<p>Hello. Which of the following schools are the most preppy colleges?</p>
<p>Vassar
Bates
Colby
Connecticut
Trinity
Lafayette
U of Richmond
Colgate
St. Lawrence
Kenyon
Dickinson
Reed
Colorado
Washington & Lee
Oberlin
Grinnell</p>
<p>Thanks a lot!!!</p>
<p>I have a son at Kenyon. He is not preppy, and I don’t think the school is very preppy either.</p>
<p>Kenyon is, as my preppy-hippie friend described it, “Save the Earth preppy.” (She loved it.) Reed and Oberlin are NOT PREPPY AT ALL. Grinnell is only barely a notch below them in un-preppiness, then Vassar.</p>
<p>The preppiest: Colgate, St. Lawrence, W&L, URichmond, Trinity, Colby; Lafayette, Conn College.</p>
<p>I definitely have to vote for the University of Richmond and Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>a ROUGH estimate from most to least:</p>
<p>Washington & Lee
U of Richmond
Trinity
Lafayette
Colgate
Colby</p>
<p>Dickinson
Colorado
Bates
Connecticut</p>
<p>Kenyon
Grinnell
Vassar
Reed
Oberlin</p>
<p>huskem55 - I like your listings. It would explain why my aforementioned “non-preppy” son immediately removed Lafayette, Trinity and University of Richmond from his application list, had Vassar as one of his final choices, and ultimately decided on Kenyon.</p>
<p>Keilexandra - I also like the “save the Earth preppy” description of Kenyon and I think my son would agree too!</p>
<p>30 years ago the “Preppy Handbook” described Kenyon as “Bohemian Prep”. I think it still fits! Also, very-not-preppy D is now at Colby, and loving it! MUCH “save the earth” presence, as opposed to Colgate, where students she visited described the campus effort to go “green” as weird. 
Maybe that was an anomaly, but it was a serious turn-off for her.</p>
<p>Nice cut, huskem55, but I’d combine your first and second categories and drop Colby down into the last group with Kenyon, Vassar, Reed, Grinnell, Oberlin. There’s definitely a preppy contingent at all these schools but they tend to be the alternative/artsy/eco preppies, against the grain of the preppy stereotype.</p>
<p>Boy, there must be two Colbys out there! The one I visited felt extremely preppy. There were several boarding school kids in my tour group, and they kept stopping to talk to current (very preppy looking) Colby students they recognized from their schools. The current Colby students kept saying, “Come to Colby, it’s just like [boarding] school”! Another said not to worry about the lack of a greek system, cause Colby basically was one big frat. Colby also felt much more preppy than Bates and Bowdoin, which I visited during the same week. </p>
<p>I also visited Reed, Grinnell, and Colorado. The first two are on the other side of the universe from Colby as far as preppiness. I also didn’t think Colorado felt preppy, although I wouldn’t put it in the same “anti-preppy” category of Reed and Grinnell.</p>
<p>That said, I saw some footage on UTube of Colby kids coming out in support of some students who were roughed up by campus police, and those kids didn’t look preppy at all. Don’t know where those kids were hiding the day I visited! Like I said, perhaps there’s two Colbys.</p>
<p>lolz, did u do any research on these schools at all?</p>
<p>Georgetown</p>
<p>W&L could be THE preppiest school. Guys there still wear sport coats. I visited the campus on the day of freshman orientation, and when they came out of Lee Chapel, every singe male was in a coat and tie. It’s extremely preppy, almost too much for me and I’m very preppy.</p>
<p>personal approximations, 1-10, 10 being preppiest (and i haven’t visited all of these schools)</p>
<p>Vassar - 4
Bates - 7
Colby - 7
Connecticut -7.5
Trinity - 8
Lafayette -9
U of Richmond -8.5
Colgate -9
St. Lawrence - 6
Kenyon - 6.5
Dickinson - 8
Reed - 1
Colorado - 5
Washington & Lee - 8.5
Oberlin - 2
Grinnell - 3</p>
<p>Lafayette more preppy than Washington & Lee??? Really? Have you been to both schools? I can believe that might have been true when Lafayette had 19 fraternities and was drawing a vast majority of its students from prep schools but that was 30 years ago. The school today bears only a superficial resemblance to the one I remember as a college student.</p>
<p>I’ve only been to washington & lee - hudsonvalley51 is probably more accurate than me! i apologize</p>
<p>I’ve been to both and Lafayette definitely isn’t as preppy as W&L. </p>
<p>Is Colgate really that preppy to be in a class with the others though? I visited and it’s probably my top choice right now, but I visited in the summer so I wasn’t really able to gauge how preppy it was</p>
<p>I’m surprised too by how un-preppy Colby is being rated, relatively. I haven’t visited any of the 3 Maine LACs, but have always heard that Bates is more like Kenyon in against-the-grain preppy.</p>
<p>All I can say is that first-year D at Colby has only met one or two prep-school frosh so far, and LOTS of “normal”, public-school, non-preppy kids. I will say there’s not much evidence of an agressively funky presence there, as there is at, say, Wesleyan. BUT, that said, Colby as an institution and in the student body has a strong commitment to green issues ([WATERVILLE:</a> Colby leads the league in being green](<a href=“http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/5039681.html]WATERVILLE:”>http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/5039681.html)) the arts, international issues, and community service–which goes to the heart of what matters much more than what the kids might be wearing.</p>