<p>Trinity College, CT - very preppy</p>
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<p>I would eliminate Brown and Columbia and concentrate on HYP, Cornell, Dartmouth and Penn. I would also eliminate Vassar and Haverford. UChicago and Middlebury would be borderline.</p>
<p>I would add Hamilton, Colgate, Bowdoin, Kenyon and Carleton. If you’re HYP potential you could add Stanford. If you are female, Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke.</p>
<p>“Preppy” is a slippery label, as even prep schools aren’t all that preppy any more. I do understand what you’re looking for: an academically rigorous school with a middle of the road social and political agenda. This doesn’t mean an extreme rightwing view point, but just equal time, rather than knee jerk liberal reaction. Many medium to large universities – like Yale and UMich – accommodate a mix of personalities and it’s hard to characterize them. The faculties of ALL northeast and mid-Atlantic colleges lean left but some are more apolitical than others.</p>
<p>Are you aware that law is not an undergraduate program in the United States. Many colleges on your list and recommended also do not offer an undergraduate business degree either.</p>
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Mini’s “preppy index” is an interesting place to start.</p>
<p>LACs - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/164958-post57.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/164958-post57.html</a>
(top 10: Davidson, Washington and Lee, Trinity, Bates, Middlebury, Kenyon, Williams, Sewanee, Connecticut, Colby)</p>
<p>Universities - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/164962-post58.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/164962-post58.html</a>
(top 10: Georgetown, Notre Dame, Yale, Vanderbilt, Princeton, Tufts, Penn, Hopkins, Brown, Duke)</p>
<p>Many threads have discussed this in detail.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/11135-preppiest-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/11135-preppiest-colleges.html</a> (15 pages)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/806064-more-cc-research-help-needed-time-preppy-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/806064-more-cc-research-help-needed-time-preppy-schools.html</a> (5 pages)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/985567-preppy-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/985567-preppy-schools.html</a> (3 pages)</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/853218-preppiest-colleges-east-coast-true-sense-word-prep.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/853218-preppiest-colleges-east-coast-true-sense-word-prep.html</a> (2 pages)</p>
<p>For a discussion of the term:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1180069-what-does-term-preppy-mean-you.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1180069-what-does-term-preppy-mean-you.html</a> (10 pages)</p>
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<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/bowdoin-college/907536-there-only-preppy-athletic-types-bowdoin.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/bowdoin-college/907536-there-only-preppy-athletic-types-bowdoin.html</a></p>
<p>Macalester is definitely not preppy. Bowdoin is, and it is not artsy (like Vassar), nor hippie (like, say, Oberlin).</p>
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<p>Thanks for the input, it really helps me decide. </p>
<p>I do know that there isn’t a specific major called pre-law, but I know that most of the schools on my list have majors and courses that would qualify me for law school. The business thing is more of an afterthought, I’m not exactly committed to that. My focus right now is getting my list down to maybe 20 schools at which point I can look at the curriculum more closely and narrow them down even further. </p>
<p>As for liberal, I am actually very liberal, basically socialist. But I’m conservative in other ways, and as a European I’m not too fond of the so-called liberal sub-culture I have seen in America, which in my opinion is quite limited and doesn’t contribute much politically. I don’t think dying your hair blue and piercing your nose is really going to change anything. I know this doesn’t apply everywhere and to everyone but it seems pretty common to me.</p>
<p>Dragon, I think you’ll need to define what those “other ways” comprise, as you’ve confused me here.</p>
<p>You need to look beyond superficial appearances. Some people, especially students, like to identify their social group by their clothing, hair, piercings etc. and some are more neutral. Physical appearances don’t always equal political viewpoint.</p>
<p>If, as a European style progressive/socialist, you seek to find a critical mass that shares your politics, then you are headed in the wrong direction. You would probably be more comfortable at a school like Columbia, Brown, Swarthmore, Wesleyan than at some of the more politically conversative or apolitical schools like Williams, Dartmouth, Cornell, Colgate. At some of the really preppy, conservative schools recommended here – especially in the South – your political views would not be welcome.</p>
<p>I’d also suggest that you not brush off financial advice, unless you are sure of your ability to come up with full tuition. Financial aid for internationals, especially White Europeans, is hard to come by. You need to determine if you can make up the shortfall in your scholarship with need based aid, as many of the schools you are looking at do not offer merit aid.</p>
<p>You would probably be more comfortable at a school like Columbia, Brown, Swarthmore, Wesleyan than at some of the more politically conversative or apolitical schools like Williams, Dartmouth, Cornell, Colgate.</p>
<p>That’s a pretty strange comment. Williams, Cornell and Dartmouth are all solidly liberal schools. I think you’d be very comfortable there.</p>
<p>However, I don’t know anything about Colgate.</p>
<p>“At some of the really preppy, conservative schools recommended here – especially in the South – your political views would not be welcome.”</p>
<p><sigh> Yet another “especially in the South” comment. I know students who attend Southern universities and who have socialist political views. While they are certainly in a political minority, they have not felt unwelcome in any way. People who state their political opinions, of whatever stripe, in a rational, non-belligerent manner, and who are willing to listen to others are going to get along fine at most universities, Southern or not.</sigh></p>