<p>You have those who dress in preppy clothing and you have those who believe that dressing in preppy clothing allows them to treat others like dirt. I won’t apologize for wearing argyle, but I can’t stand people looking down on others for what they wear. My stuck-up, snobby fellow devotees of Pink and Lime Green disgust me. </p>
<p>I second UVA, W&L, Vanderbilt and Northwestern as places where students dress in clothing that might be considered “preppy.” I can’t speak to attitudes of students, but there are bad apples in every bunch.</p>
<p>Quoted for emphasis. Preppy does not equal rude. It just means that the person has certain dressing tendencies, just like any other style. Also like any other style, some people who dress in a preppy manner happen to be rude. That can be said about any style.</p>
<p>Schools I’ve visited or know are preppy: Colgate, UVA, Richmond, Syracuse, W&L, Hamilton, Dartmouth, Villanova, Furman, Davidson, Wake Forest, Boston College, Trinity (CT)…those are what I can think of right now</p>
<p>I never thought of “preppy” as simply clothing, but I never used the term to describe snobbishness. I just thought of it as a homogeneous society of mostly privileged whites that have the whole Cape Cod vacationing, Polo wearing, country club tennis playing thing going on… It doesn’t mean that they’re bad people.</p>
<p>But yes, Ivies, northeastern LACs, and some of the aforementioned southern school are preppy. I’m not so sure about the west coast… the few times I’ve visited there I didn’t see much prep.</p>
<p>“I just thought of it as a homogeneous society of mostly privileged whites that have the whole Cape Cod vacationing, Polo wearing, country club tennis playing thing going on… It doesn’t mean that they’re bad people.”
Actually, probably even more likely to be found on Nantucket, the Vineyard, or the Hamptons. ;)</p>
<p>I have spent way too much time investigating this in a desperate attempt to not attend a preppy college.
Trinity, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Haverford, Miami University, UVA. Basically, most top schools, it seems.</p>
<p>^^^^^^
you say you don’t like these people because you think they look down on others and judge them. then you do the same thing. if you’re interested in those schools, you should give them a chance.</p>
<p>Most East Coast schools are generally preppy, with the glaring exception of Wesleyan.
Check out the alternative, or “hippie” schools on the West Coast and Midwest (if that’s the kind of thing you mean by non-preppy).</p>
<p>To name a few: Reed, Pitzer, Oberlin, Kenyon, St. John’s College (Anapolis and Santa Fe), Grinnell</p>
<p>Pomona, from what I have experienced so far, is borderline-preppy. The students seem much less preppy than our reputation implies, but we do not have the all-out in-your-face quirkiness of a school like Reed or Wes. It’s more relaxed here.</p>
<p>You should definitely look more deeply into highly-ranked-but-otherwise-off-the-layman’s-radar schools. Preppy people tend to like big name schools because they want to brag about it at the country club.</p>
<p>Yes, 1980collegegrad…agree 100%!
many of the Ivies are large enough and diverse enough I would not call them “preppy.” The smaller East Coast LACs are alot more preppy than Ivies!</p>
<p>Definitely NOT Northwestern…preppy schools are usually the LACs on the east coast and southern schools…from experience I know Richmond, Amherst, Middlebury, Vandy, Davidson, and Duke are all super super preppy (duke probably a little less so than the others)</p>
<p>Just throwing it out there that not all of Furman is preppy. My entire hall (27 girls) seems to find the sight of other girls running to class in heels and a dress ridiculous as we prefer the comfort style. I heard a lot of agreements from the music students during band practice as well. I will admit, it was one of the things I worried about when I decided to go here. However, it seems less prevalent everyday than it does on Fall for Furman days. The polite, welcoming attitude, on the other hand, did not disappear.</p>
<p>Elon. I was originally planning on applying as a safety/back-up, but the prep factor turned me off of it entirely. It just wasn’t a good fit for me.</p>
<p>for sure I go to Furman University outstanding school but yes preppy classy southern love it here.If you are not preppy you stick out like a sore thumb.No one would say anything but you would feel it . Love the school born and raise in Northeast and will never move back I love the south and the people.</p>