From the Preppy Handbook (Granted, this was 1980, but still the authoritative source):

Babson
Hamilton
Hampden-Sydney
Hollins
Lake Forest
Pine Manor
Princeton
St. Lawrence
Sweet Briar
UVA

Runners Up:
Amherst
Colby
Colorado College
Connecticut College
Georgetown
Reed College
Trinity College
Vassar
Williams
Wheaton

Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard, unless things have really changed, the Ivys don't have "a Greek scene" and actually scorn such stuff. They do have dining clubs, however.

Haven't you seen "The Social Network"?

Agree with PP, the Greek scene is alive and well perhaps under a different name..its all the same. A bunch of horny rowdy college kids looking for an excuse to get drunk, get laid and make an ass of themselves..yes even at Harvard.

Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard, unless things have really changed, the Ivys don't have "a Greek scene" and actually scorn such stuff. They do have dining clubs, however.

Oh, boloney. The clubs at Harvard, Princeton and Yale function just as fraternities and sororities do, regardless of their names or provenance. The "Greek scene" is very active at Dartmouth, Penn, and Cornell, and, exists even at Columbia and Brown.

I went to Harvard, unless things have really changed, the Ivys don't have "a Greek scene" and actually scorn such stuff. They do have dining clubs, however.

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Anonymous wrote:The Wesleyan grads I know are pretty much the opposite of preppy.

Funny, I always thought it would be preppy. Kind of the place that prep school lacrosse players would go? But I guess my assumption is wrong. What's the true insight.

No. Ultimate frisbee is the popular sport there

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Anonymous wrote:Trinity is very preppy. So is Miami of Ohio, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt..UVA and several Ivy "wannabees".
My kid just graduated from Princeton. It was less preppy than her private school here in DC. Also, it doesn't have a big Greek system...in fact, the university doesn't authorize the Greek system.

Yes, I've heard Miami of Ohio is really preppy

Most state schools aren't as preppy as private ones. Miami of Ohio is a public school. Odd that it would be preppy.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, Boston College, Alabama, UVA, Princeton, Wake Forest

Um, no.

Boston College is Catholic preppy.

That is a contradiction in terms.

Don't tell the Columbia Country Club set!

Not real Catholics. CINO

Univ of Richmond is very preppy but sounds like she can aim higher so for Ivies I would say Princeton

Is there a nice happy medium school? It seems that either a school is:
too Greek
too crunchy and everyone smokes dope
too preppy and full of boozers

Perhaps we should save money and homeschool for college

Of course there is a middle ground. People like to talk in exaggerated stereotypes when discussing schools. Just as they do when they are discussing cliques in high school. Have you never med a smart otherwise well rounded person who is crunchy and smokes weed or boozes? At any school with any "reputation" there are going to be kids who are in the middle and not into partying or not into smoking weed but are academically interested and artsy or whatever.

Is there a nice happy medium school? It seems that either a school is:
too Greek
too crunchy and everyone smokes dope
too preppy and full of boozers

Perhaps we should save money and homeschool for college

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, Boston College, Alabama, UVA, Princeton, Wake Forest

Um, no.

Boston College is Catholic preppy.

That is a contradiction in terms.

Don't tell the Columbia Country Club set!

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, Boston College, Alabama, UVA, Princeton, Wake Forest

Um, no.

Boston College is Catholic preppy.

That is a contradiction in terms.

No, Catholic WASPY is a contradiction. Preppy is really more of a way of dressing and life style. WASPY is an overall way of being, which is often preppy but a lot more.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, Boston College, Alabama, UVA, Princeton, Wake Forest

Um, no.

Boston College is Catholic preppy.

That is a contradiction in terms.

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Anonymous wrote:What is preppy?

High quotient of kids from private schools, preferably boarding schools or at least something with "Country Day" in the title. Parochial schools don't count unless Episcopalian.

Right. Someone who has actually been "prepped" for university. As opposed to whatever it is the poors do.