Schools with snob appeal

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Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine definitely snob in the West Coast.

No, Pepperdine does not have snob appeal in California. It has a 50% acceptance rate and super low yield.

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Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine definitely snob in the West Coast.

I agree with the others - it has zero snob appeal for Californians.

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UVA is the snobbiest state school:

1. It does next to nothing to support the state
2. Its graduate schools suck, especially at stem, which in turn contributes nothing to the state
3. It professional schools are elite, but that doesn’t help the state
4. It purposely keeps undergrad enrollment low to become more elite, thereby turning down more in state students

In short, Michigan sought to give “an uncommon education for the common man”. UVA said “ an uncommon education is only possible with the uncommon, elite, man.”

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Most of the Ivies plus Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, Middlebury, Georgetown

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Listing out ivies and Duke, MIT, Williams, and Stanford is boring.

I’m interested the random unconventional niche snob appeal places that appeal to various small cliquey demographics. A few that I have learned about over the years:

Sweet Briar
Hillsdale
University of Richmond
SMU
Howard/Spelman

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Anonymous wrote:I would not for a second put Brown on this list. I suspect the majority of Brown students are strongly attracted to the lack of required classes. That’s why it is so popular with Hollywood offspring who might not be actual Ivy material, but can get by with a bunch of easier classes. At a school with snob appeal, students wouldn’t be deterred by required classes, even if they included classical languages or ancient philosophy.

Another reject talking. Example

https://economics.brown.edu/academics/undergraduate/concentrations/combined/applied-math-econ-scb

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Anonymous wrote:University of Florida

+1 In the South old money families go to their flagship.

No. Just no.

Yes. Just yes.
I'm southern, are you?

I've seen a fair number that defer to places like sewanee, Davidson, college of Charleston, but why wouldn't you go to your flagship and pledge the same Greek house as your successful parents? Your currency isn't worth very much at a place like Colgate or (if you can get in) an Ivy.

not worth it for the parents either. good old boys and junior league moms want to send their kids to a school their friends know and where their friends' kids also go.

I live in the South and UVA and W&M are very popular with the confederate crowd. I bet they are a little bit inbred too

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Anonymous wrote:University of Florida

+1 In the South old money families go to their flagship.

No. Just no.

Yes. Just yes.
I'm southern, are you?

I've seen a fair number that defer to places like sewanee, Davidson, college of Charleston, but why wouldn't you go to your flagship and pledge the same Greek house as your successful parents? Your currency isn't worth very much at a place like Colgate or (if you can get in) an Ivy.

not worth it for the parents either. good old boys and junior league moms want to send their kids to a school their friends know and where their friends' kids also go.

I live in the South and UVA and W&M are very popular with the confederate crowd. I bet they are a little bit inbred too

I live in the South. Sewanee, Furman, Wofford, and Washington and Lee have retained their snob appeal for the old money crowd as the state flagships start looking more like the “New South” socially and culturally.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA is the snobbiest state school:

1. It does next to nothing to support the state
2. Its graduate schools suck, especially at stem, which in turn contributes nothing to the state
3. It professional schools are elite, but that doesn’t help the state
4. It purposely keeps undergrad enrollment low to become more elite, thereby turning down more in state students

In short, Michigan sought to give “an uncommon education for the common man”. UVA said “ an uncommon education is only possible with the uncommon, elite, man.”

I agreee. UVA has a lot of very rich folks children who attend. Primarily legacy and Wall Street type folks children. From in state it tends to be more balanced. All our friends children who went to uva were more grounded before they attended uva once they came out of there they had a big chip on their shoulders. Maybe it’s the air in c ville

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Juilliard and RISD

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Anonymous wrote:Juilliard and RISD

Good ones.

I’ll add SCAD to the list.