<p>^^^^^ LOL tk21769!
You should start a thread- other criteria US News should use to rate schools. I’d add “how many trees are there on campus”, “how close is the nearest Starbucks” and “how comfortable are the beds and toilet seats”.</p>
<p>Growing up in the Great Lakes region, Vanderbilt had a reputation as a good school, but always thought of as one of the few good Southern schools along with UVA, UNC, Tulane, and Duke. Emory and Rice are more recent inclusions in the “good Southern school” category. Texas never made it into that category; even though informed people know that it’s currently very good in several fields, they also know it as a school that tried to buy its way into the top schools several years back when it had a lot of money. Otherwise, Texas is more known for football. UVA’s and Duke’s reputation have moved beyond the South. I think Tulane’s reputation suffered as a result of Katrina and its students having to temporarily transfer elsewhere—people wonder if it’s still there. </p>
<p>So, Vanderbilt still has somewhat of a very regional reputation, but its reputation outside the South has grown in recent years. When I lived in the Nashville area, I became much more aware of it as a prestigious school. At the same time, when you actually see it, it reinforces a stereotype as a fraternity-dominated school. </p>
<p>These are just impressions that one gets when the names of these schools are mentioned, not based on that stats.</p>
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<p>Oh, don’t forget my personal fave: quality of the bathroom graffiti.</p>
<p>I think just by listening to the topic creator and the obnoxious transfer that first responded that I would rather go to Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>This whole thread got off of track. People just like this guy ^ are confusing “prestige” with “quality”. “Prestige” is about reputation, aka cocktail party conversation wowing. It has NOTHING to do with educational reality. It is BY NATURE a superficial topic! So stop using words like ‘obnoxious’ to to take a stab at someone adding their opinion about the OP’s question, because in a conversation about PRESTIGE, the whole IS the sum of the parts. Thus, everyone’s perspective matters- even if you don’t agree with it.</p>
<p>^His opinion was fine; it was the ******bag way he said it that annoyed me ;)</p>
<p>TIER 1
Duke</p>
<p>TIER 2
UVA
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>TIER 3
Rice
Emory</p>
<p>This is with regards to prestige only of course. I think Rice is an incredible school, but it simply has no name recognition whatsoever.</p>
<p>^^ But the whole point, ring of fire, is that name recognition doesnt equal prestige. Lots of people have heard of big state schools with powerhouse sport teams, but that has nothing to do with “prestige”</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is a wonderful school. It has fun athletics and is in a neat city. Rice is a better undergraduate school- in my opinion. I have a daughter who is a Rice grad and a Vandy grad student, and she is very glad she went to Rice. They are quite different, really. Both are good- just different.</p>
<p>To the person who commented on “best bathroom graffiti” ---- Grinnell would win in that dept. BELIEVE me. D: Its lower level library bathrooms scarred me for life.</p>
<p>^^^That reminds me of one of my all time favorite lines that I once read in a bathroom:</p>
<p>“Jesus saves…but Gretzky scores on the rebound!”</p>
<p>Honestly, people are kept saying that vanderbilt and Emory are in the same level, (well same ranked in US News), that is so bs…emory is wayyy overrated. Also, what hostaice is saying is true. A lot of students from Texas come to Vanderbilt if they did not get into rice lol. </p>
<p>vandy is not well known outside of South, but people who are knowledgeble elsewhere know it is a good school due to good medical school and such so everybody s t f u.</p>
<p>have u guys wondered why there are few asians at vanderbilt?..probably because it is not prestigious</p>
<p>“What Asians are aware of” does not equal “prestigious.” LOL that they define prestige.</p>
<p>I am asian and according to us (Parents) prestige equals Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Standford, Cal tech, Cal, rest of ivy</p>
<p>Goody goody. Doesn’t make it so and it doesn’t make those handful of colleges the only prestigious ones in the nation.</p>
<p>superstar12. Nothing exists in the middle or southern parts of the U.S. for some people. I am an american, not asian, and I don’t think there are any prestigious universities actually located in asia. Does that sound right to you?</p>
<p>Good one, rjkofnovi. The version I remember from my own school’s restroom wall was:
“Jesus Saves. Moses Invests.”</p>
<p>IBclass06-
The old forum can be accessed by the link at the bottom (archives). The best post from evilrobot that I cousld access was this:
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<p>The link takes us only to the mail “archives” screen, but to find it you can do a search on his name and some threads pop up</p>
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<p>Answers: No and No. </p>
<p>The difference is that Johns Hopkins, U Chicago and Duke students aren’t posting threads asking whether they are as well thought of as a school like Vanderbilt. “Ya dig?”</p>
<p>That said, Vanderbilt is a fine school and the prestige game means precious little.</p>