LEAST PREPPY Private Colleges?

[Papa_Chicken]

<p>I’m having problems with searching archives…but the google search feature yielded this 2004 thread w/ a Mini post on Entitlement Index:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/3326-small-liberal-arts-colleges-universities.html?highlight=entitlement+index[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/3326-small-liberal-arts-colleges-universities.html?highlight=entitlement+index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Mini’s post #15:

Here’s 49 fine liberal arts colleges, ranked by 1) how small a percentage receive any need-based financial aid; 2) how large a percentage of students come from private schools (often, but not always prep schools), and 3) Subtracted out, what percentages of students are on Pell Grants, meaning their families likely earn less than $40k/year. In other words, the entitlement index. Take out the urban ones (double**), and you have a list. Target the northeast ones if you like (single *).. You can get a great education at any of them, and probably 150 more.</p>

<ol>
<li>Davidson 119-6 113</li>
<li>Washington and Lee 113-3 110</li>
<li>Trinity 119-13 106* </li>
<li>Bates 108-9 99</li>
<li>Middlebury 105-8 97</li>
<li>Kenyon 105-8 97</li>
<li>Williams 104-9 95*</li>
<li>Colby 100-7 93*</li>
<li>Connecticut 102-11 91*</li>
<li>Univ. of the South 103-13 90</li>
<li>Bowdoin 98-10 88*</li>
<li>Furman 96-9 87</li>
<li>Skidmore 98-13 85*</li>
<li>Haverford 96-13 83*</li>
<li>Wesleyan 96-14 82*</li>
<li>Amherst 96-16 80*</li>
<li>Whitman 88-9 79</li>
<li>Swarthmore 91-13 78*</li>
<li>Franklin & Marshall 87-9 78*</li>
<li>Barnard 95-18 77*</li>
<li>Pomona 89-12 77</li>
<li>Colgate 86-10 76*</li>
<li>Scripps 88-14 74</li>
<li>Dickinson 85-12 73*</li>
<li>Sarah Lawrence 82-12 70*</li>
<li>Vassar 81-12 69*</li>
<li>Colorado 85-17 68</li>
<li>Lafayette 76-8 68*</li>
<li>Hamilton 82-15 67*</li>
<li>Denison 79-12 67</li>
<li>Wellesley 80-16 64*</li>
<li>Bucknell 75-12 63*</li>
<li>Gettysburg 74-12 62*</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr 76-15 61*</li>
<li>Carleton 71-10 61</li>
<li>Union 75-15 60*</li>
<li>Oberlin 76-17 59</li>
<li>Claremont-McKenna 71-15 56</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd 65-12 53</li>
<li>Macalester 65-15 50</li>
<li>Bard 68-20 48*</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke 68-21 47*</li>
<li>Depauw 59-13 46</li>
<li>Smith 70-24 46*</li>
<li>Occidental 69-27 42</li>
<li>Agnes Scott 66-26 40</li>
<li>Grinnell 53-13 40</li>
<li>Centre 57-18 39</li>
<li>Wabash 38-19 19

</li>
</ol>

<p>hence, going along with the theory that preppy is correlated with Entitlement Index, the “least preppy” schools would tend to be at the bottom.</p>