<p>Okay, so I feel like this has been asked before (or something similar), but I've long since forgotten. In the top 25ish LACs, which are characteristically non-preppy?</p>
<p>vassar, oberlin, bates to a certain extent</p>
<p>Carleton is non-preppy!!</p>
<p>Very non-preppy, Reed College</p>
<p>Wesleyan, Amherst, Lafayette, and Holy Cross in the northeast.</p>
<p>Of the top 49 LACs, statistically, the following 10 colleges have the lowest "entitlement indices" - consisting of lowest percentage of private school graduates, highest percentage of students receiving needbased aid, and highest percentage of Pell Grant recipients (low-income families):</p>
<p>Macalester, Bard, Mount Holyoke, Depauw, Smith, Occidental, Agnes Scott, Grinnell, Centre, and Wabash.</p>
<p>The 10 with the highest "entitlement index" are:</p>
<p>Davidson, Washington & Lee, Trinity, Bates, Middlebury, Kenyon, Williams, Colby, Connecticut, and University of the South (Sewanee).</p>
<p>Macalester, Grinnell; maybe Wesleyan</p>
<p>do not think that just because a school is in the south that it is "preppy".
not all students who attend these schools are "preps." also, preppy can be a way of dress or an attitude. there is a big difference between the two which many mistake</p>
<p>I don't know why you'd even think that. Of the 10 with lowest "entitlement index", two are in the south; and of the 10 with the highest, three are in the south (I suspect it is actually only two, as I do not have data on Holy Cross.). Doesn't seem to be a regional thing to me.</p>
<p>par, what are you talking about, holy cross,amherst and lafayette are VERY preppy.</p>
<p>wesleyan, reed, bard, mt holyoke</p>
<p>Many of the mid-western LACs are decidely non-preppy. Try Beloit, Earlham, Grinnell, Oberlin, Knox, Carleton for starters.</p>
<p>Williams more prep than Amherst.</p>