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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Georgetown, Boston College, Alabama[/b], UVA, Princeton, Wake Forest[/quote]

Um, no.[/quote]

Boston College is [b]Catholic preppy[/b].[/quote]

That is a contradiction in terms.[/quote]

Don't tell the Columbia Country Club set![/quote]

The P is WASP pretty much makes it antithetical to Catholic[/quote]

Being from the south, [b]is there really much of a difference between Catholics with money vs protestants with money? [/b] Of course, most of the Catholics I've known have families who came from Ireland over two hundred years ago. [/quote]

Yes.

Catholics are not preppy.[/quote]

There is a particularly Bostonian pride in proclaiming one's Irish Catholic heritage, even--maybe especially?--among the preppy crowd.

Boston "Irish" Catholic preppy is a whole subset of its own.  I don't know if it exists outside of Boston, but it certainly does there.

I encountered a sizeable prep population at both Boston College and Harvard (undergrad and grad).  BC also has a significant upper middle class Catholic faction, and I didn't see this at Harvard, but preppy "Irish" Catholics abound in the Boston area.  (I put "Irish" in quotes because many of these people are not of 100% Irish heritage, but it is fashionable in their set to emphasize the whole shamrocks and Irish "family names" theme).[/quote]

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