<p>Good lord, why would you want to send your child to a school for the sake of its “preppiness”, and thus limit them to an elitist subculture? The men wear bright green pants, for god’s sake. I was quite enamored with the idea of being “preppy” as a teen until I went to boarding school, when I realized that lobster-scattered pants and hippo-printed dresses were the signs of a very boring, oblivious kind of socioeconomic class whose members choose to distinguish themselves by dressing as foolishly as possible.</p>