Douchiest US College Poll

no stanford, no cred

I should have added Stanford, you're right. Probably UC Berkeley, too, to be fair.

ha, friend just got a teaching job at Trinity. what a douche.

this works backwards: I wind up reading it in an effort to triangulate their working definition of "douche" rather than to learn which colleges fit mine

goin with Yale

Probably UC Berkeley, too, to be fair.

berkeley is too big and socially fragmented to be consistently douchey. I don't think there's a 'berkeley' type, but there are some subgroups that are super douchey.

xp nabisco: it seemed like the list was partly obvious douche stereotypes: Bob Jones (which I omitted), Duke, U of Chicago, USC ... definitely shows a greater focus on the East Coast than the rest of the country. It would be pretty easy to make a case for UC Santa Cruz and Stanford, for example.

iatee: but U of Texas is pretty huge as well.

of course that's more or less true for all of these colleges - but for some of them the douchey subgroup is a plurality/majority?

I agree about UT and because of that I don't think it should be included tbh.

It would be pretty easy to make a case for UC Santa Cruz

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them's fightin words

haha i was :D my schools not on the list then ppl started posting :(

usc is my first instinct tbh but i mean i dont really no what this means

many of the douchiest people i've ever encountered went to notre dame so i pick notre dame

yeah see UChicago is the one that requires me to stretch my personal idea of "douche" in a whole new direction -- not because I don't see what they're mocking about the type, but just because I always thought of it as outside my personal connotations of douchery

ucsc kids are (stereotypically) harmless middle class stoners. stanford and usc get the douche factor from the $$$$.

iatee: Well U of Texas has what, tens of thousands of students; Vassar, Amherst, Brown, and probably a good number of others are well under 10k.

Shakey: half of my best friends in high school went to UC Santa Cruz. The thing is, there are some pretty common stereotypes about the place that would lend it to be included on the douche list.

like the mockable UChicago type strikes me as too neurotic for this particular word, somehow

I think they're tarring U Chicago by association with asshole economists.

yes, I read the blurb

Bought this issue at the airport yesterday and was glad to see Reed get at least a passing mention but I am biased against that school on account of sharing a neighborhood w/it i guess.

nabisco, to me it looks like they wanted to come up with an example of every college stereotype to label douchey in its own way for the greatest variety, rather than working from an actual idea of douchiness. (not sure how to spell douchey. that's probably because it's not a real word, right?)

i picked yale because my roommate's boyfriend goes there and the conversations my roommate repeats sound very, very pretentious. not a good reason, but does there have to be one?

iatee: Well U of Texas has what, tens of thousands of students; Vassar, Amherst, Brown, and probably a good number of others are well under 10k.

I guess an important question is whether we're talking about total quantity of douches or % of school that is a douche

hah ... I almost went to Reed.

ohio state has over 50k iirc which makes for a lot of douches

re Reed: But one of the reasons I decided against it (besides financial reasons) was the feeling that Oregon has a special loathing for Californians that move there.

ha, well, i am def ex-cali

Oregon ID now tho

only people who don't live in cali say cali

unless they're talking about that one song.

i didn't go to a school on the list, but my school's stereotype was hit pretty spot-on.

fwiw ive always really liked everyone ive met that went to duke and yale solid bros the trinity and brown blurbs seemed the most accurate in terms off ppl i have known also i dont know anyone that went to most of these schools tbh

trinity seemed pretty accurate from my experience. I don't think I know any "limousine liberals" from Brown ... most of the folks I was friends with or lived with are adjunct professors or have computer jobs. The only friend that might be wealthy is definitely not a liberal.

Voting Colorado for the crunchy trusties. Fuck that shit.

I'm currently leaning towards Vassar ...

I've had just about enough of your Vassar-bashing, sarahel.

i have met some super-rad ppl from vassar but i have also met some humongous douchebuckets from there too, so i'm leaning towards them

If douchebag status can only be attained by heterosexual males (as would seem to be the case), there really aren't that many possible douches at Vassar to begin with.

but yeah i don't actually know anyone at most of these schools

okay, I shouldn't pick Vassar just because I know one douchey person that went there. This douchey person is female.

i'm defining it as "ppl i've met and don't like", regardless of gender

^^ me too, obviously.

Where's Oberlin?

Torn between voting for my alma mater (Colorado) and my home state's flagship (OSU).

xp kate: isn't it in the same state as the notorious Antioch College?

my cousin's starting at vassar this year (just moved into his dorm). when i asked what the male-female ratio is like these days, he just grinned.

I don't think I know any "limousine liberals" from Brown ... most of the folks I was friends with or lived with are adjunct professors or have computer jobs. The only friend that might be wealthy is definitely not a liberal.

is that what they do or what their parents do? i meant the "in ten years" + the zing abt hegemony the only person that went to brown that i know well always wanted to be a farmer and quit her job to open a pet grooming business. she was totally rad but def fit the vague stereotype in that blurb.

I graduated 13 years ago.

the interesting thing about a large enough school (like Colorado) is that you can get a situation where like a majority of its own students totally acknowledge and chafe at the douchiness of some central douchey core.

I voted NYU, because I wish I'd have gone there and I'm a douche.

I think the "best" answer is gonna have to be a smaller school.

if you can walk with douches and never lose the common touch ...

sarahel - that was an American Psycho quote

i missed an American Psycho quote?

voted duke. I went to UNC for grad school, so I had no choice.

though I lived near New Haven for many years, and there are plenty of douchey yalies

I got kicked out of a yale party with some UNC grads ... the yalie douches did not appreciate my UNC friend's powder blue tux.

i'm sure the douches of penn state feel slighted, but we can comfort ourselves with being the #1 party school in america for the first time EVURRR

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

notre dame a surprise top 3

are any ilxors Duke alumni?

hopefullly not

btw, I think I do some of the California vowel shift things, and some of them I definitely don't do.

aww, i tied with that little school in connecticut.

0 votes for me! How comforting ...

i remember visiting suny binghamton in hs. there should be something on this list representing the special breed of long island douches who go to school there

binghamton was my undergrad. i do remember a lot of long island douches, but really suny stonybrook was ground zero for the long island douche. binghamton was pretty geographically/ethnically mixed, and a pretty geeky school overall (ithaca is nearby so we got the cornell runoff).

I will always remember Binghampton for being the school that produced Tony Kornheiser

I will also always remember Binghamton for not actually being spelled with a 'p'

it was named for someone named bingham. it's not in any of the hamptons.

ha I didn't even realize that the Hamptons are in Long Island

Princeton all the way. everyone i've ever known there has been a self-assured, self-righteous piece of shit. always intelligent, but book-smart, not street- or people-smart.

new rankings are out

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/humor/201108/douchiest-colleges-america-2011

bennington and MIT otm

the picture of the bennington guy confirms everything i think abt. that school

this list seems more accurate than the other one, despite the lack of dartmouth and usc

holy lol

dartmouth had some douches to be sure, but i didn't really know that many

and while there's little-to-no difference b/w douchebags from long island and douchebags from north jersey (the waiting sections for both the LIRR and Jersey Transit during the wee hours of the morning on weekends are no-go zones if you don't want to be surrounded by them), i should also note that long island is the place that new jerseyans love to make fun of.

― Mein bester Freund, die Kackwurst, wird bis zu einem Meter groß. (Eisbaer), Monday, September 7, 2009 8:54 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

lol me before "jersey shore" hit the airwaves.

Didn't they use that exact Mormon photo for the 'worst dressed cities' SLC entry barely a week ago? Lazy.

also ... WHERE RUTGERS AT? how can the State University of Guido Central NOT be in a top-10 douchiest college list?!?

(nb: i'm a Rutgers alum)

trick question: all colleges are douchey

that said, U Delaware has ALWAYS been the repository of NJers too douchey even for the Garden State.

i went to USC and it was pretty damn douchy at times, but given its size and lack of uniform doughiness i guess i see the rationale behind its non-inclusion

Never been prouder of my alma mater.

me either

i didn't know cornell was douchey

cornell people the least douchey ivy-leagues I've met other than maybe columbia people

leaguers

I think they're just happy to be in the club

i think their alleged douchiness lies in not being taken seriously by other Ivies or the world-at-large.

my Ivy douche vote would've been U. Penn, mainly b/c of Wharton and the army of douchebags it spits out into the world each year.

nobody gonna argue w/ penn

also, let's face it if Cornell weren't Ivy it would just be another Colgate or Hamilton (both of which also had kinda douchey reputations when i was still in college). i.e., just another overpriced undergrad school in the middle of upstate NY.

i went to the cornell safety school/nearby public university for kids who couldn't afford cornell. i've only ever met one cornell grad i'd consider a douche; they're mostly pretty chill.

most of the known graduates of my school are undoubtedly douches, sadly

I went to undergrad long enough ago that I have no idea how accurate its douche rating actually is. Also I was really drunk so.

cornell really ain't that bad, princeton always had the worst ivy-ites ime

otm

us douche and world report:

1. penn
2. princeton
3. dartmouth
4. harvard
5. yale
6. brown
7. columbia
8. cornell

yalies were way douchier than harvardians!

yalies' false humility ups the douchery

harvard being in a 2nd tier of douche just seems inexplicable