<p>Rank the top 10 preppiest schools.....
I would think they would start like this:
1. Deerfield
2. Portsmouth Abbey
..........</p>
<ol>
<li>Deerfield Academy </li>
<li>Phillips Exeter Academy </li>
<li>The Hotchkiss School
4…yeah, this is where I begin to get baffled.</li>
</ol>
<p>Hmm, maybe Lawrenceville would be somewhere on there.</p>
<p>Middlesex should somewhere on there.</p>
<p>lets hear your top 5
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<p>Mine is
1.Deerfield
2. Portsmouth Abbey
3. Exeter
4. Groton
5. Kent</p>
<p>I recall a funny post from last year describing the level of preppiness at Deerfield as “preppiness to infinity!”</p>
<p>My top five would be:
- Deerfield Academy
- The Hotchkiss School
- Brooks School
- The Taft School
- Kent (I’m not sure about this one though)</p>
<p>Hmmm preppy…dress code (or interpretation by all students), atmosphere, tradition, Harkness, honor code, formal meals. </p>
<p>Deerfield
Episcopal
St George’s</p>
<p>Speaking as someone with a vague notion of “preppy” and no experience with any of these schools, why don’t similarly regarded schools like Andover or SPS make anyone’s list?</p>
<p>Preppiness has a lot to do with dress codes, and Andover and SPS are schools with very casual dress codes. And if I’m not mistaken, the atmosphere is a lot more diverse.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, these are all “prep” schools, so there will be an element of preppy at most of them. Personally, I have a hard time distinguishing the preppiest of them aside from Deerfield, Hotchkiss, and Exeter. The schools that I’m more familiar with don’t seem to be part of the preppiest schools.</p>
<p>All love and respect to my friends who work there, but I think Episcopal may even out-preppy Deerfield. In lots of ways the schools are quite similar, in terms of tradition, formal dress codes, seated meals, lots of athletics, lots of belts with little whales on them, unironic madras jackets, straightfaced seersucker wearers…</p>
<p>Just for fun, I will go with</p>
<ol>
<li>Episcopal</li>
<li>Deerfield</li>
<li>Groton</li>
<li>pomfret</li>
</ol>
<p>@Albion, I was going to also include Groton 
for their crested jackets and everything else.</p>
<p>BTW I completely agree with you on EHS vs Deerfield. Preppy x 1000. Greenwich of the South.</p>
<p>Speaking of preppy, I know that these schools have dress codes, but brunswick and greenwich academy do have some of the preppiest people I’ve ever met. And lots of these kids filter out to other preppy prep schools like DA, Loomis, etc.</p>
<p>What about Tabor? It has the least diversity of any of the somewhat well known schools. The top schools seem too rigorous to be preppy.</p>
<p>I dont know anything about Tabor, but I respectfully disagree that the top schools are too rigorous to be preppy. Deerfield, St paul`s, Groton, Hotchkiss, and Exeter have all been tagged on this thread more than once as super preppy.
preppy is a style of dress. Rigorous applies to academic standards. Ive seen a Lilly pulitzer wearing, coach bag carrying, lacrosse playing girl give an astonishingly insightful analsis ofThe Awakening.There is no connection between the two where any individual kid in concerned. Im all for this thread as long as it`s all in fun. It took me a long time not to make negative assumptions about preppy kids. I imagine the kids who read this board will be smarter about that than I was.</p>
<p>^^Preppy is a style of life, before it is a style of dress. But otherwise I would agree with everything Albion said.<br>
I would put:
Middlesex
St Georges
Taft
StPauls
Deerfield
Hotchkiss
Groton
Episcopal, which has a distinction of being both preppy and southern
Exeter</p>
<p>But those top schools also strongly push diversity and take kids from every income bracket, even taking Indians and Chinese on scholarship programs, etc. I agree that preppy is a lifestyle, not a style of dress, which is why it’s even harder to tell the true preps from neo-preps (the ones who dress preppy because it’s in style).</p>