<p>Notre Dame
Washington and Lee
Bucknell</p>
<p>Hampden-Sydney College (for guys)</p>
<p>I would agree that King's Point is an excellent academy- a friend of mine, husband attended in the late 70's ( he is also AA)
But while I think he has excellent character- I don't know if I would perceive military schools in general to be putting out " nice" guys.</p>
<p>When I think of " nice" I think of relaxed and outgoing- but of course I have known tightly wound shy people who were nice too.
;)</p>
<p>mini: smith doesn't have an agreement with Princeton.
Through admissions agreements with Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Tufts University, and the University of Michigan, students who maintain an overall GPA of 3.5 and a GPA of 3.5 within the major are automatically admitted to graduate study in an engineering discipline at these schools.</p>
<p>Davidson, Wake Forest, Rice, William & Mary all have a great happy vibe to them. They are smart, humble, and happy to be there.</p>
<p>I have like a lot of folks from James Madison U, College of Wooster, Wittenburg U, Juniata College. I also like the Jesuit colleges.</p>
<p>Also St Mary's in MD, College of Charleston, Lawrence, St Olaf's , Colorado College, Grove City, Miami of Ohio</p>
<p>i was reading pg1, i agree about tufts. The students there are the type to hold open doors for random people who are a few steps behind.</p>
<p>University of Chicago. Self-selected kids seem to be very happy with their lot.</p>
<p>Just some observations, Lionhead. Of course there are nice kids everywhere.</p>
<p>Re: BC being nice... When we visited this year, we heard how wonderful the kids were, community service was a joy for them - not a service, etc. ad nauseum. When we got back to our car, the battery was dead. Not one person stopped to help us - even when we asked for help. In fact, at least 2 carloads of people LAUGHED at us as we tried to jump start by pushing the thing with my daughter in the front seat. In our opinion, not so nice.</p>
<p>^^^Supports the statement oft-heard on CC, "Your milage may vary..."</p>
<p>Hee, hee, Woody. I got a horrible flat tire right outside a highschool that had just been written up in the local news about how community service, giving, helpful they were. Something that was considered notable about the particular school. It was a freezing cold day, and it was all I could do to get the car out of the way into the parking lot. Not a single kid offered a hand. A faculty member came and asked if I could just move the car a little bit more into a bona fide space, when the tire was flat, flat, flat and I had already endangered the wheel. Not a single offer of help from the kids. An all male catholic school, by the way.</p>
<p>Wash U and Northwestern, both have a bunch of nice, smart kids</p>
<p>From my experience, University of Chicago kids are not that nice, at least to Northwestern kids like me. I've also found that the majority of WashU and Northwestern kids I've encountered are (genuinely) friendly.</p>
<p>There are nice kids and not nice kids everywhere. The highschool story I told is not meant to imply that the school is full of jerks. I just did not run into the helpful kids in the parking lot that day. But there are some schools that seem to turn out very nice people, and the families and students who send their kids/go there seem, oh, so , much happier overall in a very nice way. Those are the schools I listed. College of Charleston and St Mary's, in particular, have been catching my attention. When my son visited Fairfield U in CT, he just loved the atmosphere, and the kids were just very nice there. All the kids we know who went there are just very sunny kids. That's not to say they don't have issues and problems. They do. But this is just a general feel that I got at certain schools and with people.</p>
<p>A third vote for Colorado School of Mines... best for both engineering west of the Mississippi and has snow.</p>