Schools with snob appeal

[Anonymous]

Old Money schools will be the ones established for the longest time in the northeast or midatlantic. In chronological order:

Harvard
William & Mary
St John's College
Yale
U Penn
U Delaware
Princeton

All others are parvenus

[Anonymous]

Vassar
Amherst

[Anonymous]

Obviously the ivies so beyond that … when one says, “colleges with snob appeal,” I think of either:

(1) colleges that the average person might not think of when listing top colleges, but are valued by intellectuals- like Johns Hopkins, CMU, CalTech (once upon a time, Chicago)

or

(2) colleges that aren’t tip top ranked or particularly intellectual but Big Law families are okay with their kids attending - like Emory, Wash U, Michigan, Tufts

[Anonymous]

U of R is always mentioned on here in relation to snobs.

[Anonymous]

10:49 again. oh yes many SLACs belong in my category #2

[Anonymous]

It’s going to be one tough SOB who dares to mention Duke.

[Anonymous]

Pomona!

[Anonymous]

Look, UVA has long been a major snob school in the DMV. I realizes that this annoys the hell out of the UVA haters on this board, but that doesn’t change the reality of the situation and in fact probably explains it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously the ivies so beyond that … when one says, “colleges with snob appeal,” I think of either:

(1) colleges that the average person might not think of when listing top colleges, but are valued by intellectuals- like Johns Hopkins, CMU, CalTech (once upon a time, Chicago)

or

(2) colleges that aren’t tip top ranked or particularly intellectual but Big Law families are okay with their kids attending - like Emory, Wash U, Michigan, Tufts

Agree with 1. There is a certain enviable confidence that comes with subjecting yourself to brutally difficult academics at a school very few people are even aware of. I’d add Williams & maybe Davidson.

#2…the Big Law reference is a bit random & unnecessary, but I get your point. These are schools which are respectable & will get the job done, without the try-too-hard unimaginative obviousness of the Ivies/Stanford/MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pomona!

Pomona is for students who want Williams, Amherst, or Bowdoin but can’t deal with snow or cold. Snobs aren’t afraid of weather.

[Anonymous]

Colby
Middlebury
Dartmouth

[Anonymous]

Completely wrong about Brown. Some of the smartest people I know have gone/now go to Brown. The people who can handle the open curriculum are drawn to Brown. Yes, there are some Hollywood offspring, who surprisingly do add to the campus community, but the vast majority of Brown students are very high stats and wildly impressive across disciplines. The reality is the open curriculum is more relevant today in 2023. Other top schools are de facto migrating toward having an open curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Completely wrong about Brown. Some of the smartest people I know have gone/now go to Brown. The people who can handle the open curriculum are drawn to Brown. Yes, there are some Hollywood offspring, who surprisingly do add to the campus community, but the vast majority of Brown students are very high stats and wildly impressive across disciplines. The reality is the open curriculum is more relevant today in 2023. Other top schools are de facto migrating toward having an open curriculum.

Other top schools such as ?? Genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Completely wrong about Brown. Some of the smartest people I know have gone/now go to Brown. The people who can handle the open curriculum are drawn to Brown. Yes, there are some Hollywood offspring, who surprisingly do add to the campus community, but the vast majority of Brown students are very high stats and wildly impressive across disciplines. The reality is the open curriculum is more relevant today in 2023. Other top schools are de facto migrating toward having an open curriculum.

I’m not convinced.

[Anonymous]

get a job