Quote: (05-06-2011 12:49 PM)Athlone McGinnis Wrote:
Quote: (05-06-2011 10:16 AM)gringochileno Wrote:
Wow, your school sounds horrible. It might not be a shared problem at all ivy league schools though. I know some guys at Harvard and Cornell who do fine, and I have a female friend at Brown who says the hookup culture there is alive and well. Another friend visited Dartmouth and said it seemed like a fuckfest. I might be wrong but it's possible you just picked the wrong top-tier school.
Brown is probably the best in the league as far as having a normal, healthy dating scene. They have the best gender ratio(for guys) in the league, something like 53 F-47 M, and the girls are certainly more liberal and DTF.
Yale has surprisingly decent quality-they must be getting a slice of that wealthy, Connecticut elite from super-rich towns in Fairfield County. Princeton's quality is above the bottom tier, but their ratio is among the worst in the league for guys(reverse Brown's ratio). Columbia is tough(also a bad ratio and girl quality is bottom tier in the league) but you have Bard and the rest of NYC to ogle as a guy there to make up for it. Penn has bottom tier girls, but you are in Philly with other options to make up the difference.
Harvard has a horrible scene. The girls are bottom tier and the guys are consistently less satisfied with the quality there than the girls are with the guys.
Dartmouth and Cornell are at the bottom of the league as far as the dating scene (quality of girls, ratio, etc) goes for guys. As far as the quality of these two schools go, they're not exceedingly worse than Harvard. What creates the difference, however, is the isolation. I know guys at all three of these schools and some do ok, but the median results are not good.
The Harvardians are fortunate to live in Boston, and can branch out a bit. BU and BC(to cite just two examples) have plenty of quality on offer and a lot of those girls are very open to dating Harvard guys(especially the athletes). Guys at the other two schools are in a more difficult conundrum, which is why I'd put them at the bottom of the league.
A guy I know who goes to Harvard says it's pretty easy to get laid there but the quality won't blow you away. It may just be him too, I've seen him in action and he has tight game.
Dartmouth is near the bottom? Granted I don't know anyone who actually goes there, but all reports I've heard from people who visited there and went to parties are that people were hooking up left and right.
What's really interesting is that being a football player doesn't give you automatic alpha status where you're at. I went to a non-Ivy but still top-tier school for undergrad and football player was about the highest status you could have, although we are a D1 school in a major conference so maybe that's the difference.