<p>college2332... where did those numbers come from?</p>
<p>I'm from east TN. Around here, as far as prestige goes:</p>
<p>Duke (Yeeeeeeeeeaaaah!)
Vandy
UNC/UVA
Emory
Tulane (but totally different to other Southern schools)</p>
<p>If you're going for more than prestige, Sewanee ("The University of the South") is also a good school, as is Birmingham.</p>
<p>Very few people around east TN have heard of Rice...then again, very few people in east TN consider Texas to be "Southern!"</p>
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Sounds valid to me. Swarthmore has tried to project an "intellectual" image dating back to the 1920s, so I would agree with your characterization.</p>
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<p>a Duke degree carries alot of weight in Oregon and Hawaii whereas a Vandy degree may not. </p>
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<p>This is true in my experience at an Ivy League graduate school and the business world in Chicago. Whether it's right or wrong, people have heard of Vanderbilt, but Duke is considered equivalent to schools like Penn and Cornell, and Vandy is not.</p>
<p>so ud shout out to GW but not Miami? I think Miami is a little underprestiged around these parts (mostly cuz it seems to be a party school)</p>
<p>In the Princeton Review's book entitled "America's Elite Colleges," the Ivies, military academies, and rest of the nation's 32 most selective colleges are profiled. The only schools in the South profiled are Duke, Davidson, Rice, and Washington & Lee. Georgetown is also included, but it is not in the South.</p>
<p>Well, 1putt, I guess the Princeton Review is the definitive word and the rest of the southern schools should just shut down.</p>
<p>MomofWildChild - You seem to take offense at my post. I don't know why, as all I was doing is presenting another point of view. The interesting thing about The Princeton Review book is that it is based upon objective data, rather than the subjective name recognition (often developed through D-1 sports programs) apparent on this board.</p>
<p>1putt59, I think MOWC was annoyed because the book seems to leave out quite a few good Southern colleges- especially the public schools. A book that puts in Washington & Lee and Georgetown (no offense to these schools) but leaves out Emory, UNC, etc. should be taken with a grain of salt. For that matter, Princeton Review, its college search engine, and its rankings should ALL be taken with a grain of salt. :p</p>
<p>Duke, Rice, and Vanderbilt are considered VERY prestigious at my school (pretty much in that order), although Emory isn't as well known.</p>
<p>just wondering... where is your school... because kind of a rule of thumb... if some1 considers Rice and Vanderbilt very prestigious they would have also heard (and grouped in the same category) Emory</p>
<p>suburban Houston. The students at the very top have heard of Emory, but others not so much. I didn't hear about it until the end of my junior year when I started looking at PR's college book.</p>
<p>I went to Rice some years ago. I grew up in Florida and at the time I applied to Rice I had never heard of it. (Of course, it was considered the top in Texas at the time which I discovered after I got there.) The southern schools at the top then were Duke, Davidson, and Emory with UVa, Vandy, and Tulane in second place. Since then, UNC and William and Mary have come up quite a bit and Tulane seems to be less popular. One school that is very good, but seems to be left off the list is Furman. I think it's as good as Wake Forest or Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>First of all, I need to define what I consider to be "South." Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tenessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. DC schools are no where near "South." And Texas could be considered south, but I always think of Texas and Oklahoma as being more West or central-ish than the South. It just doesn't have the same atmoshpere (I live in Florida btw). </p>
<ol>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Emory or Wake Forest</li>
<li>UVa</li>
<li>Vandy</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>Miami</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
</ol>
<p>Top Schools South of Mason Dixon line</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
William & Mary
Washington & Lee
Duke
Wake Forest
Davidson
Vanderbilt
Emory
Rice</p>
<p>Honorable Mention:</p>
<p>UVirginia
UNorth Carolina
US Naval Academy</p>
<p>doctorb- What are you smoking?</p>
<p>Any ranking that has Florida or Georgia above Tulane literally makes me laugh out loud. I can't wait for the new rankings to come out so that Tulane moves back up to around the level it should be and people on message boards such as this one stop grossly underrating it.</p>
<p>An accurate ranking of the southern universities (not counting texas or D.C.) would look something like this:
Duke
Emory/Vandy
UVA
UNC
Wake Forest
Georgia Tech
Tulane</p>
<p>Florida
Miami
Georgia</p>
<p>I'm not familiar with the LAC's so they aren't on the list.</p>
<p>Not that I am an expert, but Emory is NOT perceived as being better than Duke IMO. Also, Emory may be located in the South, but a very large percentage of the student body comes from elsewhere. Southerners think of it as a "yankee" school.</p>
<p>OMG! Georgetown? Johns Hopkins??? Great schools, but they are NOT considered the South. I have lived in the South all my life and no one here considers that the South. Trust me.</p>
<p>Wow, some very distorted opinions in here.</p>