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<p>All these schools are all in the same general league. I know it makes some people feel really important to split hairs, but it’s silly.</p>
<p>UMich and Ohio State have many similarities - big 10 sports, big football, good engineering programs, good other programs. tOSU is less selective and easier to get into. This thread is about what schools are similar but less selective. No, I don’t expect a die hard Mich fan to attend tOSU, but I doubt they’d go to Mich State either.</p>
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Huh? Wake isn’t like Rice at all, and it’s not very much like Emory either. I can see some parallels with Vandy but would also add U Richmond, BC, and Furman to the mix. </p>
<p>If you like Duke, you’ll almost certainly like Davidson, though it’s also quite selective. </p>
<p>Some of the southern single-sex colleges (Hollins, Agnes Scott, Sweet Briar) may appeal to someone interested in Bryn Mawr or Smith. All of them have gorgeous campuses with very quirky traditions.</p>
<p>If you like Holy Cross you might like Boston College.</p>
<p>If you like Carleton, you might also like St. Olaf.</p>
<p>If you like…</p>
<p>Vanderbilt=UVA (Both southern, strong academics, comparable acceptance rates – at least for OOS students at UVA, preppy, very social, good looking student body, UVA = lots of school spirit, med size, etc.) > BC (solid academics, preppy, lots of school spirit, good looking student body, med size) = UNC (solid academics, lots of school spirit, somewhat preppy, southern, good looking student body, med/large size) = Wake (solid academics, lots of school spirit, somewhat preppy, southern, good looking student body, small/med size)</p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines –> South Dakota School of Mines</p>
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<p>^^ Seriously the best post ever.</p>
<p>I lawled, jayfromla.</p>
<p>If you like Smith, you might like Agnes Scott</p>
<p>what about colgate?</p>
<p>The school most like Stanford is Berkeley - academics, climate, social atmosphere, etc.</p>
<p>Stanford isn’t much like Duke in either academics or athletics (Stanford’s far ahead in both). Their climates aren’t even very similar; Duke has 2x as many rainy days as Stanford and more than 3x as much total precipitation. It also gets a little snow, which almost never happens in Palo Alto. The average high is about the same though.</p>
<p>^ I agree, and that’s probably why Stanford and Berkeley alumni don’t really like each other. My wife who went to Berkeley econ don’t really like my Stanford parents, who both went to Stanford med, and vice versa (though they love each other). they think there’s always a competition going on between the two said schools… lol But bear in mind that the rivalry thing is plainly – friendly. :)</p>
<p>If you like Compton Community College, you might like Brooklyn Community College</p>
<p>“If you love Claremont McKenna ---- you’d like ???”</p>
<p>Davidson or University of Pennsylvania (yeah, it’s a little bigger)</p>
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<p>I always laugh when i hear people try to say that stanford and berkeley offer similar academics; academics =/= only grad school. If academics are meant to be taken as the set of all academics, undergrad and grad., which i think that they are, then i would imagine Stanford towers over Berkeley in this respect (better opportunities, resources, smaller student-to-faculty ratio, etc.) and the rankings reflect that.</p>
<p>USNWR: Stanford-5, Berkeley-22
Forbes: Stanford-5, Berkeley-70</p>
<p>^ I wasn’t looking at rankings when I posted. When I say ‘academics,’ I mean specifically the caliber of the faculty, the resources available, the breadth and depth of programs offered, the array of facilities, and the like - factors that have an effect on the undergraduate experience. Sure, they’re also why the graduate programs are rated highly, but to separate graduate and undergraduate as two distinct, non-interactive entities is completely wishful thinking. In reality the two are very intertwined. That’s actually partly what makes the Stanford undergraduate experience so great. I imagine it would be similar at Berkeley.</p>
<p>Of course, Stanford is smaller, has smaller classes, more funding for student initiatives and research, better scholarships, nice guaranteed housing, etc. but in the end, the academics are very similar.</p>
<p>I was tempted to say that Harvard and Princeton are most like Stanford, given their breadth and depth of academic offerings, their strong faculty, their deep pockets, their selectivity, etc. but while they’re very similar in academics, they aren’t similar in climate or social experience. I think the former contributes a lot to student culture, and there are features at H and P that are just too different from Stanford - residential colleges, eating clubs, final clubs, the lack of a central social space for undergrads at H (which is probably the most common complaint from H’s undergrads), and the like. I’d also say the political climate, especially at Princeton, is different from Stanford, which is ultra-liberal and more like Berkeley in that respect, although Berkeley definitely has more radicals than Stanford does.</p>
<p>So if we discount the social experience and the climate (which I think significantly changes the social experience), then there are other schools that are more like Stanford. But those were the criteria I had when I posted above.</p>
<p>As a senior I myself had difficulty turning down Berkeley given its similarity to Stanford (a problem I didn’t have with Harvard), although the benefits that Stanford offered and the lack of offerings in my area of study (a small niche) at Berkeley ultimately made the choice obvious. Still I stand by my original judgment that the two are most similar for the criteria I mentioned. </p>
<p>edit: RML, I would say that Berkeley students take the rivalry much more seriously than Stanford students. That also means there’s a lot more hate coming from the other side of the Bay than vice versa. I didn’t realize this until actually being at Stanford and then having to go to Berkeley’s campus, outside of Big Game week. You guys really do seem to loathe us. ;)</p>
<p>If you’d like Tufts you’d like. . . .? Help?</p>
<p>If you like Bowdoin…?</p>