help me find large schools in the southeast

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm looking for a school
*in the southeast - i can make a stretch and include kansas and missouri all the way to florida & everything in between
*with over 10,000 undergrads
*that has a exercise science or pre-physical therapy program
*that has a great reputation! (it would be nice if you have a legitimate source)
obviously many schools fit this description but i don't have forever to search since i'm going into my senior year this fall.</p>

<p>Academics aren't a big concern for me.. i got a 30 on the ACT and currently have a 3.74 unweighted GPA but it will increase as soon as my straight A's from the past semester get submitted..i have barely any extracurriculars and volunteer work because i play volleyball year round and have a part-time job so i'm hoping to prove that in my essay</p>

<p>pleeease help! :)</p>

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<p>University of Georgia</p>

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<p>UNC-Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>UNC is number one on my list, good call!</p>

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<p>University of Florida
University of NC
University of Georgia
Duke
Clemson
University of South Carolina
Wake Forest (A bit too small now that I look at it, but excellent school/Rep/sports)
University of Texas Austin
University of Alabama</p>

<p>Since you are looking for big/prestigious I would look at these two sports conferences, ACC/SEC</p>

<p>Obviously there is some discrepancy between academics at schools in these conferences, but they are all big and well known for sports they play. Hope that helps. I mentioned only good academic schools above.</p>

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<p>Correction: Duke has nowhere near 10,000 undergrads, and I doubt it has an exercise science major (too pre-professional).</p>

<p>Adding to Cryto’s great list,</p>

<p>Auburn
College of Charleston
Florida State
U Miami
UVA
William & Mary</p>

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<p>University of Florida has a well known exercise science & pre-physical therapy program</p>

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<p>Thanks! This helps a lot</p>

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<p>Although Rice only has around 3200 undergrads, we do have a kinesiology major, which is similar to exercise science. Very few places will have the dedication to teaching and intimate feeling as Rice would. Plus, it has a very good reputation, usually considered second best after Duke.</p>

<p>Just something to think about…</p>

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<p>UVA, UNC, Texas would be the ones that fit your criteria best, although I would also at least take a look at Rice, Emory, Duke, Vanderbilt, and SMU just to make sure you don’t like them.</p>

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<p>U of Texas and U of Florida might be good choices.</p>

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<p>William & Mary is not a large school/ approx 5500 undergrads. More in common with Rice and Duke than UVa/UNC</p>

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<p>The OP has a pretty broad definition of SE. I consider TX/AR/OK/LA Southeast, but not KS/MO…but since the OP does, this includes a LOT of big schools.</p>

<p>Kansas
Kansas St
Mizzou
Arkansas
Oklahoma St
Oklahoma
Texas-Austin
Texas A&M
Louisiana St
Ole Miss
Alabama
Auburn
Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
Georgia Tech
Florida
Florida St
South Carolina
Clemson
North Carolina-Chapel Hill
North Carolina St
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Virginia Commonwealth</p>

<p>Those are all of the huge schools from KS/MO to FL.</p>

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<p>USF and UCF should be on osucowboys list if it is based solely on size. UCF has the largest undergrad population of any university.</p>

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<p>Can we keep in mind the OP’s requirement

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<p>There’s no need to recommend thirty schools, osucowboys, including the University of Arkansas and Louisiana State, if a great reputation is a requirement.</p>

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<p>I would say UF and UNC-CH are your best matches.</p>

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<p>They have a crap reputation in Florida, let alone outside of Florida. I recognize that UCF is huge and that the Orlando area on a whole is booming, but quality? Good reputation? I think not. Good luck getting a job and not getting shot in Orlando.</p>

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<p>I’ll side with you on LSU but not Arkansas. If you had to draw a line and put state flagships on a good half or a bad half, LSU goes on the bad half (and Baton Rouge is a ****hole), and Arkansas goes on the good half. Arkansas has a great reputation, and actually has several great programs…anything with the name “Walton” on it at Arkansas is usually top-notch, and Fayetteville is a stereotypical classy Southern college town.</p>

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<p>That surprises me, although I suppose there are a lot of states we don’t even generally think about that have flagships that are never talked about. The few people I know that are from Arkansas say that the U of Arkansas is god-awful, but I’ll admit that I don’t know it firsthand.</p>

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<p>Well you have to get past all of its weird traditions (although them being weird makes them even cooler in my opinion). I don’t think they even have an ag program but I could be wrong…but I had a high school teacher with a degree from Arkansas once that could do an amazing pig call. At football games they “call the hogs” and shout, “Wooo! Pig! Sooie!”</p>

<p>If you can get past that, it’s a fairly respectable university…lol. As for as SEC goes, I would say not as good as UF, Clemson, UGA, but better than Tennessee, LSU, S. Carolina, Alabama, and Miss State, and about on par with Auburn and Ole Miss.</p>

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<p>USF and UCF aren’t really all that big. They’ve got a huge student population but multiple campuses so it’s deceiving. </p>

<p>Personally I’d go to U Texas because its a good school and I hear Austin is a cool city. UF is alright but I don’t think anybody is bragging about Gainesville. Obviously UNC or UVA if you can get in.</p>