<p>In the hope of helping people find schools that are similar to ones they especially like, everyone please group various schools that are similar.</p>
<p>e.g. I have heard that Amherst, Grinnell and Swarthmore are supposedly similar</p>
<p>(my requests are for schools that are similar to: brown, cmu, rice, stanford, tufts, UofRochester, Yale)</p>
<p>Brown: Dartmouth and Reed (openness of curriculum and studies)</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon: General opinion wise/Hardcore programwise: some kinda weird Caltech/Cornell/MIT thing with engineering/CS
Softcore Programwise: Probably NYU as both business schools are tied at 5th. Also, both of the art programs are right after Juilliard as the best. If I had to make an unofficial ranking I’d put Juilliard as 1 and then switch Tisch/CMU around as 2nd/3rd or tied at 2nd. Of course CMU is mostly known for its engineering/tech/sciences so I offered both science/techy and more soft-skilled comparisons.</p>
<p>Rice: Probably some kinda weird Caltech/Liberal Arts cross. </p>
<p>Stanford: A very relaxed MIT with more softcore skills.</p>
<p>Tufts: GWU/WUSTL cross with IR being amazing and known to behave like a WUSTL :)</p>
<p>URochester: RIT and RPI</p>
<p>Yale: Princeton</p>
<p>yay, quick reply, that’s awesome!
anyone else?</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, Penn (party and social scene, all top 10)</p>
<p>CMU, Case Western Reserve</p>
<p>Reed, unlike Brown, has a very intense core. They seem to attract the same types of people though.</p>
<p>I think Rice is like a Pomona/Harvey Mudd hybrid.</p>
<p>Brown:
amherst, swarthmore, wesleyan, oberlin, vassar, conn college, grinnell, bard, skidmore</p>
<p>From all the people I’ve met from Amherst, I don’t think it fits with having a similar bent to Brown, but would agree with all of huskem’s other picks. </p>
<p>Dartmouth doesn’t really have the same atmosphere of Brown or Stanford and is more in the mold of Williams, Colgate, Middlebury, Bucknell and Washington & Lee.</p>
<p>Dartmouth like Washington and Lee? NO WAY. Dartmouth is much more like Stanford or Brown in terms of student body than W&L or Bucknell. Dartmouth is about 1/3 minority and 80% liberal. W&L is 5% minority and conservative while Bucknell is 15% minority tops and tilts conservative.</p>
<p>Not to mention its a much better school than those two.</p>
<p>I meant more in style and atmosphere than actual academic quality. Dartmouth, Williams, Colgate, Middlebury, Bucknell, W&L all are medium to small, very rural, LAC feel, somewhat jockish, big party (maybe not so much Williams) type of schools. Brown is a much better school than Bard or Skidmore, but see where huskem was going with his comparison.</p>
<p>I guess I just cringe at the thought of Dartmouth and W&L being lumped together. the big difference being student body. Dartmouth is open minded and diverse, much like Brown, while W&L is not.</p>
<p>Notre Dame, Holy Cross, Georgetown.</p>
<p>Well, maybe in philosophy W&L isn’t that comparable to Dartmouth since W&L is 87% white (is any good school in the country higher?) and is so conservative (Dartmouth’s conservative historical reputation, notwithstanding). I was just pointing out the many attributes where they are similar. I still contend that Dartmouth is, at least, more similar to Williams, Colgate, Middlebury than it is to Brown or Stanford.</p>