<p>In one of Howard Greene’s books, he reports the survey results of questions posed to a number of students at various top colleges. The surveys were taken more than a decade ago now, but campus cultures change glacially. One question was “Are your classmates cut throat?” Nobody at Wesleyan University in Connecticut said yes. One-half of one percent of Brown U. students said yes. (The high was 40% at one school.) I think that’s a pretty good sign that these schools don’t have competitive cultures.</p>