<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>