<p>^^ The relationship between Duke and the deep south is a little like UT-Austin and Texas–Duke is not in the south, but you can see it from there.</p>
<p>Duke, Stanford, Rice. For LAC"s- Davidson, Holy Cross, Bowdoin-all 3 have strong alumni networks that are a plus in weak economy.</p>
<p>And don’t forget Olin! I can’t believe how awesome this place was. A little story.
When I visited Rochester Polytech Institute, I met a group of people. When I said I was from MIT, they looked at me weird and kinda secluded me away. I felt awkward.
When I visited Harvey Mudd, and the people there found out I was at MIT, they treated me like a superior and wouldn’t help me with my math problem sets. They said “You’re from MIT. You can do it right?”</p>
<p>I visited Olin and met a really cute girl. She found out I was from MIT and said “Cool.” That’s about it. She proceeded on helping me with my math problem sets and pretty much out-thought every solution I was coming with. Her girlfriends and guyfriends came over and offered to help too. I’ve really never met such an amazing group of kind, ego-less, and smart people ever!</p>
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That is pretty ignorant. I guess nothing in the South compares to the cultural-mecca that is Philadelphia.</p>
<p>There are two great things about this amazingly pointless discussion. First, no trees had to die in order to make the paper that would have been needed to have this argument “the old fashioned way”. Second, in a hundred years, most, if not all of us will be long past worrying about whether Duke, Vanderbilt or Olin have gained or lost prestige.</p>
<p>^Yeah I agree…this is 2010. Slavery and blatant racism is pretty much a nonexistent issue. Besides, its northern North Carolina. Its a lot more liberal than the deep South. Haven’t you heard of the Research Triangle? Cary City of NC? Raleigh, NC? How about Charlotte, which is ranked among the best 10 cities for 20 year olds along with DC, Houston, and NYC? </p>
<p>Please don’t talk and expunge information that can mislead future CCers who will be reading through these threads. If its for fun/joking around, then use smilies or sarcastic expressions.</p>
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I wasn’t aware that North Carolina qualified as the “Deep South.” Your statement proves that there are idiots everywhere in America, not just in the South as you would have us believe. (And yes, I am a UNC student taking the time to defend Dook.)</p>
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Well it was pretty obvious it was sarcastic, besides using smilies just ruins it :)</p>
<p>I have my money on small, brainy liberal arts institutions like Harvey Mudd, Reed, Swarthmore, Chicago… More and more kids are discovering their coolness.</p>
<p>North Carolina is in no way the deep south.</p>
<p>Anyway, what about University of Virginia? Does anyone here think it may gain?</p>
<p>UVA really perplexes me. It’s been voted the second best public university, 25th best national university, and most college guides give it 5/5 stars. Yet I feel like it really does not have any prestige at all.</p>
<p>^Good point. But the public university that may gain prestige is probably UCLA. I’m not too sure abou UVA. Its very old and I believe its somewhat saturated? I really don’t know, just a hunch.
But I know for sure UCLA is rising rapidly. Its already getting more selective, and its garnered a LOT of prestige in California. It can potentially overtake Berkeley. Can.</p>
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<p>Not sure if UCLA cares about overtaking Cal. On the other hand, they staying ahead of USC is ALL that matter. :)</p>
<p>^^ Agreed! But, I thought all the UC campuses are suffering major budget crisis?! Hence the online courses and other drastic measures are proposed to save cost?
<a href=“http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/7/19/online-program-proposed/[/url]”>http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/7/19/online-program-proposed/</a>
p.s. I respect UCB & UCLA in terms of academics!! lol</p>
<p>Your statement proves that there will always be apologists in America, just in the South.</p>
<p>@Saiyans Im sure your research rectangle or what ever is great…but if you want real cities…[Northeast</a> Corridor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Corridor]Northeast”>Northeast Corridor - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Rice as a weird name? Isn’t Rice a reasonably common last name?</p>
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Well, it is also a food. Rice and Colgate are two of the stranger college names, because they make me think of a delicious food and toothpaste respectively.</p>
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<p>Well, it’s no more odd than Brown, which is not only a common last name but also a basic color. There’s no such school as “Green University” or “Blue University”.</p>
<p>Ball State tops them all I think.</p>
<p>ah, CC’s wonderful ability to derail threads in action. also, our utter incapability of coming up with new topics ;)</p>
<p>Ahhh if you were asian and were going to Rice, you would get so much crap for that. Maybe if you were african american and going to Brown too.</p>