Schools with snob appeal

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Anonymous wrote: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.

There's one thing they all have in common and that's the belief that their position relies on someone else's being inferior.

True that.

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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.

Brown, Dartmouth, USC and NYU are favorite destinations of kids of super wealthy Indians.

Super wealthy Indians are not the same as old money, think WASPs. OP did not clearly describe “snob appeal.” It’s possible she just meant wealthy or smart, but I think of snob appeal as something appealing to WASPs.

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Anonymous wrote:Growing up in New England. The snobby schools (besides Ivies) were Amherst. Williams. Wellesley. Bowdoin. Duke. Vanderbilt.

Also from NE. Add Stanford and Julliard and I agree with this list.

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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.

Brown, Dartmouth, USC and NYU are favorite destinations of kids of super wealthy Indians.

Super wealthy Indians are not the same as old money, think WASPs. OP did not clearly describe “snob appeal.” It’s possible she just meant wealthy or smart, but I think of snob appeal as something appealing to WASPs.

The super-wealthy Indians I know all go to Ascot and own hunting clothes. I think you have to understand that WASP culture hasn't been dominated by actual Wasps for quite some time. Also, a lot of super-wealthly Indians have a thousand-year caste system behind their fortunes: the very definition of old money.

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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.

Brown, Dartmouth, USC and NYU are favorite destinations of kids of super wealthy Indians.

Super wealthy Indians are not the same as old money, think WASPs. OP did not clearly describe “snob appeal.” It’s possible she just meant wealthy or smart, but I think of snob appeal as something appealing to WASPs.

The super-wealthy Indians I know all go to Ascot and own hunting clothes. I think you have to understand that WASP culture hasn't been dominated by actual Wasps for quite some time. Also, a lot of super-wealthly Indians have a thousand-year caste system behind their fortunes: the very definition of old money.

But they're brown!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Brown, Dartmouth, USC and NYU are favorite destinations of kids of super wealthy Indians.

Super wealthy Indians are not the same as old money, think WASPs. OP did not clearly describe “snob appeal.” It’s possible she just meant wealthy or smart, but I think of snob appeal as something appealing to WASPs.

The super-wealthy Indians I know all go to Ascot and own hunting clothes. I think you have to understand that WASP culture hasn't been dominated by actual Wasps for quite some time. Also, a lot of super-wealthly Indians have a thousand-year caste system behind their fortunes: the very definition of old money.

But they're brown!!!!

That's what their kids focus on when they write their anti-colonial fantasy trilogies, yes.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Brown, Dartmouth, USC and NYU are favorite destinations of kids of super wealthy Indians.

Super wealthy Indians are not the same as old money, think WASPs. OP did not clearly describe “snob appeal.” It’s possible she just meant wealthy or smart, but I think of snob appeal as something appealing to WASPs.

The super-wealthy Indians I know all go to Ascot and own hunting clothes. I think you have to understand that WASP culture hasn't been dominated by actual Wasps for quite some time. Also, a lot of super-wealthly Indians have a thousand-year caste system behind their fortunes: the very definition of old money.

come on. RU nouveau riche, much?

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Brown, Dartmouth, USC and NYU are favorite destinations of kids of super wealthy Indians.

Super wealthy Indians are not the same as old money, think WASPs. OP did not clearly describe “snob appeal.” It’s possible she just meant wealthy or smart, but I think of snob appeal as something appealing to WASPs.

These days, Connecticut College.

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Georgetown/ Hopkins

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University of Florida

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Anonymous wrote:University of Florida

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

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Anonymous wrote:OP here - clearly didn’t think about the nuance of my question based on the two comments above.

Let’s say snob appeal based on:
- old money
- being smart rather than rich

This post is absurd because it will just devolve into another "where my kid wasn't accepted" list.

It will devolve into something bad.

but this should be fun

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Dartmouth Skiers
Williams Hikers
Bowdoin Lobster and soup lovers
William and Mary for people who remember where Jefferson actually attended
Harvard couldn't get into Cambridge

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Hamilton.

Agree with the Dartmouth skiers - that was so random and true.

Also agree with Deep Springs but that’s an impossibly hard admit. Literally almost impossible. Perfect for Holden Caufields

Claremont Mckenna

College of Charleston

SMU

Salve Regina

—- I have a certain profile in mind, and it’s not new, phenomenal wealth brought about by the Valley or private equity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Vanderbilt really have snob appeal? I grew up in Nashville and 25 years ago Vandy was where the mediocre students in my class went.

The name alone seems to reek of classiness & wealth. Like it or not, names have an impact on snob appeal. Note the absence of Harvey Mudd & Case Western Reserve. Brown’s name doesn’t do it any favors in the snob Olympics, either.