<p>I'm just curious..</p>
<p>Which schools -public or private- (do you think) are equal to/are on the same tier as William and Mary with regards to prestige, reputation, and education? </p>
<p>They DON'T have to be schools that are similar (small, intellectual, lib arts).</p>
<p>W + M is quite underrated IMO. I would say it can is comparable to Tufts and Wake and, to a lesser extent, Rice and Emory. They are all peer schools though.</p>
<p>I would say Holy Cross, Haverford, Boston College, University of Rochester, Vassar.</p>
<p>Haverford, Davidson, Amherst, Chicago, Rice, Brown, Dartmouth, Carleton, Claremont Mckenna, Tufts share many characteristics with W&M.</p>
<p>I recently did a market analysis of Rhodes cross admit competitors, and W&M is in a quality cluster with Tulane, Davidson, and Emory. Their cost for in-state students, though, is dramatically lower.</p>
<p>Colgate, Holy Cross, Davidson.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t put it with Rice. It’s a good school, but it is not the level of Rice (or Davidson).</p>
<p>. . .because it doesn’t</p>
<p>No because if you survey the student population at Williams and Mary and Harvard, you would find out that more students at Williams and Mary want to go to Harvard than vice versa</p>
<p>By that token, the University of Hawaii must be #1!</p>
<p>it was a joke lol. I forgot to add the smiley face</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson went to W&M and is on more currency than John Adams who went to Harvard, so the former is the better school.</p>
<p>Once again we get bogged down in this terminology of “better”. Usually people mean that the “better” school is more academically selective, but then that is what they should say. harvard is more academically selective that W&M, that is true. There are whole lists of things people could come up with that Harvard has or has more of than W&M, like Nobel Prize winners, and people will take that to mean it is better. That is not necessarily the case though. For a great many students, even those capable of getting into Harvard, W&M might well be a better school for them.</p>
<p>Now in this case the OP specifically said prestige, reputation, and education. I think it would be hard to argue that in today’s world (not Thomas Jefferson’s) Harvard is more prestigious and has a more reknowned reputation. Not even sure how those two are different. As far as education, frankly one can get an equally good education at both in terms of pure classroom experience, but at Harvard you will be surrounded by, on average, brighter students. Not a huge difference, since W&M is a very highly selective school also, but certainly Harvard is a “tier” higher in that regard as well.</p>
<p>So MrZapz, one doesn’t have to go to a school to know that Harvard is generally considered more prestigious and to look at the stats of the admitted students to see their level. W&M is a truly excellent school, but few can match Harvard for the 3 qualities mentioned by the OP.</p>
<p>Williams, Emory, Carleton, Rice, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Rice, Wake Forest, Davidson to name a few.</p>
<p>Tulane, TCU, Liberty</p>
<p>^^No, not Liberty. That is a joke. Its barely accredited.</p>
<p>Not TCU either. W&M average SAT for incoming freshmen a good 100 points higher. Tulane is virtually identical to W&M in that regard.</p>
<p>lol at the suggestion for Liberty</p>
<p>maybe if they still had Seth Curry</p>
<p>^^ Maybe s/he’s a ultra-conservative. I was actually f-ing around. I didn’t realized Liberty is so (in)famous.</p>