Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No place with less than 10% acceptance rate is going to have people focused on maintaining their looks. A lot of attractiveness comes from fitness, dressing, make up, grooming, fake lashes, hair extensions, manicure/pedicure, skincare, relaxed attitude, all of which require free time. Intellectual pursuits and humanitarian concerns shift a person’s focus from self to others.
Over the last 20 years or so, there’s been a shift from NESCAC & Ivies being schools for preppy kids straight out of the Preppy Handbook to now. They’re now filled with kids who instead have purple hair, piercings, Birkenstock’s, crop tops, bangs, and tattoos.