Can you give me a list of some small(2,000 students or less) PREPPY, POSH colleges. (I hear Hampden-Sydney is the best in all of those categories)
Do you have strong academic credentials? How do you define “preppy” and “posh” (a term rarely used in the US)? The term “preppy” is seldom used to accurately describe people who actually went to private secondary schools. It is used far more often to describe highly-conventional, white suburban kids. True preppies are often more eccentric and diverse. NYU might attract a “posh” student body, but its student body is urban and cosmopolitan - not the “popped-collar” crowd. Are these superficial characteristics more important to you than academic excellence? Davidson probably fits your requirements, if you qualify academically.
I am looking for a combination of both. I want a student body full of popped collars, and white suburban kids. I also want a strong academic school with small classes, and a strong Political Science program. Like I said, people have recommended Hampden-Sydney and Gettysburg. Would these 2 schools be good fits?
I don’t know enough about either to judge. Will you have an opportunity to visit some campuses in the South and mid-Atlantic this summer? Are those the areas you are most interested in? One college I seldom see referred to on CC that always had a very preppy reputation is Lake Forest, near Chicago. It might not be as appealing for outdoor activities year-round, given the weather.
Check out Sewanee.
Wake Forest, Richmond, Lafayette, Bucknell, Boston College, Middlebury, Williams, Trinity, Vanderbilt, Colgate, Connecticut College, SMU
Who knows if OP is real or not but now this thread has become racially offensive and needs to be stopped.
katkatmouse - I used the term first, to define what many people think of when they used the term “preppy,” as distinct from “posh,” which usually has more glamorous, cosmopolitan connotations. Kim Kardashian is posh, not preppy. The many Asian students at my kids’ prep school probably don’t fit the OP’s concept of “preppy,” whereas a lot of kids in our public high school would. The words you cited as provocative were strictly used to frame his definition of the term “preppy,” as distinct from a term to describe people who went to private schools. “Posh” might have slightly different connotations overseas, but it is quite different from “preppy” here. I have inferred that this OP, and another student who has posed similar questions, might actually be Asian or International, because “posh” is not as popular a term here as it is elsewhere.
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Wow…and what??? and why???
Why do you want to go to college with white suburban kids? Why does the race of the people you go to school with matter to you? If anything, wouldn’t you want as diverse a college experience as possible to prepare you for the real world where you won’t be around “preppy” white suburban kids all the time?
What is WRONG with you???
People can go to historically black colleges too, right? There’s even a list of Top 25 Colleges for Black Students. Also in the news is the first accredited Muslim college.
I’m not sure what the big issue is. Why is it are people offended?(I thought this was a free country) I can go to whatever kind of college I want. I’m not trying to be racially offensive. I was just giving a generalization of the kind of school I wanted to attend(besides I didn’t use the quote first)
I share the misgivings of others about the direction this thread has taken…
But to answer your request yesterday for schools with “small classes, strong academics and a good Poli Sci program” I would add Franklin & Marshall to the list. It has all the above, with a very preppy/suburban vibe.
If you have been following the news, there is quite a stir about an Oklahoma frat being caught singing a song about how their organization will always remain white, using racist language. Across the US, people are wondering how deep this sentiment persists in 2015. A thread such as this one seems to answer this in a sad way.
What in God’s name are you talking about? Are you saying that I am like those idiots in the frat?(ALL of those guys should e expelled) When I said “white suburban kids” I was trying to say that I want to attend a school with a PREPPY, RICH, student body.(I don’t really care much about race)
Then you should not have said “white.” Words have meaning.
If you want students who come from wealth, the schools with the lowest percentage of students on Pell grants may be a starting point. On the other hand, avoiding those from low income backgrounds in college is not necessarily considered desirable by many.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/economic-diversity-among-top-ranked-schools
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2009/09/10/new-rankings-college-economic-diversity
While few are explicit about it, it does seem to matter to many students posting here. For example, non-black students tend not to be interested in historically black schools, even when there is big scholarship money on offer.
Check out Villanova, they don’t call it “Vanillanova” for nothing. 
Elon might be another one, I have a friend whose son is looking at the same types of schools and he is leaning strongly toward Elon.
@woogzmama I use the word posh all the time. Maybe it is a regional word choice in the US?