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.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt
Brown
Yale

Adding:
Harvard
Princeton
UPenn
William and Mary
Vassar
Bryn Mawr
Barnard
Scripps
Oberlin


Probably tons of other ones.

You must be kidding with Barnard, Scripps & Oberlin. 🙄

Not to mention, William & Mary.

That cracked me up! All those sweet nerdy public school tuition students at W&M are the furthest thing from snobs.

+1. WM parent, and please keep us off your list. We are rel snobby towards snobby people.

Anonymous wrote:Rollins and Sewanee

Really?

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 wrote:Vanderbilt
Brown
Yale

Adding:
Harvard
Princeton
UPenn
William and Mary
Vassar
Bryn Mawr
Barnard
Scripps
Oberlin


Probably tons of other ones.

You must be kidding with Barnard, Scripps & Oberlin. 🙄

Not to mention, William & Mary.

That cracked me up! All those sweet nerdy public school tuition students at W&M are the furthest thing from snobs.

Rollins and Sewanee

Smith used to be a snob school.

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Old Money schools will be the ones established for the longest time in the northeast or midatlantic. In chronological order:

Harvard
William & Mary
St John's College
Yale
U Penn
U Delaware
Princeton

All others are parvenus

Woot. Washington College and Washington & Jefferson must be T25 then

(Yes I know you were being sarcastic. I appreciate it. It was funny.)

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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.

That is not the group we are talking about here

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt
Brown
Yale

Adding:
Harvard
Princeton
UPenn
William and Mary
Vassar
Bryn Mawr
Barnard
Scripps
Oberlin


Probably tons of other ones.

You must be kidding with Barnard, Scripps & Oberlin. 🙄

Not to mention, William & Mary.

SMU

Williams
Amherst
Middlebury

Source: members of my snobby old money family went to these schools

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve seen this term used on this forum a few times. If you were to create a list of schools with snob appeal, which names would be on there?

If snob appeal is a factor for someone, higher education is a waste of tome for them. Just join a country club.

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.

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