Is Tulane the Ivy League of the South?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve always though of Tulane as the Pitt of the South— actively using early admissions policies (ED vs rolling) and to buy students with substantial merit in order to manipulate USNWR rankings.

Of course Pitt is much stronger in STEM than Tulane.

idiot

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve always though of Tulane as the Pitt of the South— actively using early admissions policies (ED vs rolling) and to buy students with substantial merit in order to manipulate USNWR rankings.

Of course Pitt is much stronger in STEM than Tulane.

Is this post a joke? Pitt is a public school that is huge comparatively.

If you are looking at US News "manipulation" along with school size and type, Tulane would be closest to the Chicago of the South!

I group Northeastern, Tulane, and Miami together as none of them has ever been ranked higher than 30, they aggressively use early decision, no application fees, and other tricks to juke their stats. But they are also popular schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is way more prestigious, highly ranked, and difficult to get into than Tulane.

Tulane is where prep school kids go who can't get into anything better.

Facts.

No offense but Wake Forest is a good safety school. Tulane is not. Tulane is a much better school and much more competitive.

Wake Forest is not a safety school. You have no idea what you are talking about. Wake is ranked 29th, while Tulane is ranked 44th. Huge difference. Wake is in the range of Chapel Hill and Tufts. Tulane is in the range of Brandeis, Northeastern, and Cases Western. Based on our school's scattergram, Wake accepts numerous students with 3.7gpa and above, while Tulane accepts numerous students with 3.3gpa and above.

I’m sorry but Wake Forest is a good college but it is none of those things 👆and you know it.

No, practically there's no difference between #29 ranked schools like WF, UF, UNC and schools like BU, NU in the #40s in terms of perceived prestige.
BU and NU are regarded any less than WF if not regarded as more prestigious.
You can see it from the student stats and acceptance rate.    [/quote

Wait, you think BU and UNC Chapel Hill are perceived as equivalents? Not even close. There is a big decline in perceived prestige beyond the T30. The only exception I can think of is Georgia Tech which is not in T30 but has multiple engineering majors ranked in the T5.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is way more prestigious, highly ranked, and difficult to get into than Tulane.

Tulane is where prep school kids go who can't get into anything better.

Facts.

No offense but Wake Forest is a good safety school. Tulane is not. Tulane is a much better school and much more competitive.

Wake Forest is not a safety school. You have no idea what you are talking about. Wake is ranked 29th, while Tulane is ranked 44th. Huge difference. Wake is in the range of Chapel Hill and Tufts. Tulane is in the range of Brandeis, Northeastern, and Cases Western. Based on our school's scattergram, Wake accepts numerous students with 3.7gpa and above, while Tulane accepts numerous students with 3.3gpa and above.

I’m sorry but Wake Forest is a good college but it is none of those things 👆and you know it.

No, practically there's no difference between #29 ranked schools like WF, UF, UNC and schools like BU, NU in the #40s in terms of perceived prestige.
BU and NU are regarded any less than WF if not regarded as more prestigious.
You can see it from the student stats and acceptance rate.    [/quote

Wait, you think BU and UNC Chapel Hill are perceived as equivalents? Not even close. There is a big decline in perceived prestige beyond the T30. The only exception I can think of is Georgia Tech which is not in T30 but has multiple engineering majors ranked in the T5.

no T30 is really not a thing. T20/25ish then T50.

Majority would not think WF or UNC is more prestigious than BU or Northeastern.
In fact it's the opposite if anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is way more prestigious, highly ranked, and difficult to get into than Tulane.

Tulane is where prep school kids go who can't get into anything better.

Facts.

No offense but Wake Forest is a good safety school. Tulane is not. Tulane is a much better school and much more competitive.

Wake Forest is not a safety school. You have no idea what you are talking about. Wake is ranked 29th, while Tulane is ranked 44th. Huge difference. Wake is in the range of Chapel Hill and Tufts. Tulane is in the range of Brandeis, Northeastern, and Cases Western. Based on our school's scattergram, Wake accepts numerous students with 3.7gpa and above, while Tulane accepts numerous students with 3.3gpa and above.

I’m sorry but Wake Forest is a good college but it is none of those things 👆and you know it.

No, practically there's no difference between #29 ranked schools like WF, UF, UNC and schools like BU, NU in the #40s in terms of perceived prestige.
BU and NU are regarded any less than WF if not regarded as more prestigious.
You can see it from the student stats and acceptance rate.    [/quote

Wait, you think BU and UNC Chapel Hill are perceived as equivalents? Not even close. There is a big decline in perceived prestige beyond the T30. The only exception I can think of is Georgia Tech which is not in T30 but has multiple engineering majors ranked in the T5.

no T30 is really not a thing. T20/25ish then T50.

Majority would not think WF or UNC is more prestigious than BU or Northeastern.
In fact it's the opposite if anything.

Umm, I have some bad news for you.

[Anonymous]

I think it is odd to group schools based on their admissions offices. I guess it is impressive that they've developed ways to attract applicants and innovate but outside of that, they are barely a part of the university.

Tulane is a good example of a school whose "lay prestige" is better than its ranking, especially regionally.

Don't let USNWR skew your view too much either. You might start thinking Princeton is actually better than Stanford or Harvard or that Williams is clearly superior to Swarthmore and Amherst

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The only southern school that competes with and is even better than most of the ivies is Duke. Vanderbilt and Rice are getting better and probably are competing with “lower” ivies like Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Penn

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Anonymous wrote:The only southern school that competes with and is even better than most of the ivies is Duke. Vanderbilt and Rice are getting better and probably are competing with “lower” ivies like Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Penn

Love the "lower Ivy League" dig. Couldn't help yourself there when you could have just listed the schools you thought Vandy, Rice, and Duke (we should be honest there too) were competing with

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Anonymous wrote:The only southern school that competes with and is even better than most of the ivies is Duke. Vanderbilt and Rice are getting better and probably are competing with “lower” ivies like Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Penn

Penn isn't a lower Ivy shit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is odd to group schools based on their admissions offices. I guess it is impressive that they've developed ways to attract applicants and innovate but outside of that, they are barely a part of the university.

Tulane is a good example of a school whose "lay prestige" is better than its ranking, especially regionally.

Don't let USNWR skew your view too much either. You might start thinking Princeton is actually better than Stanford or Harvard or that Williams is clearly superior to Swarthmore and Amherst

I tend to view schools based on the types of kids they accept. At our private, I would say Tulane, Northeastern and Miami get the same group of kids, solid middle of the class.

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Anonymous wrote:How did this ignorant post make it to 6 pages?

+1
It is pretty funny, isn't it?

Yeah, and WTF is a "green wave" as a mascot. Tulane...some of the people on this board are seriously brain wave impaired.

WTF is the Harvard mascot? why does Stanford use an evergreen tree as it's mascot? you're pretty f"ing stupid, must have gone an SEC school.

Harvard is John Harvard the Pilgrim and Stanford doesn't officially have a mascot, they dropped their previous mascot " The Indians" in 1972. Which makes sense because Leland Stanford organized militias as Governor to kill Native Americans. The "Tree" is part of the band on not the mascot. You're pretty f"ing stupid, must have gone to Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:How did this ignorant post make it to 6 pages?

+1
It is pretty funny, isn't it?

Yeah, and WTF is a "green wave" as a mascot. Tulane...some of the people on this board are seriously brain wave impaired.

WTF is the Harvard mascot? why does Stanford use an evergreen tree as it's mascot? you're pretty f"ing stupid, must have gone an SEC school.

Harvard is John Harvard the Pilgrim and Stanford doesn't officially have a mascot, they dropped their previous mascot " The Indians" in 1972. Which makes sense because Leland Stanford organized militias as Governor to kill Native Americans. The "Tree" is part of the band on not the mascot. You're pretty f"ing stupid, must have gone to Tulane.

+1 LOL !

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Anonymous wrote:How did this ignorant post make it to 6 pages?

+1
It is pretty funny, isn't it?

Yeah, and WTF is a "green wave" as a mascot. Tulane...some of the people on this board are seriously brain wave impaired.

WTF is the Harvard mascot? why does Stanford use an evergreen tree as it's mascot? you're pretty f"ing stupid, must have gone an SEC school.

Harvard is John Harvard the Pilgrim and Stanford doesn't officially have a mascot, they dropped their previous mascot " The Indians" in 1972. Which makes sense because Leland Stanford organized militias as Governor to kill Native Americans. The "Tree" is part of the band on not the mascot. You're pretty f"ing stupid, must have gone to Tulane.

Rude comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Within this fictional Magnolia League...

(same order as an original list)
Tier 1: (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton equivalent)
-Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Georgetown, JHU

Tier 2Brown, Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth equivalent)
Davidson, Washington and Lee, U Richmond, W&M

They're all great schools!

Damn, finally a league where my Dores might win a few football games.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How did this ignorant post make it to 6 pages?

+1
It is pretty funny, isn't it?

Yeah, and WTF is a "green wave" as a mascot. Tulane...some of the people on this board are seriously brain wave impaired.

Or have bottom third of Sidwell kids at Tulane.

Is that a good or bad sign?
I thought the Big 3 only had amazing students. Tulane having multiple kids from Sidwell, which doesn't rank, would seem like a positive...
Heck, once the hooked Ivy and top SLAC kids are off the board and Chicago has taken a bunch ED2, there are not too many left!

If the bottom third is going to a school like Tulane it’s a tremendous sign that they’re doing something right at that school. However I seriously doubt that is the case. You can check the Sidwell website for their matriculation.

Actually you can't, because they don't publish it.