<p>Yeah, facts are often conveniently ignored.</p>
<p>For business, I would go with SMU.</p>
<p>It has great placement in Texas, and the jobs nowadays are in Texas.</p>
<p>My son will be applying to Emory too, but does not want to spend two years at Oxford of Emory. If not for having to go to Oxford at Emory, I might go with Emory, but two years is a long time to essentially be playing on the AAA team rather than the major league team.
It would seem to me that when you do actually go to the real Emory, you will feel like a transfer student.</p>
<p>Tulane is good too, but for business, I would go with SMU.</p>
<p>My son will be applying to Tulane as well.</p>
<p>And as an added bonus for SMU, the girls are beautiful, and so is the campus.</p>
<p>Tulane is a significantly better university than SMU. That shouldn’t even be debatable. Look at their admissions stats, job placement, historical rankings, etc. Tulane is highly underrated right now in US News due to grad rates still being heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina. This thread is almost insulting, as SMU is one of those mediocre, subpar private universities for mongoloid rich kids who aren’t very intelligent yet consider themselves too good for public universities.</p>
<p>SMU admissions stats:
53% acceptance rate
42% top 10% of high school class
1700 - 2000 SAT range
25 - 30 ACT range</p>
<p>Tulane admissions stats:
26% acceptance rate
60% Top 10% of high school class
1900 - 2100 SAT
29 - 32 ACT</p>
<p>Not to mention that Tulane was ranked in the 30s and then low 40s prior to the hurricane, while SMU might be at an all time high while ranked 56. These two shouldn’t even be considered peer institutions based purely on numbers.</p>
<p>Why do I get the feeling that the unemployed or under-employed graduates of some schools obsess over the rankings of their very expensive almae matres? Is it buyers remorse?</p>
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<p>And Tulane rises to the top 50 once again, while SMU falls all the way to 62…</p>
<p>Tulane’s in a bad area? Yeah, if you ignore the gated communities boasting multimillion dollar homes that surround its certainly beautiful campus…</p>
<p>This thread is hilarious.</p>
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<p>Tulane has been doing this for about a decade now, and its acceptance rate has only been dropping in recent memory. It was designed to attract the “smarter” students, and considering this year’s freshman class boasted the highest stats in school history, I’d say it’s working. What a great time to be a Tulanian.</p>