College with most polished students

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Anonymous wrote:SEC kids are polished. They are not socially awkward, are attractive and look you in the eye. They have a confidence that many students from highly rated schools lack.

Southerners are polished, attractive and look you in the eye and are confident? What? Some of you people are living like it’s a different era. If you want to generalize and stereotype I can do that. Southerners are racists. The big flagship state universities that accept pretty much anybody are still segregated, especially the top sororities who think they rule. They dress in pink as if it’s still the 1980s and Lilly Pulitzer is still a thing.

Worst, southern colleges have more MAGA students that Northern colleges. That’s about as unpolished as you can be.

This whole polished thing is seriously unhinged. They are students mostly age 18 to 23.

I bet you're loads of fun at parties.....

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Anonymous wrote:Polished just means rich and polite to me. No one ever describes a poor person as polished.

Where do you go to college so we can be sure not to go there or send our children?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering, what college do you think has the students that are the most cultured, well spoken, and overall intelligent. The kind of kids who have impeccable manners and know how to act in exclusive spaces.

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If polished means, showering, haircuts, and clothes that don’t look liked they slept in them, definitely not any ivy’s then.

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Anonymous wrote:If polished means, showering, haircuts, and clothes that don’t look liked they slept in them, definitely not any ivy’s then.

The only things they polish at Columbia are their bullhorns.

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I think schools with a strong preprofessional vibe may attract more polished kids. Kids inclined toward networking, comfort interviewing, strong social skills, etc. Just my observation from my own kids and their friends.

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"Polished" is white liberal elitist speak for "rich snobs like us"

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Anonymous wrote:If polished means, showering, haircuts, and clothes that don’t look liked they slept in them, definitely not any ivy’s then.

The only things they polish at Columbia are their bullhorns.

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Anonymous wrote:Mount Holyoke, Smith, Wellesley, Vassar, Princeton.

Two of the most nightmare, narcissist women I've ever encountered professionally were Smith alumnae. Anecdotal obviously, but any polish was completely a function of self-importance.

askharvardstudents IG account interviews a good range of current students if you want to judge the level of polish there.

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Anonymous wrote:If polished means, showering, haircuts, and clothes that don’t look liked they slept in them, definitely not any ivy’s then.

Polished apparently means rich snobs and there's plenty of those at the ivy's. And also plenty of not
rich snobs knobs as well.

Google "least affordable colleges and universities" if you want to find the most rich snobs I would think.

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Service academies: Yes, they do the uniform thing and Sir/Ma'am - but that's more robotic compliance than real polish.

Oxbridge: May be the *source* of our ideas of polished, but they're now too provincial and insular to be real models in American dominated global society.

Harvard: You get some polish at Harvard (I went there and did not find the friction of the polishing process very pleasant, although it somewhat worked) but it's too heterogeneous and intellectual to really be at the top of the polish game. I would guess Yale is the same.

Princeton: Good bet, even with the engineering.

Everyone is sleeping on Brown and Duke.

Additionally, there's the NESCAC (except swagless Tufts).

NYU is a weird one. It's too big and heterogeneous to be polishing in the finishing school sense, but it does get kids used to working, living, and playing in the heart of Manhattan, which is important for many jobs.

Lastly, like it or not, Greek life is a source of polish at many schools, including but not limited to the SEC schools.

But the real question is "polish for what/where?" Polish is not fully universal, but substantially depends on context. Someone polished as a NY finance bro might find himself in the brig in the military, and a polished academic might be hopeless in the business world. It depends on the kid's goals.