Schools with snob appeal
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Anonymous
| Growing up in New England. The snobby schools (besides Ivies) were Amherst. Williams. Wellesley. Bowdoin. Duke. Vanderbilt. |
Anonymous
If you want some of the accoutrements of snobbism without paying a lot or having to study a lot, I’d take a look at Florida Atlantic U. Its location & appearance make it feel like they were building a country club & half-way through decided to build a university instead. |
Anonymous
If you look at the data, Vanderbilt has one of the highest percentages of kids with parental income in the 1%. It’s also a school that has a great divide between the % of kids with top income vs. Pell grant kids. As for student quality, it’s hard to objectively claim that Vandy students are mediocre. Your attitudes probably reflect the notion that it was a local school for you, thus not special. Almost all schools - even highly selective ones - admit more heavily from their metro and regional areas than other places. For example, a simple google search reveals that in 2015, 15% of Harvard students were from Massachusetts while the state represented only 2% of the nation’s population. |
Anonymous
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Williams
Amherst Middlebury Source: members of my snobby old money family went to these schools |
Anonymous
| SMU |
Anonymous
Not to mention, William & Mary. |
Anonymous
It's one of them. Super-wealthy Indians are the ones who can afford to have Larlo go into jewelry design, or write a fantasy trilogy about the evils of colonialism, or carelessly buck family traditions and open an art gallery or join a theater company, or start a theater company... Snob appeal isn't about the professional class, it's not the thousands of computer scientists whose parents were from Bangalore or Birmingham, or the premed or prelaw or finance majors... snob appeal has circled back to being a cultural hothouse, one that the plebs truly cannot understand. |
Anonymous
Woot. Washington College and Washington & Jefferson must be T25 then (Yes I know you were being sarcastic. I appreciate it. It was funny.) |
Anonymous
| Smith used to be a snob school. |
Anonymous
| Rollins and Sewanee |
Anonymous
That cracked me up! All those sweet nerdy public school tuition students at W&M are the furthest thing from snobs. |
Anonymous
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Lot of conflating snobbery based on wealthy with academic snobbery, with UNWR rankings/name recognition, with DMV UMC who are just snobs for the sake of cocktail party one upsmanship on here. Lots of different types of snobs.
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Anonymous
Really? |
Anonymous
+1. WM parent, and please keep us off your list. We are rel snobby towards snobby people. 
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Anonymous
There's one thing they all have in common and that's the belief that their position relies on someone else's being inferior. |