Without the additions from emotional intelligence, the colleges have managed to create communities in the past. For example the random placement of students into colleges, instantly plays on the phenomena of how people tend to conform to in group and out group mentalities as seen in the Robbers Cave Experiment (Sherif 1961). Once indoctrinated under one banner of a specific group, even if the group was constructed by random, people tend to grow allegiances to these groups. Exemplified in the residential college system, most students begin to feel connected to and prideful of their college, as soon as college placements are announced. That is why anyone will hear that “my college is the best residential college” come from a lot of the students
