Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine

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Anonymous wrote:Miami is a much bigger football school than the other two. If that matters.

One doesnt even have Football….They are all completely different environments. The only thing they have in common is that they are all expensive Privates in the T50 to T80 range and the avg kid there is wealthy….

Bingo. With all of that said, I would prefer to live in Malibu and be close to LA then in the craziness of Miami or New Orleans.

I live near Pepperdine and it is a very special place to spend time. The college itself is evangelical so not for everyone, but Malibu is magical. My own Senior wants to go to Tulane. In the end, kids just want something different. College is the perfect time to experience that.

Absolutely. nothing wrong with that . Tulane is an amazing school. We are the opposite. We live in the New Orleans area and despite getting in Tulane she wanted to go away. So Pepperdine it was. We are Jewish and we were so worried about the Christian indoctrination environment. But she is now in her 2nd year spending the year abroad and she is as happy as she can be. She had an amazing experience in her 1st year and despite all of the criticism we heard on this board, she fit in nicely, made amazing friends, joined a sorority and nobody has made her feel unwanted or excluded because she is Jewish.

Can I ask you about Tulane? Applying as a Jewish Studies major....ED.
Thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe that eliminating Class Size and % of faculty with Terminal degrees in favor of % of Pell Grant recipients and # of 1st gen students translates to a better ranking.

Completely ludicrous.

What does this mean in english please?

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Anonymous wrote:Miami is a much bigger football school than the other two. If that matters.

One doesnt even have Football….They are all completely different environments. The only thing they have in common is that they are all expensive Privates in the T50 to T80 range and the avg kid there is wealthy….

Bingo. With all of that said, I would prefer to live in Malibu and be close to LA then in the craziness of Miami or New Orleans.

I live near Pepperdine and it is a very special place to spend time. The college itself is evangelical so not for everyone, but Malibu is magical. My own Senior wants to go to Tulane. In the end, kids just want something different. College is the perfect time to experience that.

Absolutely. nothing wrong with that . Tulane is an amazing school. We are the opposite. We live in the New Orleans area and despite getting in Tulane she wanted to go away. So Pepperdine it was. We are Jewish and we were so worried about the Christian indoctrination environment. But she is now in her 2nd year spending the year abroad and she is as happy as she can be. She had an amazing experience in her 1st year and despite all of the criticism we heard on this board, she fit in nicely, made amazing friends, joined a sorority and nobody has made her feel unwanted or excluded because she is Jewish.

Can I ask you about Tulane? Applying as a Jewish Studies major....ED.
Thoughts?

Tulane is an amazing school. We live nearby and my husband went to Tulane. Several family members are Tulane grads. We are a big Jewish family and Tulane is the closest thing you have to a Jewish university in the south. New Orleans is a liberal city in a conservative state.

Don’t pay attention to rankings over last 2 years. Changes in methodology affected schools like Tulane and Pepperdine harder than others.
The only thing is why Jewish Studies at Tulane? I don’t get me wrong, you will fit right in….But this is the reason DD didnt want to apply to Tulane…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe that eliminating Class Size and % of faculty with Terminal degrees in favor of % of Pell Grant recipients and # of 1st gen students translates to a better ranking.

Completely ludicrous.

What does this mean in english please?

I think the PP meant to say that USNWR believes their ranking format is better now despite removing variables from the equation that intuitively makes a lot sense (like Class Size and % of professors with Phds) and adding others (or at least increasing the weight) that a lot of people do not perceive as making a university a better educational institution (% of Pell Grant Recipients and % of students that are 1st generation)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Miami is a much bigger football school than the other two. If that matters.

One doesnt even have Football….They are all completely different environments. The only thing they have in common is that they are all expensive Privates in the T50 to T80 range and the avg kid there is wealthy….

Bingo. With all of that said, I would prefer to live in Malibu and be close to LA then in the craziness of Miami or New Orleans.

I live near Pepperdine and it is a very special place to spend time. The college itself is evangelical so not for everyone, but Malibu is magical. My own Senior wants to go to Tulane. In the end, kids just want something different. College is the perfect time to experience that.

Absolutely. nothing wrong with that . Tulane is an amazing school. We are the opposite. We live in the New Orleans area and despite getting in Tulane she wanted to go away. So Pepperdine it was. We are Jewish and we were so worried about the Christian indoctrination environment. But she is now in her 2nd year spending the year abroad and she is as happy as she can be. She had an amazing experience in her 1st year and despite all of the criticism we heard on this board, she fit in nicely, made amazing friends, joined a sorority and nobody has made her feel unwanted or excluded because she is Jewish.

Can I ask you about Tulane? Applying as a Jewish Studies major....ED.
Thoughts?

Tulane is an amazing school. We live nearby and my husband went to Tulane. Several family members are Tulane grads. We are a big Jewish family and Tulane is the closest thing you have to a Jewish university in the south. New Orleans is a liberal city in a conservative state.

Don’t pay attention to rankings over last 2 years. Changes in methodology affected schools like Tulane and Pepperdine harder than others.
The only thing is why Jewish Studies at Tulane? I don’t get me wrong, you will fit right in….But this is the reason DD didnt want to apply to Tulane…

Maybe bc of the Grant center, to study Jewish American life experiences ?

https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/american-jewish-experience

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Anonymous wrote:I meant that I wish DD just picked Miami. I’m not sure how I feel about Pepperdine’s Christian environment.

There is nothing wrong with the environment. Quite frankly as a mother I would feel much better about my daughter being in a small school in Malibu vs the crazy environment of the City of Miami.

Quite frankly you’re an idiot mother who has no clue what you’re talking about. The University of Miami is not in the City of Miami, it’s in the City of Coral Gables, one of the most affluent suburbs in the southeastern U.S.

You are the idiot. You act like there is a gate between coral gables and the greater Miami. Don’t be a fool…do you think you precious little daughter will stay within the confines of Coral gables? You are the only idiot here.

Stay away from Miami. You and your sheltered kid don’t have the social skills to attend.

My daughter is at Miami Moron. I’m telling the other idiot that the Coral Gables address wont stop you from partying in Miami. Please….too many idiots around here.

I'm a Miami native born in the City of Coral Gables and proud Cane c/o 1996. Miami is a complex, vibrant, lively city with a thriving arts and music and food and LIFE scene. Stop hating, and get a life. Not nice.

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When is the Pepperdine mountain going to be ready?

We toured it and DD loved the atmosphere.

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They claim the Mountain will be ready for the start of the incoming 2026 fall class.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that USNWR puts Pepperdine at 39 for Undergraduate Teaching and yes, class size and terminal faculty degrees which positive correlates to undergraduate teaching are now excluded variables on the rankings.

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I know Pepperdine and Miami are on the coasts, but even Tulane has a surf club now:

https://tulanehullabaloo.com/70819/sports/tulanes-lesser-known-green-wave-tulane-surf-club/

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Anonymous wrote:DD will be a Junior. She has been interested in all 3 schools mentioned here for a long time because several members of our family have attended all 3 universities. 10 of us to be exact (3 Pepperdine, 3 Tulane and 4 Miami).

It if funny that between us (we are all between 30 and 45) we have always thought of our Tulane relatives as the ones with the better ranked school/pedigree….then Pepperdine and last Miami. Even our Miami family members thought so….

We were having fun the other day looking at recent rankings and the effect that changes (specifically with USNWR) over the last 2 years have copjmeltely turned around the rankings of these 3…. Miami way ahead of Tulane and then Pepperdine.
2021 - Tulane 42, Pepperdine 49, Miami not top 50
2022 - Tulane 41, Pepperdine 49, Miami not top 50

Jump to 2025: Miami 63, Tulane 63, Pepperdine 80

Wow…Yes I know methodology changed….but that is quite a manufactured change…..

DD applied to all 3 plus a bunch more. She got in all 3 and after touring she decided on Pepperdine. They had the best Merit Aid and quite frankly the setting is just ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe that eliminating Class Size and % of faculty with Terminal degrees in favor of % of Pell Grant recipients and # of 1st gen students translates to a better ranking.

Completely ludicrous.

What does this mean in english please?

I think the PP meant to say that USNWR believes their ranking format is better now despite removing variables from the equation that intuitively makes a lot sense (like Class Size and % of professors with Phds) and adding others (or at least increasing the weight) that a lot of people do not perceive as making a university a better educational institution (% of Pell Grant Recipients and % of students that are 1st generation)

I agree with PP. Removing class size and terminal degrees in favor of Pell grants recipients is absolutely ridiculous…this is why State schools jumped in the rankings and smaller privates dropped.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that USNWR puts Pepperdine at 39 for Undergraduate Teaching and yes, class size and terminal faculty degrees which positive correlates to undergraduate teaching are now excluded variables on the rankings.

No dog in this fight, but this is the dumbest thing USNWR could have done.

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Just because these schools are not T50 doesn't mean they aren't good. There are over 4,000 colleges in the US. Not every one can be in the T50.

Prestige rankings chasing doesn't need to happen.

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I don’t think anybody on this thread disagrees with you. They all have their strengths.

We have 4 kids. Last one applying this year.

My first 3 went to Miami, Pepperdine and UCSB.

Despite their rankings , my USCB kid is the one “underemployed”. Both Miami and Pepperdine kids had great opportunities through tight alumni networks. UCSB kid is now looking to go back to grad school