Easiest Brand Name College/University to Get Into?

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Anonymous wrote:DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring.

I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition.

The only schools, in theory, a liberal arts major would turn UVa down for would be HYP.

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Anonymous wrote:Barnard College

It's Columbia for women who...couldn't get into Columbia.

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Huh. I've only read the first page of this thread and I don't think of any of these school as "brand name." I'm thinking more Vanderbilt, Emory, Bates, Bucknell.

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Anonymous wrote:Ole Miss.

I suppose that's brand name, in a "Lowreys Microwave Pork Rinds" kind of way.

Or if you're from Texas.

Proud Ole Miss grad here. Y'all would hate it. Seriously. Please don't send your kids to any southern schools. You are much too good for the south. Just leave us backward-ass rednecks to our miserable lives in the south. I promise, you won't like anything about living down south.We'll somehow manage without you.

/HOTTY TODDY!

Okay. And you keep your confederate flag waving, pick up truck driving, gun toting spawn out of the DC metro area. Deal?

We'll keep the rednecks and you keep the douchebags... deal?

Zing!

We did a tour of schools in the Deep South this spring not knowing what we'd find or how we'd react, having spent most of our lives in the NYC to DC axis.

Schools were beautiful and people were incredibly friendly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring.

I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition.

The only schools, in theory, a liberal arts major would turn UVa down for would be HYP.

This is so not true.

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Duke and Vanderbilt have been able to separate themselves from the other Southern Ivies (Rice, SMU, Tulane, Baylor) in recent years largely by attracting students from this area and NYC. The other Southern Ivies have woken up and are moving up the rankings. If you want a degree that will appreciate over time, those four schools are a good bet.

Not sure how the list of Southern Ivies was developed, but I am not sure that Baylor should be in that listing. I think Wake Forest, W&L, Richmond and Sewanee are much more suitable for a list of Southern Ivies than is Baylor and maybe even SMU. I agree with the prior comment that Tulane, in particular, has really improved its standing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ivy

The list of Southern Ivies had something to do with a proposed football conference.

The Ivy League is also related to an athletic conference, but Southern Ivy, like the northeastern Ivy League, refers to academic quality or in social prestige.

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Anonymous wrote:DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring.

I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition.

The only schools, in theory, a liberal arts major would turn UVa down for would be HYP.

This is so not true.

+1. My DD turned down a fantastic state option because it didn't offer her planned major.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Brandeis. It might be the private school whose academic strengths most exceed what one would expect them to be based on its acceptance rate (high 30's% I think). They just get fewer applicants.

I grew up in New England and it was always considered a very good school academically but not very diverse because it was mostly Jewish.

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Brandeis. It might be the private school whose academic strengths most exceed what one would expect them to be based on its acceptance rate (high 30's% I think). They just get fewer applicants.

I grew up in New England and it was always considered a very good school academically but not very diverse because it was mostly Jewish.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Look at Brandeis. It might be the private school whose academic strengths most exceed what one would expect them to be based on its acceptance rate (high 30's% I think). They just get fewer applicants.

I grew up in New England and it was always considered a very good school academically but not very diverse because it was mostly Jewish.

Interesting. One of my son's Jewish friends is going there now. He was solid, but not really exceptional, academically, so it came as a surprise that he was heading off to Brandeis. I'd always thought Brandeis was more selective than it apparently really is.

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Brandeis is selective in that it mostly takes A/B students who took reasonably difficult classes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring.

I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition.

The only schools, in theory, a liberal arts major would turn UVa down for would be HYP.

I could make a case for UChicago, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Stanford and a few others. UVA is a damn good school, don't get me wrong. There are just many other learning environments that are better for any individual student.

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Anonymous wrote:DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring.

I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition.

The only schools, in theory, a liberal arts major would turn UVa down for would be HYP.

I could make a case for UChicago, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Stanford and a few others. UVA is a damn good school, don't get me wrong. There are just many other learning environments that are better for any individual student.

Agree with this. U. Va. was my fifth choice behind an Ivy, Duke and the Little Three. The over-the-top party atmosphere there didn't really appeal to me. My best friend turned down U. Va. for Northwestern, and two of our three HS valedictorians turned down U. Va. for Amherst and Oberlin.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD has a friend accepted at Princeton (et. al.) but who will be enrolling at UVA. Parents and student are both excited. It's not always about the brass ring.

I knew a high school senior who turned down Brown for U.Va last year after attending a program for admitted students and finding that he just didn't click with the other students admitted to Brown. But turning down Princeton for U.Va. strikes me as odd. Hopefully the parents will save some money on tuition.

The only schools, in theory, a liberal arts major would turn UVa down for would be HYP.

This is so not true.

yeah but funny...

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