<p>I'll be applying to all northeastern schools, but I've heard that they tend to be very preppy, and thats something I'm really not looking for. I'm not worried about well dressed kids who come from money or anything, I just would rather not go to a school where the student body is too "country club" ish, so... how do these schools rank... Bates, Conn College, Holy Cross, Trinity, Marist, Quinnipiac, Skidmore, Providence, Lafayette, Lehigh, Union, Colgate (any others you could add in)</p>
<p>Colgate tops off the schools you've listed so far</p>
<p>I hear that Colgate is pretty preppy, along with Conn College.</p>
<p>Preppy? </p>
<p>If you are adverse to prep type schools, apply to Bowdoin College, College of the Atlantic, Marlboro College, Bennington College and so on. If you were not stuck to the NorthEast, you should look into Reed College in Oregon.</p>
<p>As I have stated on other blogs, having an objective understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, your character and personality attributes, and your major and minor objectives should give you an outline of what type of schools to examine and find that school that matches fit, forseability and financial aid.</p>
<p>Your list sounds like a list of preppy schools, basically all of them. Doesn't well dressed Eastern kids who come from money=preppy, or at least preppy wannabe? (I know not exactly, but still)</p>
<p>-a Lehigh alum</p>
<p>I don't think Bates and Skidmore are terribly country clubbish.</p>
<p>I'd put it in this rough order:</p>
<p>Providence
Holy Cross
Trinity
Colgate
Lehigh
Williams
Middlebury
Lafayette
Union
Colby
Bowdoin
Hamilton
Connecticut College
Tufts
Bates
Skidmore
Vassar
Wesleyan</p>