<p>Am I nuts for thinking that Princeton is really not nearly as preppy as a LOT of other colleges? There are so many other more worthy candidates.</p>
<p>Rollins College</p>
<p>but what's so freakin cool about a popped collar and a stupid pink polo?</p>
<p>Georgetown, Colgate, Trinity College (CT), Colby College, Middlebury (of the schools I visited)</p>
<p>What are your thoughts about Sweet Briar? I'm skeptical about an all-women's school, but it looks beautiful and very nice. Apparently the girls from SB hang out with the Hampton-Sydney boys, which is the preppiest men's school and their "brother" school, so I'm assuming SB is very preppy as well? </p>
<p>I'm a very liberal girl from the North so I'm not sure how I'd feel...especially if everyone was republican and if it had a deep southern feeling.</p>
<p>Princeton just isn't that preppy. It has kids from prep schools but I think fewer than Harvard and Yale.</p>
<p>Princeton is more SOUTHERN than the other Ivies. The two get confused.</p>
<p>Princeton, Vandy, Georgetown, Notre Dame</p>
<p>Princeton is no longer "preppy" and if you want to know about "Southern" NJ manners at Princeton decide for yourself all you have to do is just read the Daily Princetonian and "ask the Sexpert" or read the Nassau Weekly online. these publications are written by Princeton students not by anyone else. You will love them!</p>
<p>Preppy, or prep originated out of prep school (styles worn by students) and is intrinsically tied to athletics. Think of the newspaper prep of the week. A prep is a scholar/athlete who has received a prep school education. A prep school is one that preps (prepares) students for college. A prep and a jock are essentially the same thing so long as the jock is in college or is in a school that preps for college.</p>
<p>For state schools, UVa, UNC, Georgia, and Ole Miss are way up there. Both the Alabama schools and then UT-Austin (this one is only hearsay though) are pretty "preppy" as well. I have the most experience w/ UVa and Ole Miss and they are definitely preppy schools. I looked at a lot of small Southern schools that fit the description to a T, like Sewanee (where I'll probably go), Hampden-Sydney, W&L, Rhodes, and Davidson (like I'll get in at Davidson! HA!). I don't know too much about the northern schools, although my dad went to Penn for grad and said it was preppy- he would know, he went to UVa undergrad, wears the same ten Brooks Brothers dress shirts in rotation, drives a beat-up BMW, etc... haha. I've also heard Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton have a visible amount of preps, I'm sure Harvard does too. Hamilton and Middlebury are apparently pretty preppy? I know Trinity is. Whatever, though, this is a kind of vain topic. I wouldn't be lying if I said I liked wearing Vineyard Vines ties, though.</p>
<p>P.S. The South has so many preppy private schools like Wake, Vandy, SMU, Wofford, Duke, Richmond... I could go on.</p>
<p>Recently went to visit some Virginia schools and boy are they preppy. Sweet Briar is prime prep- the school colors are pink and green and they have over 30 private horse owners! Also an absolutely amazing school that I would love to go to. I know W&L is very preppy..but also very northern (i.e. like Duke, majority of the students are from mid-atlantic, new england schools.) </p>
<p>Forget if it's been mentioned but ST. LAWRENCE! I would say almost everyone at my school applies there, and a huge amount of prep schoolers end up there when they get rejected by Yale, etc. It's pretty much on par with Trinity, I'd say. There are certain schools that admissions counselors at most prep schools recommend b/c they have similar atmospheres, and SLU is definitely one of them. Therefore there are lots of wealthy kids there...my friend's roomate just left for a few weeks to go pick up her new horse in Belgium hahaha...outrageous!</p>
<p>The south is really bad.</p>
<p>They wear polo shorts about 4 inches above their knees and match the color of their shirt to the color of the their polo man on their shirt, to the color of their polo hat. </p>
<p>They have no style, and rely on wearing "classy/preppy" brands to dress nice.</p>
<p>This is from someone from the midwest who goes to school in the South.</p>
<p>And they are not nice... They are nice(like someone said), if you are rich, white, heterosexual, are extremely mild-mannered, and Baptist or whatever it is.</p>
<p>I'd say the west and midwest take the cake on the best part of the country to be. </p>
<p>For the preppy southern schools:</p>
<p>SMU
TCU
Ole Miss
UVA
Richmond
Duke
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest</p>
<p>Anyway check this list of Little Class/Race Interaction, as it usually coincides with preppyness <a href="http://princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=2&topicID=19%5B/url%5D">http://princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=2&topicID=19</a></p>
<p>haha that's something that worries me. I'm a northern roman catholic, but really want to go to Sweet Briar..not sure if it'd be too intensely baptist or anything.</p>
<p>I know this thread is long dead...but I was searching for preppy colleges and found it!
would anyone say there is a large old-style preppy contingent at Penn? I know alot of prep schoolers attend there and id like to see whether it is a place I'd fit in...I'm typically preppy in the truest sense of the word - LL Bean preppy.</p>
<p>People have already mentioned Richmond--as preppy as UVa.</p>
<p>Further south, check out Rollins in FL---really preppy.</p>
<p>I haven't seen anything said about Bowdoin.
I have read that Bowdoin is very very preppy.
Is that not true?</p>
<p>UVA is preppy as hell.</p>
<p>Someone mentioned Salve Regina as preppy. I'm going there next year, and while alot of kids do come from Prep schools, more do not. I think the preppy factor at Salve is the fact that it's in Newport, RI, which is one of the major summer spots for people with money from all over the Northeast, and it has been that way for literally over a hundred years.</p>
<p>Seems to me like Dook is pretty preppy.</p>
<p>Princeton, Georgetown, UNC</p>
<p>but UVa takes the cake</p>