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<p>Does this statement originate from your extensive experience with Princeton students or your many campus visits?</p>
<p>Or an outdated stereotype based on ignorant gossip and hearsay?</p>
<p>I’ve visited most of the Ivy League schools and plenty of small, prestigious LACs as well and I’ve never really gotten much snobbishness from kids at the Ivy League schools. The people at Harvard seemed almost embarrassed about being there. Princeton was nice, low-key and just very pleasant. Yale was fun, bustling and diverse.</p>
<p>The snobbish, wealthy WASP stereotype for the top-tier Ivy Leagues is a relic of a very different time. Nowadays, the schools get so many applicants that they can basically make their incoming class fit any profile they want to–and that tends to be a fairly chill, smart, accomplished, racially, socioeconomically and politically diverse profile. </p>
<p>Few smaller schools have that luxury.</p>
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<p>I wonder that too. Especially as regarding all of the comments about Harvard/Yale/Princeton/MIT being stuck-up when the commenters, in all probability have never set foot at these schools (if they had, it’s probable they would realize how silly these types of blanket statements are).</p>