Yeah Im gonna put it out there there uchicago is not a preppy school overall, though you do find a lot of investment bankers there
Grinnell, preppy? No . . . .
For California, I’d rate Stanford as more preppy than USC. At USC everyone walks around in shorts and flip-flops, which doesn’t fit my definition of preppy. At Stanford, I’ve seen people bringing their tennis rackets into class. Plenty of students at both schools driving around in BMWs, though.
I haven’t seen any preppies on the Tulane campus. Everyone seem to be wearing T shirt and shorts.
Furman or Wofford is more preppy than College of Charleston IMO
I’d say Occidental, or any of the Claremont Colleges, are preppier than any UC, in CA. I usually have to withdraw from these threads, because - unlike most of those commenting - I’m an actual alumna of a private boarding school, married to an alumnus of a private boarding school, who sent her sons to a private boarding school. I’m a preppy, who’s spent her life among preppies, and I’m therefore incapable of defining the word as it is typically defined in sit-coms and clothing catalogs.
I would vote UCSB over Pepperdine.
California: Stanford
Connecticut: Yale
Florida: U Miami
Georgia: Emory
Indiana: IU
Maine: Colby
Massachusetts: Harvard
New Hampshire: Dartmouth
New Jersey: Princeton
New York: Fordham/ Hamilton
North Carolina: Duke
Ohio: Miami of Ohio
Pennsylvania: U Penn
Rhode Island: Brown
Tennessee: Vanderbilt
Texas: SMU
Virginia: Richmond College
Just my perspective of some states
DePauw is extremely preppy-- but in a good way.
Brown isn’t very preppy.
Washington and Lee is probably the most preppy college in Virginia but the state sure has a lot of preppy schools.
Colorado College isn’t really that preppy.
I’d put Providence College above Brown on the Rhode Island preppy scale.
Agree with SMU in TX.
In NY, I’d probably say Colgate.
Trinity for CT.
^I agree PC before Brown. But maybe Salve Regina for a Newport style.
Totally agree. It has a fun and inclusive Greek system.