<p>^^^Pot calling the kettle black!</p>
<p>^ LOL @ Shank. Northwestern is one of the most laidback elite universities in the Midwest. </p>
<p>The one who seemed too full of himself has the screen name that starts and ends with an S.</p>
<p>Talk about thread resurrectionā¦</p>
<p>Clemson and any school in the south haha</p>
<p>Stanford, Grinnell and Whitman. </p>
<p>People at all of those schools were very friendly and not just to visitors. You could tell the people who were there(the professors, the students, the staff) were happy and liked each other. Good vibes at all three!</p>
<p>the most friendliest school, I would have to say, is good olā Texas A&M.</p>
<p>I stayed at Mount Holyoke overnight and couldnāt believe how sweet the people there were.</p>
<p>Carleton college, hands down.</p>
<p>Least: Berkeley, Harvard, Georgetown, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Chicago, Tulane
Most: Yale, UC Davis, University of Texas, Columbia, Michigan, Iowa, Virginia, Washington University</p>
<p>Most friendly: UVA, Duke, UNC, Pomona, Stanford, Columbia
Least friendly: Princeton - just incredibly snobby. Every single person I know from there has turned into a snob and is obsessed with āhigher-classā society.</p>
<p>Iām just wondering how all of these people generalize about the whole student body of a school while knowing 1 or 2 people there butā¦</p>
<p>From personal experience, Lewis & Clark is the most friendly.</p>
<p>Well speaking about the administration Iād say the following:</p>
<p>Most friendly is by far Villanova, couldnāt believe how welcoming it was.</p>
<p>Worst? Easily Boston College.</p>
<p>Folks, folks, folks . . .</p>
<p>Now you all are bright, sophisticated people. You know that there are thousands of people at each of these campuses. And you all know how the normal curve operates. I can assure you, without a doubt, that at ALL of these campuses, some students are really, really friendly, some are really unfriendly, and the vast majority are somewhere in between. Just as people in big cities tend to make eye contact and speak when they pass less often than people in small towns (because the large population makes it impractical - not because city people are unfriendly), youāll find that thereās more casual interaction on small campuses than large. But once you get a group of acquaintances on a large campus, youāll find that theyāre equally friendly to the small campus students.</p>
<p>I know dozens of Harvard students - all incredibly friendly. The one Princeton student I know isnāt snobby in the least. I found Northwestern students to be very kind during the college visit we made there. And UVA shows up on both the high and low end of the lists above. Letās face it - the student bodies are pretty much microcosms of the larger society.</p>
<p>And FWIW, on all campuses, some students are really, really attractive, some are really unattractive, and the vast majority are somewhere in between. Plus - in case you havenāt noticed - on all campuses, some students are really, really tall, some are really short, and the vast majority are also somewhere in between! :)</p>
<p>As a general rule, most schools in the South and Midwest are pretty friendly.
More specifically, Hendrix is definitely friendly. Everybody holds doors open, everybody says please and thank you and excuse meā¦ I had a bit of culture shock going from suburban Illinois, where people arenāt quite so nice! :D</p>
<p>I realize that overall friendliness can be totally hit and miss, but from what I can gather from various administration/faculty membersā¦</p>
<p>Most: UMich, The New School Jazz, USC, Boston Conservatory, Berklee C of Music.
Least: Cleveland Institute of Music, Boston U, and Carnegie Mellon. The head of the music department at CMU kept trashing one of my favorite musicals (called it āscreeching,ā etc) and reminded me way too much of Janice Dickinson.</p>
<p>Bump, bump, bump</p>
<p>Washington & Lee University is by far the friendliest college Ive visited because of the speaking tradition!</p>
This is an old thread but I thought Iād resurrect. Any updated thoughts?
Most friendly: Villanova - we were walking by the admissions office late in the afternoon, (this was a ādrive-byā visit when D was a HS junior), and a student came up to us, told us the admissions office had just closed, but that sheād be happy to give us a private tour ā definitely going above and beyond the call of duty as a tour guide!
Yep. I know two people who graduated from Princeton. One is one of the friendliest people Iāve met and the other is quite haughty and condescending. I expect each arrived at the school with their personality reasonably formed and Princeton isnāt responsible for either.