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private schools with reputations for nerdiness and difficulty Which schools are those? As a homeschooling parent, who emphasizes to my children that they shoul
by tokenadult 11y ago
private schools with reputations for nerdiness and difficulty
Which schools are those? As a homeschooling parent, who emphasizes to my children that they should THINK, I would definitely encourage my children to apply to schools (public or private) that are genuinely nerdy and difficult. I'd be delighted to hear suggestions of good colleges and universities like that.
- pbh101 11y agoHarvey Mudd, CalTech, Rose Hulman, Carnegie Mellon, from what I've heard and experienced. But I expect you have heard of these institutions, and they are all on the technical side.
- superuser2 11y agoMIT, UChicago, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, WashU, Middlebury, Berkeley, etc. Students who are primarily interested in prestige have better options. What's left at schools like these are the masochists who actually want to be challenged academically and surrounded by peers at or above their intellectual level. I'd say Chicago is the paradigm case, but I'm biased :). One of its best features is an extraordinarily large and rigorous general ed requirement ("the Core") which means even a computer science student gets a substantial liberal arts education. There are paths through the Core with a higher tolerance for bullshit, but they're frowned upon. I took the more philosophy-leaning sequences and loved them. Lots of emphasis on close reading, lucid discussion, critical analysis, and clear argumentative writing. It has also been my experience that students merely looking to check the "college" box with minimal effort are not mainstream and don't tend to succeed.