Preppiest colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should hope and pray she outgrows it.

HA! I was thinking the same thing. I have a DS who is looking for schools with no Greek scene, so these suggestions are great for us to avoid! But good luck to the OP!

Me too! Want to avoid schools that are ruled by the Greek scene. My dc is "preppy" but does not want a school that revolves around Greek life.

[Anonymous]

There is a difference between northeast preppy and southern preppy. If you want Ole South preppy go to Washington & Lee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should hope and pray she outgrows it.

HA! I was thinking the same thing. I have a DS who is looking for schools with no Greek scene, so these suggestions are great for us to avoid! But good luck to the OP!

Me too! Want to avoid schools that are ruled by the Greek scene. My dc is "preppy" but does not want a school that revolves around Greek life.

Yes, this is one of my fears! I worry my kid will want to go to a super-preppy, Greek infested, un-diverse school and I'll have to pretend I like it.

A first world problem, I know.

[Anonymous]

For the PP looking for reasonably preppy but no Greek scene , Middlebury. There are no frats/sororities. There are 'social houses" but these are coed, less than 10% of students, and don't function like frats/sororities except for throwing some parties.

[Anonymous]

I would say most of the NESCACS'- Bates, Middlebury, Trinity, Connecticut College, Amherst are all super preppy and good schools. For Ivy I think Princeton is considered to be the preppiest with Yale right behind it. Harvard the least.

UVA for top state school and UNC Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should hope and pray she outgrows it.

HA! I was thinking the same thing. I have a DS who is looking for schools with no Greek scene, so these suggestions are great for us to avoid! But good luck to the OP!

Me too! Want to avoid schools that are ruled by the Greek scene. My dc is "preppy" but does not want a school that revolves around Greek life.

Yes, this is one of my fears! I worry my kid will want to go to a super-preppy, Greek infested, un-diverse school and I'll have to pretend I like it.

A first world problem, I know.

Does UMiami give you the chills?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I knew what this meant back in the 80s. What does "true prep" mean now?

Even back in the '80s, there were many different varieties of preppy (e.g., southern PYG, Catholic PYG, New England cord, crunchy granola, etc.). Not all these were characterized as xenophobic and small-minded, though some of the comments on this thread confirm that the most provincial preppy types -- like a particularly noxious viral strain -- survive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would say most of the NESCACS'- Bates, Middlebury, Trinity, Connecticut College, Amherst are all super preppy and good schools. For Ivy I think Princeton is considered to be the preppiest with Yale right behind it. Harvard the least.

UVA for top state school and UNC Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt.

Ivy Prep Ranking:

Dartmouth - in the woods, with snow, just like Deerfield and Exeter!
Yale - in CT, so St. Paul's, St. George's, St. Albans, etc.
Princeton - Southern preps, plus Lawrenceville, Pingry, etc.
Brown - most NYC preps of all, though their ethnicity and willingness to take mass transit drags them down
Harvard - too many social misfits
Columbia - still too close to Harlem
Penn - preps don't show up in force there until Wharton Business School
Cornell - no school with Hotel Administration is prep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say most of the NESCACS'- Bates, Middlebury, Trinity, Connecticut College, Amherst are all super preppy and good schools. For Ivy I think Princeton is considered to be the preppiest with Yale right behind it. Harvard the least.

UVA for top state school and UNC Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt.

Ivy Prep Ranking:

Dartmouth - in the woods, with snow, just like Deerfield and Exeter!
Yale - in CT, so St. Paul's, St. George's, St. Albans, etc.
Princeton - Southern preps, plus Lawrenceville, Pingry, etc.
Brown - most NYC preps of all, though their ethnicity and willingness to take mass transit drags them down
Harvard - too many social misfits
Columbia - still too close to Harlem
Penn - preps don't show up in force there until Wharton Business School
Cornell - no school with Hotel Administration is prep

The only school above that is remotley preppy is Dartmouth and then there is ultra preppy Princeton. Agree all NESCACS tend to be very preppy too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would say most of the NESCACS'- Bates, Middlebury, Trinity, Connecticut College, Amherst are all super preppy and good schools. For Ivy I think Princeton is considered to be the preppiest with Yale right behind it. Harvard the least.

UVA for top state school and UNC Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt.

Ivy Prep Ranking:

Dartmouth - in the woods, with snow, just like Deerfield and Exeter!
Yale - in CT, so St. Paul's, St. George's, St. Albans, etc.
Princeton - Southern preps, plus Lawrenceville, Pingry, etc.
Brown - most NYC preps of all, though their ethnicity and willingness to take mass transit drags them down
Harvard - too many social misfits
Columbia - still too close to Harlem
Penn - preps don't show up in force there until Wharton Business School
Cornell - no school with Hotel Administration is prep

Watch Conan O'Brien's Dartmouth commencement address a couple of years ago and his description of the Ivy League. Hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Trinity is very preppy. So is Miami of Ohio, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt..UVA and several Ivy "wannabees".
My kid just graduated from Princeton. It was less preppy than her private school here in DC. Also, it doesn't have a big Greek system...in fact, the university doesn't authorize the Greek system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Princeton and Dartmouth in the Ivies - the rest are actually not that preppy, more nerdy/urban.

Most of the NESCAC schools are preppy but lack the greek scene.

Schools like Wake Forest, UNC Chapel Hill, Davidson, UVA are worth a look.

Not true. Greek life is huge at e.g. Bowdoin and Trinity.

Don't know about Amherst - but Williams has no Greek scene (go Williams).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth is much, much preppier than Princeton. Trains, competition with Harvard and Yale for the brightest students and an engineering school mean Princeton's preppy past has been overtaken by striving public school types from NY, NJ, PA, MD and VA.

If you want real prep, forget the Ivies. You want SLACs like Williams, Trinity, Babson, Connecticut, Kenyon, Lake Forest, Wellesley, Haverford, and W&L - mostly hard to get into, but not quite as likely to excite the relatives back in Korea and therefore still mostly WASPy.

+1 but not so sure Babson should be on that list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, Boston College, Alabama, UVA, Princeton, Wake Forest

Um, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Wesleyan grads I know are pretty much the opposite of preppy.

Yes. This.