<p>Nope. You can’t have a school full of nerds and jocks. Then it becomes a school of “well-adjusted intellectuals” and you might as well go to Princeton.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, MIT, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>“Michigan state, U of Florida, USC, and U of Texas-austin are known for being the nerdiest and most hardcore study schools.”
i’m LOLing</p>
<p>I don’t believe that you need to seek out a geeky, nerdy college. For example, I go to Wharton, which many would expect to be totally anti-intellectual and full of cut-throat type-A psychopaths. However, I would say that most people at Wharton are very, very intellectual and would have been considered nerds at my high school. Top schools are all full of nerds. There’s no need to seek out an excruciating college experience.</p>
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<p>But would math majors at undergraduate-only LACs be the most academically intense math majors? From what I saw at a university, the most academically intense math majors were taking graduate level courses as undergraduates – such students may not want to attend undergraduate-only LACs because they would run out of courses to take.</p>
<p>Also, even the high intensity math majors were not necessarily “nerdy”. Math is not a very time consuming major (no labs or late nights spent on computer programming assignments), so that leaves plenty of time to party.</p>
<p>^^I could have picked any one of a number of STEM majors. As I said, in my original post:
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<p>Yale, for example, has only a 3% concentration of Math majors, about the same as Wesleyan. I chose Math precisely because it is so much less dependent on laboratory research; if someone burns through the regular curriculum an LAC can always arrange for tutorials and various capstone projects to extend into the advanced reaches of the field.</p>
<p>I don’t know how Michigan State University would get on the “nerd” list. It is a big party school, no question about it!</p>
<p>“Michigan state, U of Florida, USC, and U of Texas-austin are known for being the nerdiest and most hardcore study schools.”</p>
<p>lmao add arizona state to that list</p>
<p>Chicago is in no way fun… it is droll, so much in fact that the library science majors at most schools are more exciting than most students at University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Just because you enjoy the more geeky/ studious activities does not mean that you like to be bored does it? If you like to watch paint dry go to University of Chicago… if not go to MIT.</p>
<p>Seriously MIT is the Bill to your Shatner. You can try to figure out the age old question of which side do you fit in on? And what chemical can we slip into our friends drink to make him pee blue. You really should like MIT.</p>
<p>If for some reason you want other options… i noticed that no one had mentioned Cal Poly. I dont know if you have ever been to Pomona, but it is really freakin awesome! And Cal Poly would be right up your alley.</p>
<p>OP - I would recommend that you pick a school where there are a sizbale number of geeks and nerds and not necessarily one that comprises a majority of the student body. Who knows? You may want to migrate from one group to the other or (to use an engineering term) <em>oscillate</em> between them. Four years is a long time to say that you definitely won’t change as a person.</p>