College with most polished students

[Anonymous]

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.