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15 Colleges Where Geek Is Chic

First Posted: 02/21/2012 11:45 am   Updated: 02/21/2012 11:45 am

Not every college is tailored toward the student who grew up wearing sweater vests and obsessing over their new TI-83 calculator.

However, there are some schools, both public and private, where a geek would fit in well.

Here are 15 chosen by Inside College's experts, in alphabetical order below. What do you think? Which ones did they miss?

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02:34 AM on 02/24/2012
You missed a big geek school that is geekier than several of the mild examples you gave. That school is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (The 'Tute) in Troy, NY. Most of the others on your list are just amateurs.
09:44 AM on 02/23/2012
you forgot about Carleton! Haven't experience both Carleton and CWRU, Carleton belongs much more than CWRU.
09:46 AM on 02/23/2012
*having experienced
01:54 PM on 06/27/2012
ha you didnt go to CWRU.. it definitely belongs in that list.
09:47 PM on 02/22/2012
Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean's Fellowship betches!!!
07:11 PM on 02/23/2012
Jeeeez... it hasn't been Carnegie Tech since.... um.... lessee.... well.... ahhh.... a long, long time!

Was Dick Cyert the university president then? Nah, musta been Stever... Cyert was still teaching then.
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12:58 AM on 02/24/2012
Carnegie Tech still exists, only it's now just the engineering school within CMU.
09:02 PM on 02/22/2012
Considering the fact that Rose Hulman's mascot is the Fightin' Engineer, I dare say they deserve their spot on this list.
03:57 PM on 02/22/2012
Need to add Michigan Technological University to this list.
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JoshInPgh
Pro-Jewish, no matter the censors.
12:59 AM on 02/24/2012
Hockey schools need not apply. Virginia Tech would be on the list before Michigan Tech.
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10:23 AM on 02/22/2012
Every time I hear Swarthmore, I think of that song by the Mamas and the Papas.
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JScott
John Galt's last name is McGuffin-Smithee
10:17 AM on 02/22/2012
Cal Tech-Drs. Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstater's workplace.
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Knightro829
Viva la Cleptocracia!!
09:53 AM on 02/22/2012
In hindsight, I really wish I had taken a closer look at Rice. Everyone I've met who attended seems very smart, very well-educated, and very down to Earth. Must be a fun place to get a top-quality education.
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09:18 AM on 02/22/2012
UCSD also has Blacks Beach - clothing optional - right at the edge of the campus.
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10:23 AM on 02/22/2012
lol yep, that is quite a hike to the bottom.
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12:51 AM on 02/23/2012
Then do what the conservative Christians do and stand on the end of the glider runway with high-power binoculars and comment about the "immoral" nude people on the beach.

Actually there is a nice road with a fairly easy slope down to the beach from the edge of the campus.
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09:15 AM on 02/22/2012
UCSD started out as a graduate level only university (Scripps), then later added science and engineering upper classes and only after quite a few years finally added freshmen and sophomores. It wasn't until the lower division was added that they needed humanities (the standard general education classes) . When they added the medical school the humanities folks were really, really out numbered by the engineers, scientist and doctors. It is a great school with very rigorous academics.
01:16 PM on 02/22/2012
lol UCSD and good school in the same sentence? Not even in the top 30 =/
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12:47 AM on 02/23/2012
Actually UCSD is in the top ten of most science and engineering school lists, both US and world-wide
08:45 PM on 06/12/2012
for US News and World top national universities list, it was #37. If you don't think thats good, then something is wrong with you.
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08:53 AM on 02/22/2012
My son applied to Worcester. Don't know if he would like to hear it's one of the geekiest.
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13champlain
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08:45 AM on 02/22/2012
Good to see Rice and RIT on there....great schools. RIT has a good hockey program
08:43 AM on 02/22/2012
I went to RIT. 100% accurate. Still a great school with tons of diversity
08:40 AM on 02/22/2012
Let's be honest here. It wasn't a TI-83. It was a TI-89.
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08:34 AM on 02/22/2012
Johns Hopkins, Reed, Swarthmore, and UCSD over RPI, Renssalear Polytechnic Institute? Kinda like PolitiFact, if you can't get them right, don't do them...