<p>Looking for recomendations on southern schools...somewhere between gun toting, rebel-flag waving rednecks and bmw driving popped collar preppy boys is pretty much the ideal school. most people in the south including me fall into a lil of both so please name some schools...here's what i have so far:</p>
<p>Duke (Not really southern environment)
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Auburn
Furman
Washington & Lee</p>
<p>Also, descriptions on the above and their 'southerness' would be helpful..thanks...</p>
<p>Rice
Georgia Tech (best engineering in the South)
University of Virginia (best public school in the South, arguably the best undergraduate public school in the country)
University of North Carolina
William & Mary
Emory</p>
<p>Some excellent liberal arts colleges that are proudly in the South - Hendrix College in Arkansas, Milsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, Rhodes College in Memphis, University of the South (Sewanee) in Tennessee, Centenary College of Louisiana, Berry College in Georgia, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, Birmingham-Southern College, and so on.</p>
<p>Duke, Vandy, and Emory have less than 50% of their students from the South.</p>
<p>Emory has large percentages of students from Long Island and definitely is not southern. As a Vandy student, i would only categorize two of the 15 frats as southern (KA and SAE). There are still kids who follow traditions (ie. dress up for football games) but I think you are a decade late if you are looking for a complete southern school. For instance, I'm republican but was heavily outnumbered by liberals in my intro political science class. The school has about a 50/50 split.</p>
<p>So even though this is a general post about southern schools i'm really being selfish (sorry) and looking for schools that fit me well haha....I've got an average GPA of about 3.5 and an ACT of 32. Pretty good essay's for the school's i've applied to and good recs. lots of extracurriculars. for the following schools </p>
<p>-Washington & Lee
-Wake Forest
-Vanderbilt</p>
<p>-How hard are they academically?
-How hard are they to get into?
-Preppy is ok, but how much southern culture?</p>
<p>Wake and Duke are preppier than Davidson, IMO. Davidson actually sounds like a relatively good fit. </p>
<p>I would suggest:
Davidson
Elon
UNC Chapel Hill
Clemson
Winthrop
College of Charleston and/or USC
U Georgia
Emory
UVa
College of W&M
Florida
Rhodes
U Richmond</p>
<p>I don't know much about the other two you listed, but Wake Forest is very difficult academically. After all, it's known as "Work Forest." It's still not as competitive as Duke and Vanderbilt, but its average SAT score this year was a 1380 (60 point jump from previous year), showing both its increasing quality and competitiveness. Wake Forest is preppy and conservative, but it is still a very Southern school, more so than many other schools I visited. The student body is extremely friendly, and the campus is small and beautifully landscaped (if you like magnolias). Basketball is very popular, of course, and the student body is very spirited. Wake is fairly generous with merit $, and its dorms are very nice and well-equipped. I personally think Wake Forest is a rapidly rising college, and I turned down U Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Davidson, UNC, etc. for it.</p>
<p>The OP had Auburn on his list, so Elon didn't seem odd. Anyway, US News ranks Elon in the top 5 for Southern master's schools, so it's not that bad. Its gender ratio is very lopsided, though.</p>
<p>Really? Don't get me wrong Elon is a good school, but i wouldn't consider it top. Also i did notice Auburn up there so you have def. have a point.</p>