I think OP is just having a Roy Moore problem leering at teenage girls.

Rich/upper-middle-class kids are generally better looking than lower-middle-class/poor kids. It's not fair, but the more fortunate kids benefit from better nutrition, more exercise, genetics, good parental modeling, better healthcare, better clothes, etc.

Many LMC/poor kids subsist mostly on microwaved dinners and junk food, and rely on video games for entertainment (as opposed to organized sports/activities).

Yes, of course OP. Money can buy a lot of things that help with good looks

I think in the late 80s and 90s we dressed so very differently. We were, as a pp noted, often purposely in "grunge" clothes. I wore beat up stuff from the Army Navy store, and I wasn't a particular trend-follower - its just what we did back then. I do think kids today are much more fashion conscious and spend time trying to be pretty.

Anonymous wrote:Smart rich kids don't eat fast food. They're all into organic everything and tea and smoothies. Middle class kids don't have the same dietary sophistication.

let me guess...you didn't actually go to school with smart rich kids?

From my observation Princeton, Penn, Brown have the most attractive students. Harvard has the least attractive ones. Maybe it is correlated with the fact that Haravrd students are the brainiest.

Smart rich kids don't eat fast food. They're all into organic everything and tea and smoothies. Middle class kids don't have the same dietary sophistication.

Anonymous wrote:My Ivy picked good looking people to give the tours.

Same

My alma mater's students are less attractive than when I was there in the early-mid aughts, but I think it's mostly because they dress so badly. The students were fairly preppy when I was in school, but now they seem to favor ill-fitting t-shirts.

I was shocked to see how heavy the women were in a recent college magazine.

My Ivy picked good looking people to give the tours.

Yes, but they are much heavier, by far.

It's not the grunge era any longer. Ivy students were almost oppressively attractive at Princeton in the early 80s. Harvard and Columbia students, not so much.

This is a weird observation.

But, I will say that the internet has changed things for a lot of young adults; it take a lot less time to buy cool clothes, learn how to do your hair, research a good product for acne, etc. Everyone is becoming more attractive.

Doing college tours and we’re noticing that there are a lot more “attractive” kids on campus compared to when we were students in the late 80s and 90s

Have others noticed this?