And this was the honors dorm, with the intelligent people. There was true weirdness there. And then we had the aspies, too.
BTDT... nothing like having friends with florid manic-depressive episodes who can't or won't seek help since it may prevent them from keeping scholarships... My experience is that honors dorms are a huge warning flag. If the overall campus atmosphere is so anti-intellectual that they have to segregate the smart kids to provide a peer group then it isn't really a great place for gifted kids no matter how much money they are throwing at the problem. At my school the drop out/underachievement rate was an order of magnitude higher among the most elite scholarship recipients.
