<p>I have many friends who go to Ivy schools, some at Yale, others at Brown, Dartmouth and Penn and they all have their share of experiences such as how competitive everyone at the schools are. I was wondering which Ivy you feel is the humblest of them all (Least competitive)?</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know where to post this because there isn’t an all-encompassing Ivy section.</p>
<p>Two things - Humble and least competitive are different things.</p>
<p>I would say that Yale and/or Brown are the most humble. I know of many Yalies who simply say they went to school in Connecticut, and only say Yale when asked. And same for Brown - it just seems that the two schools dont feel the need to tell everyone where they went.</p>
<p>Least competitive? No idea. And even with that, all the Ivies have a high level of competition.</p>
<p>What I meant by competition is the atmosphere. I know in some courses (such as mathematics courses at Yale) students wouldn’t share notes with some who miss class one day to get an edge and whatnot. I know that the relative competition is at a high level at all Ivies, but I was hoping for more of an answer in that sense.</p>
<p>Harvard. We are hailed as the best around the world, but we have nothing to prove. We plod along on the roads we have chosen and try to improve what we do. Nothing hoo-rah besides the Harvard-Yale football. Humble Harvard that’s us ;)</p>
<p>Ah Crimson, I’m applying to Harvard and was wondering how do you like fact that you’re close to MIT? Do you make lots of friends from there? Are you able to cross-register and take courses there? I’m really interested in the general relationships the students between these two universities share.</p>
<p>I really don’t care that I’m close to MIT to be honest. Even though MIT is just across town down Mass Ave, I really don’t make the trek often. No courses there have piqued my interest enough to get me to cross-register, but the process itself isn’t too difficult. As far as relationships go, I know there is some collaboration, but not much that affects me. I have friends that go there, but I could care less if it was MIT or a Community College there, just my opinion.</p>
<p>Oh alright, thanks :)</p>
<p>“I know in some courses (such as mathematics courses at Yale) students wouldn’t share notes with some who miss class one day to get an edge and whatnot.”
Is this actually true?</p>
<p>^^Not in my experience so far. I am only a first-semester freshman, but I would find that extremely hard to believe of the people I know here.</p>
<p>No, its not true. Not to my experience anyways</p>
<p>Students are always willing to share notes… and the ones who arent are stupid anyways</p>
<p>I’m a high school student, so this is only speculation, but I feel like there will be a small group of students at every school who refuse to share their notes. Doesn’t mean one person’s actions should become the label for an entire student body.</p>
<p>Interesting that Yale is considered fairly chilled - considering it is so highly ranked.</p>
<p>I would think that is all schools there will be some (fools) who will not be helpful; individualistic, screw the rest to get a better curve etc, but that is not helpful and most probably realise that. </p>
<p>I would guess that at all ivies (all universities) that at least 90% of people are just nice - humble.</p>
<p>(conjecture of course… I will tell you all about it when I am there :))</p>
<p>Yeah I have no idea what russiaruns’s friend was talking about; I’ve been at Yale for more than three years now and have never encountered competition like that even once. Yale is surprisingly laid-back and noncompetitive, actually – though I suppose it varies somewhat by major. At least within the humanities (which at Yale are very intense and work-heavy) there is essentially 0 competition.</p>
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<p>Harvard undergraduate here and I have yet to see anything like that 
. I ask people all the time to explain to me a homework problem, etc., and was asked to do the same for other people as well multiple times.</p>
<p>^^ I would assume that the sciences are by nature more competitive than the humanities, but I could be wrong entirely. At least at my high school, I have encountered the most competition in the science class (organic chemistry, where we had take-home tests that we could work together on AND a curve based on class scores, which encouraged someone I knew to try to take advantage of others).</p>
<p>I highly doubt your high school is anything like Harvard ;)</p>