<p>What is the WEIRDEST college? Base you answer on any criterion you desire. Just a fun question. I say Sara Lawrence! Chime in</p>
<p>I'll go with Reed based on the fact that the letter I received from them randomly has a periodic table on it. Not a creative periodic table listing the elements that make it a good school, the real periodic table.</p>
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<p>Now that the deadline is past-</p>
<p>Deep Springs</p>
<p>By far....</p>
<p>Bob Jones :rolleyes:</p>
<p>MIT.</p>
<p>Someone told me some kids have build their own iris scanners to get into their dorms.</p>
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<p>^ that's just plain nerdy, not weird. =p</p>
<p>I'd say U Chicago. It seems the "intellectual" colleges tend to be pretty weird. =p</p>
<p>I agree that the quirky "intellectual" schools with bizzare classes and without majors and with odd cool traditions are pretty weird. Pretty awesome, in my opinion, too :]</p>
<p>I love quirk.
Carnegie Mellon has a concrete wall where people paint messages...it is in the Guiness book for "most painted-on object". The thing is, you must stay by the wall and guard your message, otherwise it gets painted over. When I visited, someone had pitched a tent in the courtyard aka "The Cut" and was camping out to guard his message.</p>
<p>What's Bob Jones? Bible school?</p>
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<p>Carnegie Mellon's little fence is no different than Northwestern's rock. It's not that interesting, if you ask me.</p>
<p>That, said, I'll toss in my vote for the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Hell Yeah-
Deep Springs!</p>
<p>Maybe Rose-hulman with the crazy weird and invasive letters they send out
"You WILL apply today!!!!!"
what's up with that?</p>
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<p>Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, NC</p>
<p>Hippie weird but very cool. They have a Academic, Work, Service triad.</p>
<p>Chicago? Reed? CMU? Sarah Lawrence? Only on CC do the weirdest colleges match the top colleges and universities. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>What about the Gupton-Jones</a> College of Funeral Service?</p>
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<p>WEIRDEST COLLEGE IN THE WORLD= WEBB INSTITUTE....the school only offers a course in naval engineering and ship building...they have 2 floor library only on naval/ship books...and there school is like its own island and the university campus is humongous and only 40 kids are in that school LMAO...</p>
<p>bonus thing is that all you need to do is apply and express your live in ships, and have good grades in math and physics basically. The BONUS to this school is that they pay for your full tuition!!! even boarding!!!!...and only 300 kids apply each year LMAO...</p>
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<p>I have to agree with Reed. They apparently have a Communist Club, where they have painted tricycles that are scattered throughout the campus so you can ride them.</p>
<p>St. John's, Shimer, and other "books colleges." Rampant Grecophilia, often to the point of creepiness. Probably great for some people. Full of undergraduates who get huge kicks out of Aristotle.</p>
<p>Deep Springs.</p>
<p>"Deep Springs is a very small, very intense liberal arts college and working cattle ranch and alfalfa farm"</p>
<p>The student body is composed of about 25 male students. The student-teacher ratio is roughly 4 to 1.</p>
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<p>Reed also has system in place where you can put a red sticker on an object, leave it outside your door, and anyone can take it! It's called something "communist," I can't quite remember. So.... yeah. I think that's pretty out there.</p>
<p>Reed, St John's (Annapolis campus), Chicago, Hampshire, Grinnell, Oberlin. UCSC.</p>
<p>RKSK
Reek Kommunist **** Kollectiv</p>
<p>I prospied there a few weekends back and they had a fantastic giant scrabble game. Refreshments were free of course!</p>
<p>The Webb Institute is actually a very difficult school to get into, check out the average stats of the students..its one of the best engineering schools, but because it is so specialized it doesnt get much national hype. I dont understand why you think it is so funny.</p>