Education Listmania

September is here! Well, sort of. Though the month schools open their doors to students has begun, it's still the week before Labor Day, which most people in the working world call "summer's last hoorah," a/k/a when everyone is on vacation.

At Vault, however, we're gearing up to release a number of new education guides for the admissions season, including the Law School Buzz Book, Business School Buzz Book, Vault Guide to Top Internships, Vault/CGSM Guide to Business School Diversity and more. Which means we're all here, and much too busy to go on holiday--or think of original blog posts. Luckily for the education team, there have been lots of lists and rankings released in the wake of the U.S. News America's Best Colleges list for us to write about.

One such list is by GQ, called "America's 25 Douchiest Colleges." The ranking is a joke, written to poke fun of top schools and their stereotypes. Still, it can be valuable to know what the reputations are for different schools and their students. Though you shouldn't let stereotypes determine where you decide to matriculate, they can give you a sense for the prominent personality on campus. Plus if you, like me, are an alumna of one of the top 25, you can laugh at how dead-on GQ's highlights are, or aren't.

GQ: America's 25 Douchiest Colleges

1. Brown University
   

   Affectations: A belief that grades, majors, and course requirements are just another form of cultural hegemony; using the word hegemony.

2. Duke University

   Affectations: Pressed oxford; Goldman Sachs summer-internship tote; always ending the party by taking your shirt off and wrestling a guy named Schmitty.

3. Princeton University

   A peek inside: Most Ivy Leaguers try (unconvincingly) not to mention which college they went to. Not at Princeton.

4. Harvard University
5. Deep Springs College
6. Bob Jones University
7. Amherst College

   Affectations: Quiet sense of superiority; intense desire to be surrounded by 1,700 people almost exactly like you; Choate soccer jacket.

8. Rollins College
9. Charter College, Wasilla
10. University of Colorado-Boulder
11. New York University
12. University of Phoenix
13. University of Georgia

    Prized possession: White bulldog with notarized papers proving a bloodline to Uga IV.

14. Arizona State University
15. University of Notre Dame
16. University of Southern California
17. University of Chicago
18. Boston University
19. Ohio State University

    Overheard at Buckeye career-building workshop: "You can put 'Won a national championship' on a resume, right?"

20. Morehouse College
21. Trinity College
22. Vassar College
23. Randolph-Macon College
24. University of Texas at Austin
25. University of Virginia

    Overheard in the bleachers: "Well, at least our football players actually go to class and--hey, Dylan, this mint julep is outstanding."