<p>After I had told my sister (Barnard class of '09) about my "Southern tour" of collegeing-- Washington and Lee, Davidson, UVa, William and Mary-- she was incredulous about what colleges I looked at, because she said that they, as "preppy" colleges, shouldn't be ones for me, a not very preppy girl in the "popped-collar-and-Lilly Pulitzer-dresses" way. I'm inable to find out/decipher any given specifics about any colleges, such as class size, demographics, "preppiness", etc.</p>
<p>So, in your opinion, which would really be deemed the preppiest/non-preppiest colleges and universities?</p>
<p>Furthermore, how important is this feature? My sister is notoriously preppy-- New England boarding school, popped collar, flip flops in snow, the works--but she's at Barnard and is really happy bucking the status quo by joining the college Republicans, and has her own big group of friends. Is that to be expected, or abnormal?</p>
<p>preppiest has gotta be southern methodist</p>
<p>Preppy --- Vandy, UVA, Colgate, Middlebury, Princeton, Rollins, Boston College, Villanova, Wake Forest, Hobart, Dartmouth, Duke, Williams, Georgetown, Bowdoin, Colby, Trinity (CT), Davidson, Bucknell, Washington and Lee, Lehigh, Conn College, Denison, Lafayette, Georgia, SMU, USC, UDelaware, Rollins, Miami, Richmond, Gettysburg, and Loyola-Maryland.</p>
<p>Schools in the south and new england schools with lots of boarding school kids tend to be the preppiest. the preppiest schools i've seen are probably W&L, Trinity, UVA, SMU, and G-town.</p>
<p>non-preppy, look in the midwest and west.</p>
<p>I don't see the problem with "preppiest", you might want to buy more "preppy" clothes, but other than that, I don't see how it really affects your life (I go to W&L)</p>
<p>Really? I live about 20 minutes away from Sarah Lawrence, and it's "alternative" to the point of being way too fake and wannabe intellectual for me. Bryn Mawr, as well, is quoted in a college book as saying something along the lines of "we have many Greek and Egyptian reconstructionists, pagans, goddess worshippers, Buddhists, and other magical people".</p>
<p>Hah..."Buddhists, and other magical people"...</p>
<p>But anyway, I dont know much about colleges in the midwest and west. I should go look into that...oh, and what about UChicago, then? I haven't been able to visit it, so I don't know.</p>