<p>I've become just a little curious about people's perceptions. So if you were to rank the top-10 LACs from least "preppy" to most "preppy", how would you rank them?</p>
<p>Least preppy - Oberlin.</p>
<p>2 Williams College (MA)
6 Amherst College (MA)
9 Swarthmore College (PA)<br>
5 Wellesley College (MA)
10 Carleton College (MN)
3 Bowdoin College (ME)
7 Pomona College (CA)
4 Haverford College (PA)
1 Middlebury College (VT)
8 Claremont McKenna College (CA)</p>
<p>bobbobob -your ranked 1=most, 10=least, right?</p>
<p>yar. 10char.</p>
<p>i would put bowdoin before williams.. maybe even before middlebury</p>
<p>without ranking them, i'd say these are the LACs that tend to be preppier than the others:</p>
<p>williams, bowdoin, middlebury, davidson, trinity, lafayette, bucknell, holy cross, richmond</p>
<p>Washington and Lee</p>
<p>colgate also</p>
<p>The top ten from least to most preppy (in my opinion):</p>
<p>Swarthmore
Pomona
Wellesley
Haverford
Carleton
Claremont McKenna
Amherst
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Williams</p>
<p>I thought these were kind of hard to rank. If you ask me about LACs in general, I think the preppiest would be Washington and Lee, Bucknell, Davidson, and Lafayette. The least preppy would be Bard, Oberlin, Macalester and Wesleyan.</p>
<p>Middlebury, Colgate, Trinity, W&L, and Conn. College are probably the most preppy</p>
<p>Williams, Colgate, Holy Cross, Davidson, W&L, Colby, and maybe Bowdoin.</p>
<p>Isn't Bennington preppy?</p>
<p>for some reason i dont think youve ever been to bennington. they make fun of my friend for being the only republican on campus... when theyre not all in some sort of drug-induced coma, that is.</p>
<p>the university computer lab is in a barn.</p>
<p>yeah, from what I've heard, Bennington is pretty much the antithesis of preppy.</p>
<p>All I know about Bennington (which isn't much) is through heresay.</p>
<ol>
<li>Washington and Lee </li>
<li>other LACs with a southern feel (Sewanee, Centre, Furman)</li>
<li>other LAC's</li>
<li>hippy LACs</li>
</ol>
<p>Of the top ten, only Middlebury, Williams and Bowdoin have a preppy feel to them.</p>
<p>No, Bennington is not preppy at all, though it has become kind of funny for some people on campus to wear extremely preppy clothes. And as to that drug comment, that is a really worn out stereotype for alternative schools. My friends on other campuses (yes, even those known to be preppy) are around many more drugs than I have ever seen here.</p>
<p>Washington and Lee -- ground zero for southern preps since 1749! Even UVa concedes that . . . .</p>