<p>You, my friend, are very ignorant.</p>
<p>Academic Prestige according to USNEWs peer-accessment score</p>
<p>1.Duke
2.UVa
3.Emory
4.Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Ah I cannot believe I forgot about UVA! :confused: I assumed the OP wanted a private university without thinking twice about it. But yeah, UVA is a great pick both academically and even socially from what I hear. Duke and Rice are unique in that the student body is more eclectic and the northern influence is more transparent. At least it was to me.</p>
<p>bob jones u fo sho</p>
<p>Duke,Rice,UVA,UF,UG,and the two Texas state schools are probably the best schools in the "south"</p>
<p>To the few Yank's who cannot refrain from calling all southerners hicks and thinking everyone below the mason-dixon is a redneck, I give you the big middle finger on behalf of South Carolina.</p>
<p>Go Gamecocks!!</p>
<p>I would add Wake Forest and UNC to the list on post #42.</p>
<p>Duke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)</p>
<p>I gotta throw in The University of Texas at Austin. Their Plan II program is on par with most Ivy League schools, for half the price.</p>
<p>For engineering, it's definitely Georgia Institute of Technology. Overall, Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory are also well-regarded.</p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>UT</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
</ol>
<p>don't know much about the florida ones.
any tulane should be somewhere in there...haha</p>
<p>Evil Yankee from Connecticut sticking my head in. ;) (BCGoUSC, do you really think we all believe that?)</p>
<p>I admit right off the bat that I know very little about schools in the South simply because I don't want to move far away from home, but when I think of great schools, I think of (in no order):</p>
<p>Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory, Wake Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech (though doesn't everyone hate the campus?), Virginia, Sweet Briar, Davidson (no one mentioned it yet, or did I miss it?), the Citadel, Tulane, and Auburn (though I guess a lot of people don't agree?).</p>
<p>There are lots of others, but those are the "big" ones that come to mind for me personally.</p>
<p>I also admit to not thinking of Miami as being part of the South, or most of central and southern Florida for that matter. (That's why I can't think of New College of Florida being a Southern school. It's just...not.)</p>
<p>For some reason, Texas never seems Southern to me. Texas is kinda like Virginia in my mind -- it's its own beast of sorts. Texas is Southern, but also Southwestern, and even a little Midwestern for good measure.</p>
<p>In any case, I definitely think more Northeasterns should head on down there (assuming you want us :p). If it weren't for distance, there are several schools down there I'd really be considering, like Sweet Briar, Virginia, Wake Forest, and a few others.</p>
<p>Nice post Yankee :)</p>
<p>Well, I try. <em>primp</em></p>
<p>why is washington and lee getting ignored now? it is a paragon of the southern school.</p>
<p>W & L is definitely the ultimate southern gentleman/gentlewoman school with tough academics plus a lively social scene to say the least.</p>
<p>However, one school that has recently been rising in selectivity and prestige has to be the University of Georgia- this year they only accepted 58% of all applicants, which for a state U is quite selective. Plus getting into their honors program is much more difficult than merely having a 1200 SAT like most other state schools- the average SAT for the honors program is now 1438, on par with most highly selective schools. It's definitely got one of the most beautiful campuses and the best college town, Athens, in the entire South (if not nation).</p>
<p>I graduated from the University Of Central Florida in spring 04. I would agree with the others that once you hit Orlando your in the southern version of the midlantic states (Im orginally from Philly). Univ. Of Fla, Univ. Of North Fla and West Fla have more of a southern feel. FSU and UCF are both party schools. Fla. A and M is a historically back school and thats all I know about them. You also have Florida International University in Western Miami-Dade county(out by the 'Glades) and Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.</p>
<p>I believe the New College Of Florida is a division of Univ. Of South Florida. USF (for you theme park buffs) is right near Busch Gardens in Tampa.</p>
<p>Texas doesnt really fall into any regional category. It is almost its own region with probably Oklahoma included. Texas sends kid all over the south due to the top 10% rule. Smart students in the suburbs of Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin who do not fall under the top 10% rule are having to look to surrounding states for an education. The state only has two flagship schools which vastly underepresents its population of >20mil. Many students head to LSU, OLE Miss, UGA, UA, and OU. Rice generally is very selective in admitting students from Texas. While SMU, TCU, and Baylor are very expensive for the education you recieve.</p>
<p>cyp07, that's kinda what I thought. My sister and her husband lived in Fort Worth for a year, and it never seemed like anything other than Texas. Definitely didn't seem like part of the South.</p>
<p>In Florida, UF is prob the best - they're stats are just going up like crazy. For ex., 2 yrs ago, u needed a minimum 1360 to qualify for their honors program, this past yr, it was 1380, I just found out that for the upcoming yr, its a 1400. They usually set this mark as the 75th percentile SAT score from the previous class so this past admissions yr, the midrange was like 1200something - 1400. Thats crazy, I know a lot of ppl there now that prob would not make it in anymore.</p>