Brown vs Dartmouth

Gratisfaction
Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:55:58 +0000

Dartmouth is definitely not the “least pretentious Ivy” and neither is Brown. There is no singular mindset of all the students at any campus and you’ll find your share of pretentious students at every school. If your idea of pretentious is more to the tune of a prep school groomed, old money heir, then Dartmouth can be quite like that. As with all the Ivies, you have many kids coming in from prep schools, and the pretentious mentality will be present at Dartmouth. In fact, if you want to judge the campus on stereotypes alone, Dartmouth is known for being quite pretentious, preppy and conservative, though I think that was more of an actuality in the good old days.

Edit before I get flamed: I’m not saying prep school kids are inherently pretentious. I know that to be far from the truth… I am just speaking to an outdated stereotype.