<p>I thought Boston College and Tufts were very friendly.</p>
<p>However, if we can base this off hearsay, then I would say that Dartmouth sounds the friendliest.</p>
<p>Wash U (Iâm international)</p>
<p>Bmod, you are completely wrong. I have many African-American, Hispanic, and Middle Eastern friends here (Vanderbilt) and they speak of how friendly everyone is, much more so than other places theyâve lived and visited around the U.S. My Middle Eastern friend from New York said he experiences much less racism and descrimination when heâs here than when he does when he goes back to New York. So, please donât stereotype an entire region, it makes you look ignorant.</p>
<p>When I was visitng colleges last year, here was how I felt:</p>
<p>Friendliest:
Notre Dame
Northwestern
UVA
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Unfriendliest:
Emory
UChicago
Georgetown</p>
<p>Williams is friendly, very friendly. Everyone I met there was eager to meet you and eager to lend a helping hand (when I was lost). The school doensât have a competitive feel either, which is a major plus! =)</p>
<p>On our tours â most friendly â Grinnell, Colby, Indiana, Hamilton. </p>
<p>Most unfriendly â Tufts, Penn.</p>
<p>hilary6, Iâm not trying to broadbrush Emory. Just a few bad vibes from admissions. Latest instance: Double legacy Emory acceptee turned down Emory for another another school. Applicant was set to continue the family tradition at Emory but, given the shabby treatment the parents received during the app process, turned down Emory with parentsâ hearty acquiescence. A few other instances.</p>
<p>my sister graduated from w&l and that school is INSANE. my other sister hated to visit bc she couldnt stand all the racism.</p>
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<p>Sorry, shouldnât have stereotyped an entire region. Meant to say clemson U is terrible.</p>
<p>so Zuma are you saying that its just the administration, not the students? (by the way thanks for being the only one to respondâa lot of ppl said emory isnt friendly w/out giving reasons why and a lot of poeple are wondering why they said this), so to other ppl:
<em>WHY DO YOU SAY EMORY IS UNFRIENDLY?</em>
(haha im not yelling just trying to get ppls attention)</p>
<p>Just a series of stories about bad experiences with the admissions folks.</p>
<p>StanfordâŠthey are so nurturing to their students and even the students there are so laid-back and friendlyâŠits not competitive like youâd expect. </p>
<p>and then Iâd add Dartmouth tooâŠthe ppl from there are simply awesome.</p>
<p>^^ agreed. I LOVE STANFORD</p>
<p>oh and actually, not to surprise anyone, but when i visited harvard, everyone was really nice, not including the admissions department employees. they put so little effort into their recruitment programs and website cuz they know they dont need to. but seriously, all the people i talked to there, and my tour guide were verrrry friendly. (and the five girls that were also taking the tour were bangin as hell).</p>
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<p>so true, so true. </p>
<p>Although, Alabama and Auburn are both extremely friendly to any kind of people.</p>
<p>University of San Francisco (USF) appeared to be extremely friendly when I visited the campus. The schoolâs overall message and goal is to mold their students into diverse, caring people who seek to better the world. I laughed at this, but after spending time on campus, I realized that the students, along with the whole administration really are friendly. They take extra care of their students, whether that involves getting prefered classes or possible internships. And donât be intimidated by the Jesuit Tradition, I consider myself agnostic, yet I even loved the church centered on campus. Its just a beautiful building and nothing more.</p>
<p>Once again, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>If you doubt it, check out the dartmouth forum and get a sense of the kind of students who apply to Dartmouth; the friendliest forum and the friendliest school.</p>
<p>I vote for Grinnell, Williams and Yale.</p>
<p>Stanford, absolutely. Students, teachers, staff⊠everyone. Friendly, laid-back, almost always giving honest smiles to people they pass by.</p>
<p>I also liked Dartmouth, although they had a bit of the prep-school-snobbery vibe, but not nearly as much as at Williams, Amherst, Harvard and Tufts.</p>
<p>kenyon college is, hand down, the friendliest campus i have ever visited.</p>
<p>allison,</p>
<p>maybe they just liked youâŠdid you think of that? Actually Iâve heard itâs quite friendly.</p>
<p>I second the vote for USF⊠âcatholicâ schools out here in cali have a different feel I think than places like holy cross back east, because catholic colleges dominate much of the private school landscape here, church definitely isnât like, a huge focus. Iâve been to a few USF parties, and trust me, if you arenât in to the morality, the devil is on campus at USF in equal force as any public or secular school. With that said, people at USF are friendly.
About Stanford⊠i donât doubt that everyone there is happy and friendly, but the place itself is rather incubatory, people arenât friendly in the outgoing, public kind of way. With that said, the only young Stanford grad I know is also one of the friendliest people I know (but then again, I remember her being friendly in high school too)</p>