Schools with snob appeal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smith used to be a snob school.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:University of Florida

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

Or Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

For super snobby, of course it's Harvard

Then Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt, Penn - particularly Wharton, Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So where did the snobs go then? That’s the question.

Back then?

Yale or Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Ivy League + Ivy Plus schools. That's it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

If you were from New England, you would know that Stanford and Juliard are not in New England.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

If you were from New England, you would know that Stanford and Juliard are not in New England.

Sometimes people from Connecticut get confused; real New England excludes any portion of Connecticut where the majority of residents are not Red Sox fans.

[Anonymous]

For the Nantucket/Vineyard/NYC money set, the NESCACs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For super snobby, of course it's Harvard

Then Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt, Penn - particularly Wharton, Dartmouth.

Lol Then I must be super super snobby. I turned down Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy League + Ivy Plus schools. That's it.

Amherst Williams Swarthmore

[Anonymous]

HYP, Williams, UVA, Dartmouth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HYP, Williams, UVA, Dartmouth

UVA????

No, sorry it doesn't belong in this group. Unlike the others on this list, UVA's snob appeal is regional. UVA does have snob appeal in Virginia. It does not have snob appeal in the Northeast (where I'm from and where I went to college). It's iffy in DC. Can't speak to the rest of the country but I would highly doubt it.

[Anonymous]

DS went to a NE boarding school that attracts a lot of old money. The most sought-after schools were the Ivies, especially Yale. But for those who couldn't get in, the most commonly attended schools were Georgetown, UVA, and Williams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYP, Williams, UVA, Dartmouth

UVA????

No, sorry it doesn't belong in this group. Unlike the others on this list, UVA's snob appeal is regional. UVA does have snob appeal in Virginia. It does not have snob appeal in the Northeast (where I'm from and where I went to college). It's iffy in DC. Can't speak to the rest of the country but I would highly doubt it.

This isn’t true, sorry.

[Anonymous]

If we're talking historic old money/blue book WASPs, you can find your answer in this article from 1963, "Colleges of America's Upper Class" https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1963nov16-00068/

It's Yale by a lot. Followed by Harvard, then Princeton. Then there's a sharp drop to everything else. For women, it's 7 sisters + junior colleges, more evenly mixed.

Summarizing here:

Colleges most commonly attended by the 1963 college-aged cohort:
Yale (171) > Harvard (123) > Princeton (76) >
Pennsylvania (44)> Trinity > Middlebury > Virginia> Stanford> Williams> Hobart/ North Carolina (tied)> Boston U.> Dartmouth

For women college students, also decreasing order/10+ students listed):
Smith> Vassar> Radcliffe> Wellesley> Wheaton> Bryn Mawr> Sarah Lawrence> 3 junior colleges (Bradford, Bennett, Briarcliff)> Hollins> Connecticut College> Mt. Holyoke> Wells

And for the alma maters of the men listed in the blue book:
Again, Yale (2234), Harvard close behind (1746), Princeton 3rd (1422)
Then there's a sharp drop:
Williams (325), and it goes down from there:
Columbia> Virginia> Cornell> Dartmouth> Amherst> M.I.T.> Trinity> Pennsylvania> Brown> Annapolis> West Point > N.Y.U.> California (Berkeley)> Georgetown> Colgate> North Carolina> Hamilton> Wesleyan