<p>These are interesting schools. </p>
<p>Haverford has too much of an athletic culture. Strong one = no good for me.</p>
<p>Another Definitely Carleton.</p>
<p>You’ve pretty well defined the student body there.</p>
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<p>so you don’t want to go because ppl like sports there?</p>
<p>Dumbest statement. ever.</p>
<p>I have to go with Macalester, for not only it is good for eccentric people, but also eccentric Highly intelligent people who want to study hard at the same time. Goucher is another good option, Hampshire so & so - many are very talented, yet others there opt for the ‘alternative’ education just so they can chill out and do very little for a lot of money in their four years.</p>
<p>If it matters at all, my brother could care less about sports.</p>
<p>Definitely Reed</p>
<p>Um Olin? idk</p>
<p>Haverford isn’t much a jock school, it doesn’t even have a football team…</p>
<p>Hampshire is a complete waste of money, I agree. All of these suggestions are good. If you wanted to be in the Amherst area, there are a lot of creative eccentrics at UMass. Actually there are probably a lot of state universities that have a lot of creative individualists, but I know in that bastion of hippiedom, there are plenty. Suny New Paltz, another good choice. Swarthmore for the hard-driven intellectual eccentric might be good. Definitely Reed, Oberlin, etc. In a whole different way of being eccentric, the St. Johns schools with their Great Books curriculum might fit a certain kind of person.</p>
<p>Evergreen State College in WA.</p>
<p>How about Sarah Lawrence? All their mailings start with: “You are different, so are we.” The school is small, writing focused, and twenty minutes by train outside NYC.</p>
<p>Warren Wilson, outside Asheville NC, which is a nice town.</p>
<p>St. John’s, like reed and to a lesser extent uchicago, has a nonconformist student body wedded to a highly structured, intellectually demanding curriculum.</p>
<p>Some of the schools with non-conformist reputations actually have people who seem to think alike. There might be differences about how quickly global warming will destroy the earth, or why George Bush is a war criminal. That’s about it.
I would not put the University of Chicago, Deep Springs, MIT, CalTech or Harvey Mudd in the think-alike category. St. John’s either.</p>
<p>+1 Wesleyan</p>
<p>Macalester fits your description perfectly and it is located right in the mack dab of St. Paul.</p>
<p>Chicago and Reed, but I would throw a vote for Pomona they have some interesting traditions</p>
<p>I think I might have a winner here haha. Deep Springs College</p>
<p>[Deep</a> Springs College](<a href=“http://www.deepsprings.edu/home]Deep”>http://www.deepsprings.edu/home)</p>
<p>I think wesleyan and vassar fit almost everything you listed.</p>
<p>Well, throughout my college search, I too was determined to find an eccentric student body to join! </p>
<p>After all these months of waiting my options have come down to Wesleyan, Macalster, and Middlebury (all schools that, I think, are pretty darn eccentric)!! </p>
<p>I believe I am going to Middlebury, which is eccentric but not overwhelmingly individualistic or radical:]</p>
<p>best wishes!</p>
<p>Brandeis is a good choice for students who are not especially into sports. The phys ed requirement can be fulfilled by some fairly sedentary choices, and there’s no football team, but there are sports actvities for those who like them. Social atmosphere is friendly, low key, unpressured, not especially alcoholic. Intellectual and artistic pursuits as well as “social justice” are valued highly. Individualized majors and combinations of subjects are common.</p>
<p>If you are female and are attracted by a beautiful campus in western Mass. with a culturally very diverse mix of students more intellectual and less offbeat than Hampshire–also consider Mount Holyoke College.</p>