<p>Hey everyone</p>
<p>I applied to Cornell, Dartmouth, and Yale, and was wondering which of these was the most humble…I can’t stand stuck up I’m better than you kids…what do you guys think?</p>
<p>What about the entire ivy league?</p>
<p>To give yourself an idea of the sense of entitlement and arrogance at the Ivies, you might want to read this article and especially the comments underneath it:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517274[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=517274</a></p>
<p>But I’d hesitate to call a bunch of schools “arrogant” or “humble.” There will always be stuck-up people, and maybe at some schools that sort of attitude is more common (after all, top schools have a lot to be proud of). However you’re also bound to find a LOT of humble people at top schools because everyone is smart and talented, and you constantly have to prove yourself to keep up with all the high-achievers around you. Nowadays especially colleges are making an effort to attract students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds, and this definitely contributes to a more humble campus atmosphere.</p>
<p>jgonzo, I urge you not to pick a college based on such subjective criteria. Every college has a mix of people, so just go for the one that appeals to you the most.</p>
<p>princeton shouldn’t be on the list of humbles :D</p>
<p>SteveUK:</p>
<p>Well, if he’s not going to make a judgment based on “subjective” criteria, what objective criteria would you have him use to measure “appeal.”</p>
<p>cornell?..</p>
<p>Tarhunt:</p>
<p>Actually, I didn’t mean to say that subjective criteria per se are bad, but I do think this particular criterion is. The problem is that you cannot judge the whole student body of a college from a few isolated experiences, and I certainly wouldn’t draw too much from the biased opinions of people on this board, who mostly have college affiliations already. (No offence intended)</p>
<p>So by all means be subjective, but let your judgements be your own and not someone else’s. Visit the colleges you like, explore their courses, find out what facilities are available… but don’t assume that a university is full of snobs just because some random person (who is probably jealous) said so. There is a range of people to be found everywhere, so you will always find your niche.</p>
<p>i wouldnt limit “stuck up” to just the ivies.</p>
<p>Duke, etc are also said to be pretty bad in that regard…who knows what the truth is though</p>
<p>Also, don’t confuse pride with being stuck up. </p>
<p>But yeah, ditto to previous posts, just go to where you feel most comfortable, and don’t allow generalizations to paint a picture of everyone who attends said college.</p>
<p>Cornell, they have nothing to be proud of. (jk =p )</p>
<p>I don’t see how any Ivy League could be humble: the name Ivy League is enough to make their student bodies puff their chests out in (perhaps overblown) pride/conceit. At any rate, I’m guessing comparatively, but Cornell, I think, would probably be “humble” (again, in comparison), though I have no data to support this.</p>
<p>A relative and a good friend of my S’s either went to or are at Yale. They report knowing some really nice people there and had nothing but good things to say about it. Most people were quite “down-to-earth,” well except when two guys called and had a helicopter come and pick them up to go to NYC.</p>
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<p>Wow. That’s pretty… up in the sky? (as opposed to ‘down to earth’)</p>
<p>Groan…</p>
<p>I’d suppose Brown would qualify, but that’s a personal thing I guess.</p>
<p>P.S: @ TOCF: Fascinating discussion in progress, alert! :D</p>
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The second part of that statement is far more accurate than the first.</p>
<p>Do you go to Duke, warblers?</p>
<p>I’m a Dad in here so my input is dated … I can best speak to Cornell which I attended as an undergrad and which I picked AFTER my overnight visits, over other higher rated schools, because of the “fit” I felt when I visited … a fit that panned out as true for me. </p>
<p>What sold me was how the students were smart, active, and motivated but seemed like regular Joes and Sues. Using a March example, it seemed to me a much higher percentage of Cornellies would be hanging out watching the NCAAs than at a lot of other top-tier schools. As an adult I would describe my persona as a 16-22 as a stealth intellectual … I liked academic challenges and doing well academically … however, I also didn’t care or want other people to know how well I was doing academically or to spend my free time focussed on intellectual pursuits. All schools have kids like this … to me, at the schools I visited, Cornell by far the feel of the most kids being similar to me.</p>
<p>(If there was a CC at the time I can imagine the postings about the jock who only got into excellent schools as a recruited athlete … with the posters oblivious to the fact my grades (in math and science) and test scores blew the doors off my school’s top 10 students)</p>
<p>i’ve spent significant time at all of the ivies except for princeton. i would definitely say that the student body at brown is the most laid back and down to earth.
since we all love rankings, i’d rank them in the following order (excluding princeton because i dont have personal experience)</p>
<p>Brown
Dartmouth
Yale
Cornell
Columbia
Penn
Harvard</p>
<p>sooo Penn isn’t so laid back or humble huh?</p>
<p>yeah I have never met a Penn student who was not humble–Penn CAS, that is. Wharton is another story.</p>