Where Do the Hipsters Go?

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You may find this thread helpful:

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1658573-where-do-the-cool-kids-go-to-college-p6.html

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LOL!

@Dustyfeathers I’ll let you know if and when we tour Goucher. Lewis and Clark is more crunchy than out and out hippy I think. I am cracking up though as I swear we’ve looked at every single school on your first pass, and then some.

@STEM2017 True dat. Is Hipster simply a retro metro (for guys).

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@Dustyfeathers I agree with your list for the most part except for Middlebury. To me its preppy/jocky/outdoorsy with a dash of hippie.

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SCAD.

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The high stats hipsters are in the coolest cities for music, coding, spelunking et al: places like UW (Seattle), UT Austin

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Pratt Institute; Eugene Lang/New School; UArts (Philadelphia); any good film or media school in a major city (e.g. Emerson, Columbia College Chicago, USC, NYU, BU, Temple, UMiami (NOT Miami U); RISD; Ringling (Sarasota); CalArts; maybe even CUNY.

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Ringling is not hipster.

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CUNY is so diverse that it’s hard to classify. There are about 274,000 students spread over several campuses . . . on multiple islands (Staten, Manhattan, Brooklyn/Queens on Long Island) and the Bronx.

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well represented at VCUARTS

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Thanks to everyone who replied. It made me happy to see what everyone thinks. :slight_smile:

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Not Oberlin, alma mater of uber-hipster Lena Dunham?

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I wonder if a hipster would go to a really conservative religious school to avoid being mainstream.

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Oregon, bard

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I will add Bates to the nerdster category, with outdoorsy granola and a bit of prep thrown in.

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So, while we’re at it, what exactly are the fine distinctions between hippy, crunchy and granola? (or should I start a new thread?)

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Hippie (as opposed to those with big hips :wink: ), granola, and crunchy are all synonyms in my book. It is different, however, from hipster.

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Ah! got it, lol!

I thought maybe crunchy might be sort of like hippie-lite? Maybe less marijuana and more…well…organic? Opinions?

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We could write a book about this @inthegarden and @doschicos :slight_smile:

I don’t entirely agree that granola is the same as crunchy and hippie. I think granola means natural and outdoorsy.

And I also think there are subcategories in @Dustyfeathers fine list.
IMO, Goucher and Oberlin are more punky. Bard and Reed are more gothy. Brown is all things to all people, haha!

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There is what I refer to as preppy granola which is a subgroup of preppy or hippie. Prevalent in northern New England. Nothing in common with southern Prep at all.

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@VANURSEPRAC Texas hipsters go to UT Austin, not UNT … not if they can help it.