going to have a different opinion, but I’d just like to hear his :)</p>