SMU? Really?

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Anonymous wrote:Several kids from our Bethesda k-8 ended up going to SMU. I do find it odd considering there are lots of closer schools that are just as good.

Clearly, you do not understand the appeal of SMU and of Dallas, Texas. Wake Forest students are most similar to SMU students, but Dallas is a far better city than Winston Salem.

This is a stretch, there is a significant difference between the stats of kids at these two schools.

Auburn, FSU and TCU are good comparisons to SMU.

Yet, they are overlap schools (many who apply to SMU also apply to WFU & vice-versa).

Kids who are denied at Wake may go to SMU, just as kids who are denied at Duke or Vandy, may go to Wake. That doesn’t make them peer schools.

My understanding is that this thread is not about peer schools; it is about similar students and similar campus cultures. The original post in this thread, however, is unclear and presented in a poor fashion.

Continuing: Sorry, I have conflated two different threads. I thought that this was the "college comparisons" thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Several kids from our Bethesda k-8 ended up going to SMU. I do find it odd considering there are lots of closer schools that are just as good.

Clearly, you do not understand the appeal of SMU and of Dallas, Texas. Wake Forest students are most similar to SMU students, but Dallas is a far better city than Winston Salem.

This is a stretch, there is a significant difference between the stats of kids at these two schools.

Auburn, FSU and TCU are good comparisons to SMU.

Yet, they are overlap schools (many who apply to SMU also apply to WFU & vice-versa).

Kids who are denied at Wake may go to SMU, just as kids who are denied at Duke or Vandy, may go to Wake. That doesn’t make them peer schools.

My understanding is that this thread is not about peer schools; it is about similar students and similar campus cultures. The original post in this thread, however, is unclear and presented in a poor fashion.

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Go to the other thread talking about peer schools if you want to talk about peer schools. This thread is about culture and students and vibe.

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I'd rather live in Lexington than Dallas. It is a horrible place and there's no incentive to living there. Very little opportunity but massive amounts of misery. Many are stuck there, because the government has forced them through Jim Crow and $7 minimum wage.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world is SMU? Sounds like a community college. I'd be nervous OP.

You’re ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world is SMU? Sounds like a community college. I'd be nervous OP.

Oh gosh, PP. Thanks for the laugh. Look up notable alumni ...

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world is SMU? Sounds like a community college. I'd be nervous OP.

Oh gosh, PP. Thanks for the laugh. Look up notable alumni ...

Laura bush? So evil people are made from this college.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world is SMU? Sounds like a community college. I'd be nervous OP.

Oh gosh, PP. Thanks for the laugh. Look up notable alumni ...

Laura bush? So evil people are made from this college.

Stop being a total A$$. Alum include a Nobel-prize winning physicist, Academy Award Winners, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many, many CEOs and/or chairs of Fortune 500 companies.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world is SMU? Sounds like a community college. I'd be nervous OP.

Oh gosh, PP. Thanks for the laugh. Look up notable alumni ...

Laura bush? So evil people are made from this college.

Stop being a total A$$. Alum include a Nobel-prize winning physicist, Academy Award Winners, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many, many CEOs and/or chairs of Fortune 500 companies.

To be fair, these aren't mutually exclusive ideas. They could begraduating evil CEOs, Nobel physicists, and academy winners.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the world is SMU? Sounds like a community college. I'd be nervous OP.

Oh gosh, PP. Thanks for the laugh. Look up notable alumni ...

Laura bush? So evil people are made from this college.

Stop being a total A$$. Alum include a Nobel-prize winning physicist, Academy Award Winners, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many, many CEOs and/or chairs of Fortune 500 companies.

To be fair, these aren't mutually exclusive ideas. They could begraduating evil CEOs, Nobel physicists, and academy winners.

So could (insert your pet school). Or maybe your pet school is just graduating evil losers who don't become CEOs or Nobel winners.

The fact is that SMU is a fantastic school with foyine girls, amazing Greek life and the potential to make a lot of money. Just because it represents everything the usual suspects on the board hate -- attractive student body, social hierarchy dominated by frat gods, F B's make money mindset) doesn't mean it isn't an amazing place to go to college if you can get in.

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

He sounds like he is panicking. Have him wait until regular decision and maybe add a few more schools on to his list.

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

He sounds like he is panicking. Have him wait until regular decision and maybe add a few more schools on to his list.

No he doesn't. Not according to OP at least. Maybe he just likes SMU. Why does everyone here have to prestige push everything?

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

He sounds like he is panicking. Have him wait until regular decision and maybe add a few more schools on to his list.

No he doesn't. Not according to OP at least. Maybe he just likes SMU. Why does everyone here have to prestige push everything?

He may really like SMU, but I would wait far longer than 48 hours after Dartmouth rejection before acting on it.

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Most of TX is horrible. SMU is for frat bros. Have him go elsewhere

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Anonymous wrote:Most of TX is horrible. SMU is for frat bros. Have him go elsewhere

God, these idiotic posts are tiresome.

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Anonymous wrote:After not getting into ED Dartmouth, DS is thinking of applying (and likely committing) to SMU. Last year, while going on college tours, DS definitely loved the campus most, but me and DH are very concerned about job prospects of going to a non-elite school like SMU. DS definitely fits the student body profile, I have to admit. But there's something about this choice that is very disappointing.

Do you realize that SMU is one of the top 25 undergrad feeders into investment banking?

https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools