<p>It’s okay for rich, white kids to be smart because that’s being preppy and you have friends who are all geared towards the same goal as you, going into law, business, or medicine. But poor kids who are smart generally have no one to hang out with, because they can’t afford the clothes that the preppy kids wear, so they end up pretending to be dumber in order to make friends.</p>
<p>I’ve never had to pretend to be dumber to make friends as a poor, smart person (single mom and all that jazz). The majority of the “preps” in I’ve known tended to come from decent middle class families and are attending regional public colleges/universities. Fortunately, I found plenty of smart, lower-income people similar to me.</p>
<p>However, I’m hoping the situation will be the same when I attend my “elite” LAC next semester. We’ll see, I guess.</p>
<p>I like hanging out with rich kids. I hate being the one always to flip the bill at the end of the night because my friends are too poor to afford dinner.</p>
<p>Preppy where I’m from is a synonym for rich. I mean in order to be a prep you attend a prep-school (private and costs a lot of money), so unless you’re on scholarship everyone at the school comes from money. We do dress a certain way and have nicer things, but I’m glad to be out of my old neighborhood, it’s pretty elitist, full of annoying Republicans, like Donald Rumsfeld. </p>
<p>It’s pretty ignorant for you to assume that preppy people are snobs, who don’t hang out with people from different socio-economic backgrounds. In high-school my group of friends was very limited in terms of variety but now that I’m in college I love meeting people from different backgrounds.</p>
<p>where did i say snob?</p>
<p>well you said that the poor kids can’t hang out with the preppy kids because they don’t have nice clothing, that’s assuming that the preppy kids are snobs who would not want to hang out with someone because of the way they dressed. You didn’t say snob, but you did imply it.</p>
<p>Were I live preppy kids are just people that wear abercrombie, hollister, american eagle, and aeropostale all the time…etc
but then again…idk…lol</p>
<p>ambercrombie, hollister, american eagle is not prep</p>
<p>prep is Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, Orvis, Lily Pulitzer, J.Crew, Juicy coture, Brooks Brothers, etc.</p>
<p>orvis
ORVIS
hahaha sorry but orvis is not even close</p>
<p>I second cracka. If Orvis is preppy… wow. o_o</p>
<p>preppy = rich</p>
<p>Orvis is not preppy lol honestly do not know why that’s in the list, but my dad’s a big hunter and has a lot of gear from there - if you fish or hunt it’s a good place to get gear.</p>
<p>Preppy is fine in my book. RL, Lacoste, etc, none of that wannabe Hollister or A&F homos. They know how to carry themselves in public, in restaurants, bars, etc,…good people.</p>
<p>^ Replace Orvis with Vineyard Vines and that sentence makes sense :)</p>
<p>Logic Warrior, your post totally went over my head, but to answer your question, no it’s not just a synonym for rich. I go to college with a lot of rich kids who aren’t preppy at all, they spend a ton of money to achieve a more urban “hipster” look. Lots of preppy people are rich, but not all rich people are preppy. And it’s best to leave these terms behind after HS, I think.
Wait…what?!! Poor kids have no one to hang out with, because all of a sudden the majority of people in America are rich and there’s barely any poor people around? Most people are middle class, some are poor, a small minority is rich. If we’re all limited within our social castes, then the rich people would run out of friends first 
As for your last sentence…doesn’t make sense to me at all:confused:</p>
<p>Damn. So now I have to worry that since I’m not wearing Hollister or American Eagle at college the rich kids aren’t going to like me and let me drive their Ferrari’s? Damn:(.</p>
<p>lol preppy and being rich do not correlate. I wear expensive clothes but don’t dress preppy at all aside from the occasional polos</p>
<p>I guess you could be poor and preppy, if you’re poor just because you bought preppy clothing or stole it haha. I don’t think it necessarily means you’re rich, but in a lot of cases I think people who are buying things from Lacoste, Armani, Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, etc on a daily basis are definitely rich since they can afford it all. And even if someone’s rich, that doesn’t mean they automatically wear and buy things from those places.</p>
<p>I think the “preppy” style probably resonates more with the middle class than anybody wealthy.</p>
<p>so, since Lacoste is my fave brand, does that make me a prep?</p>
<p>To OP, </p>
<p>You may have the wrong ideal about many things you’ve stated. Also, reading title it appeared as if you had a question. Though once reading your post there was no question, more so you were trying to state your opinion? Then start very negative views?</p>