<p>If UVA and W&M are academic rivals and W&M and Richmond are academic rivals, then UVA and Richmond should be pretty close right? That just doesn't make sense. Richmond hasn't yet achieved the level where it could successfully compete with Virginia's top three schools.</p>
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<p>I know you said no sports, but the rivalry and bitterness between UVA and VA Tech is particularly bad....though I have no idea why. I guess I could agree with UVA and W&M. I know that if I had applied to both W&M/UVA and got into both schools...I would have a hard time choosing where to go.</p>
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<p>Now I am thinking about that thread in the UVA forum...not to start anything. :)</p>
<p>i dont really think UCLA/USC is a rivalry in academics, especially if you're comparing the entire institutions like how some people are acknowledging the stanford/berkeley rivalry. UCLA graduate school is on a different level than USC.</p>
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<p>Do academics really inspire "rivalries"? Sports definitely do, as do socioeconomics, but do academics? </p>
<p>When I think of Alabama and Auburn or Michigan and Notre Dame or OSU, I think sports rivalry. </p>
<p>When I think of Cal and Stanford or Michigan and Michigan State, I think class rivalries.</p>
<p>But when I think of Harvard and MIT or Penn and Cornell, I think peers, not rivals.</p>
<p>Funny, when I think of Stanford vs. Cal, I don't think of class (or socioeconomic) rivalry, since both my parents were poor as dirt when they went and are still paying off loans.</p>
<p>I think of how those backwards Berkeley kids stole our tree, so now at the games we have the ugly dancing stack of green neck-ties instead. but we stole the golden bear back and then won the Axe, so it's all good now ;)</p>
<p>Except we have had the axe for several years now and Stanford kids are evil.</p>
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<p>Duke and UNC are athletic rivals.</p>
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<p>I think the most interesting rivalries are the ones that exist on multiple levels, academic, class, economic, political, athletic. The most obvious of these are the ones involving a private school and a nearby comparable public school. Examples, Stanford/Berkeley, Duke/UNC, Notre Dame/Michigan, Miami/FSU, Tulane/LSU. There's nothing quite like the spoiled rich out-of-staters at the private schools mooning a group of public school students as they drive by in a Beemer.</p>
<p>But Touguide, I don't think students attending Michigan and UNC are any poorer than students attending Notre Dame and Duke. I do agree with Stanford vs Cal though.</p>
<p>Vicissitudes, except whose name appears on that Axe 37 times? Quite a few more than Berkeley. You've had it for 3 or 4 seasons...wow, remembeer 1994-2001???</p>
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<p>What about the whole Georgia Tech vs. Emory thing? Didn't G-Tech architects strategically place "T" around campus just to be evil? Like that one set in stone at the main library?</p>
<p>I'm gonna go with Princeton/Rutgers... though it may be one sided now there's a long history behind it. Football..cannon stealing...land grant bidding..not to mention the fight over Philosophy/English proffesors.</p>
<p>The patriot league schools (esp, Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell, Colgate, Holy Cross) are rivals academically and athletically.</p>
<p>Even though they are not close to each other Stanford and Cornell share similarities and are rivels when it comes to applicant pool, engineering, professors etc. This is not an accident either since Stanford was started as a copy of Cornell. Leland Stanford recognized that Cornell was the first "modern university" with it's balance of practical knowledge and traditional college subjects, and it's policy of admitting students of all backgrounds. He tried to hire away Cornell's President, Andrew Dickson White but had to settle for one of his best Cornell Students, David Starr Jordan. President Jordan recruited as his faculty many Cornellians leading to the distinctly "Cornell Character" of Stanford.</p>