Anonymous
11/22/2023 17:21
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
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
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
Anonymous
11/22/2023 16:59
Subject: Re:Schools with snob appeal
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
11/22/2023 13:06
Subject: Re:Schools with snob appeal
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
11/22/2023 12:43
Subject: Re:Schools with snob appeal
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
11/22/2023 12:40
Subject: Re:Schools with snob appeal
HYP, Williams, UVA, Dartmouth
Anonymous
11/22/2023 12:12
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
Anonymous wrote:Ivy League + Ivy Plus schools. That's it.
Amherst Williams Swarthmore
Anonymous
11/22/2023 12:02
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
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
11/22/2023 12:00
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
For the Nantucket/Vineyard/NYC money set, the NESCACs
Anonymous
11/22/2023 11:56
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
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
11/22/2023 11:51
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
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
11/22/2023 01:39
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
Ivy League + Ivy Plus schools. That's it.
Anonymous
11/22/2023 01:33
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
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
11/21/2023 22:17
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
For super snobby, of course it's Harvard
Then Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt, Penn - particularly Wharton, Dartmouth.
Then Princeton, Brown, Vanderbilt, Penn - particularly Wharton, Dartmouth.
Anonymous
11/21/2023 19:43
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Florida
+1 In the South old money families go to their flagship.
Or Vanderbilt.
Anonymous
11/21/2023 19:28
Subject: Schools with snob appeal
Anonymous wrote:Smith used to be a snob school.
+1