<p>In the Big 10, I only have a good amount of experience with OSU, UMich, and Northwestern, but I would definitely have those three schools in the order in which noimagination has them, with NU as the most preppy and OSU as the least.</p>
<p>Kenyon. A great deal of old money, popped collars, many east coast students. Both DDs visited and I have a graduate who works for me.</p>
<p>Purdue has a pretty good number of preppy students…</p>
<p>Wake Forest students looked pretty preppy to me</p>
<p>mom2collegekids –
re: the kittens – S2 says all the time that if you pop your collar, a kitten dies. I asked him where this came from, and he doesn’t remember, though I have heard it from other kids besides him. Maybe it’s a local thing?</p>
<p>Said roommate with the “face” also showered and changed 3x/day during sorority rush. Brought six suitcases of clothes to college! She also baked herself in baby oil every summer beginning the first warm day on campus every year. I can’t imagine what her skin looks like now.</p>
<p>My daughter attends a private boarding school in Virginia and I can tell you the schools that most all of the girls include on their “college visit” list: Washington & Lee, Wake Forest, SMU, Kenyon, Elon, UVA, Gettysburg, Bucknell, Furman, and USC. I’m sure our location in Virginia has a lot to do with this list, and honestly I have not visited half of these because my D wasn’t interested in all of them. Many of you reference how people dress and I agree with an earlier poster that there are many “imposters” or “preppy wanna-bes” out there. A true “preppy” is born – they cannot be created because in order to be a “preppy” you must come from a long line of “preps”. My daughter and I had a laugh about the fact that all of the above schools somehow made it onto everyone’s college visit list. She does attend a “prep” school, and although we’re not a “preppy” family, we are definitely in the minority at her school!</p>
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<p>Oh. Back in the day, the Columbia stereotype was: hirsute, poetry-reading, Sartre-quoting, chain-smoking (tobacco/other), slightly odorous on hot summer days. And those were just the preppies.</p>
<p>For more on the popped collar and preppy wanna-be’s check out the wikipedia entry for “upturned collar” (redirect from “popped collar”). S1 is a nerd, S2 is crunchy, so all this was news for me. (sadly, nothing about the kittens…)</p>
<p>Agreed - there is authentic preppy (went to prep school, prep school family, preppy life-style) and preppy look. Not sure what kind of school OP was searching for the list. Some schools are both.</p>
<p>Hobart and William Smith, Dear God, Hobart and William Smith. Trinity is terrible too.</p>
<p>Holy Cross and Villanova.
I visited both. At the former, my tour guide bragged about how there is a nail salon in the campus center. At the latter, I could count on one finger the girls who walked by who weren’t wearing North Face fleeces and carrying Coach purses.</p>
<p>“preppy” look should be renamed the “upcale suburban day school” look!</p>
<p>Colgate and Lehigh. Toured, saw it…neither D interested…</p>
<p>Never heard the kitten reference here in the northeast. </p>
<p>As for the girl who baked in baby oil…I suspect her skin looks…old.</p>
<p>I know it’s been mentioned a few times, but I’m going to say UPenn again. When I visited I noticed that the campus was extremely preppy. Also, even though Northwestern has its share of artsy/indie looking students, I’d still say it’s fairly preppy.</p>
<p>Back in 1980 when I graduated from college, there was a book published called The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbaum…and my undergrad college, Saint Lawrence University, was in the top ten.</p>
<p>Here’s a review of The Official Preppy Handbook:</p>
<p>[College</a> Life Book: Preppy Handbook](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_life/preppy.htm]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_life/preppy.htm)</p>
<p>Judging from where the party kids from my rich suburban school go to: Syracuse and GWU. Not really sure though, can anyone elaborate? One’s that I definitely agree with are: Conn College, Union, Rollins, Trinity.</p>
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Yeah…I was gonna say that Columbia is pretty much the quintessential non-preppy top university.</p>
<p>I would imagine that the person who put Columbia in here was thinking of a college with that name, but not the Ivy League university in NYC!!</p>
<p>from a 2005 post on the subject on true preps:
mini’s ‘entitlement index’ addresses this subject in a way: here is one version of his views on it:</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, here is an “entitlement” index, a combined measure of 1) the percentage of students who attended private schools for high school (the first number); and 2) the percentage of students who receive no need-based aid (the second number). Note that it is a year old. The top 10 LACS on the “entitlement” index below. Not meant perjoratively, just descriptively - you can ascribe whatever characteristics to it you want. (For the record, I attended number seven, and fit neither criteria.)</p>
<ol>
<li>Davidson 52/67 119</li>
<li>Washington and Lee 40/73 113</li>
<li>Trinity 57/53 119</li>
<li>Bates 48/60 108</li>
<li>Middlebury 45/60 105</li>
<li>Kenyon 46/59 105</li>
<li>Williams 46/58 104</li>
<li>Univ. of the South 48/55 103</li>
<li>Connecticut 48/54 102</li>
<li>Colby 40/60 100</li>
</ol>
<p>Sewanee: The University of the South
Centre College
Oglethorpe University
Vanderbilt University
Rhodes College</p>
<p>Wearing a blue blazer evert day in the roasting southern heat is difficult, but boys at these top-notch schools pull it off.</p>
<p>To be honest, the true “preppy” colleges are of course the Ivies–
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Penn, Cornell–although they have very diverse student bodies now, you can’t deny that they are the originals, and they are where the old-money, real preps go. </p>
<p>Of course there are many schools where students try to dress for the lifestyle, but they can’t live up to it at all. Kids want to look like they live a certain lifestyle that they don’t–believe me, all of the girls at the catholic school in my city seem to be playing dress up–and this definitely carries over into colleges, as far as I can tell.</p>