College comparisons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard:Yale
MIT:CalTech
Emory:WashU in St. Louis
Stanfordrinceton
Penn:Cornell
Georgetown:Notre Dame
UFL:UGA
UNC:UVA
BU:NEU
Dartmouth:Vanderbilt
NYU:USC
UCLA:Cal
Michigan:UT Austin
BC:Villanova
Purdue:Georgia Tech
Brown:Wesleyan
Williams:Amherst
Swarthmore:Haverford
Dennison:Hamilton
Oberlin:Grinnell
Va Tech:Texas A&M
Bowdoin:Colby
Bates:Trinity
Harvey Mudd:Carnegie Mellon
Pomona:Rice
Tulane:UMiami
GWU:Syracuse
Holy Cross:Lafayette
Lehigh:WPI
RPI:RIT
LMU:Santa Clara
USDepperdine
William & Mary:
American:

William and Mary doesn't have an easy twin because no other state has such a hybrid school...a public school crossed with a SLAC. It might be something like Cal Poly SLO...but different focus

You think there’s no other public lacs? There’s more than a handful

[Anonymous]

william & Mary: wake forest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard:Yale
MIT:CalTech
Emory:WashU in St. Louis
Stanfordrinceton
Penn:Cornell
Georgetown:Notre Dame
UFL:UGA
UNC:UVA
BU:NEU
Dartmouth:Vanderbilt
NYU:USC
UCLA:Cal
Michigan:UT Austin
BC:Villanova
Purdue:Georgia Tech
Brown:Wesleyan
Williams:Amherst
Swarthmore:Haverford
Dennison:Hamilton
Oberlin:Grinnell
Va Tech:Texas A&M
Bowdoin:Colby
Bates:Trinity
Harvey Mudd:Carnegie Mellon
Pomona:Rice
Tulane:UMiami
GWU:Syracuse
Holy Cross:Lafayette
Lehigh:WPI
RPI:RIT
LMU:Santa Clara
USDepperdine
William & Mary:
American:

William and Mary doesn't have an easy twin because no other state has such a hybrid school...a public school crossed with a SLAC. It might be something like Cal Poly SLO...but different focus

Agree with a PP, Denison and Hamilton are not equivalent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard:Yale
MIT:CalTech
Emory:WashU in St. Louis
Stanfordrinceton
Penn:Cornell
Georgetown:Notre Dame
UFL:UGA
UNC:UVA
BU:NEU
Dartmouth:Vanderbilt
NYU:USC
UCLA:Cal
Michigan:UT Austin
BC:Villanova
Purdue:Georgia Tech
Brown:Wesleyan
Williams:Amherst
Swarthmore:Haverford
Dennison:Hamilton
Oberlin:Grinnell
Va Tech:Texas A&M
Bowdoin:Colby
Bates:Trinity
Harvey Mudd:Carnegie Mellon
Pomona:Rice
Tulane:UMiami
GWU:Syracuse
Holy Cross:Lafayette
Lehigh:WPI
RPI:RIT
LMU:Santa Clara
USDepperdine
William & Mary:
American:

William and Mary doesn't have an easy twin because no other state has such a hybrid school...a public school crossed with a SLAC. It might be something like Cal Poly SLO...but different focus

You think there’s no other public lacs? There’s more than a handful

Then what public school is like William & Mary's twin?

Mary Washington?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard:Yale
MIT:CalTech
Emory:WashU in St. Louis
Stanfordrinceton
Penn:Cornell
Georgetown:Notre Dame
UFL:UGA
UNC:UVA
BU:NEU
Dartmouth:Vanderbilt
NYU:USC
UCLA:Cal
Michigan:UT Austin
BC:Villanova
Purdue:Georgia Tech
Brown:Wesleyan
Williams:Amherst
Swarthmore:Haverford
Dennison:Hamilton
Oberlin:Grinnell
Va Tech:Texas A&M
Bowdoin:Colby
Bates:Trinity
Harvey Mudd:Carnegie Mellon
Pomona:Rice
Tulane:UMiami
GWU:Syracuse
Holy Cross:Lafayette
Lehigh:WPI
RPI:RIT
LMU:Santa Clara
USDepperdine
William & Mary:
American:

William and Mary doesn't have an easy twin because no other state has such a hybrid school...a public school crossed with a SLAC. It might be something like Cal Poly SLO...but different focus

You think there’s no other public lacs? There’s more than a handful

Then what public school is like William & Mary's twin?

Mary Washington?

W&M doesn't have any exact peers but WF, Brandeis, BC, etc. would be the closest matches. Liberal artsy universities.

[Anonymous]

14 pages of nutjobs and counting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:14 pages of nutjobs and counting.

Sorry if this thread upsets you, but by DCUM standards it has been one of the most non-confrontational, non-acrimonious ones found here. Too often people want to tear down a school, or a class of people, or an ideology. Maybe, just maybe, it is okay to put some of that aside once in a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emory: SMU

Where's Wisconsin?

OMG no, Emory is NOTHING like SMU. Nothing. At all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Be kind to Emory. Just doing its own thing down in Atlanta, occupying its own niche, away from the northeast corridor craziness. Same goes for Tulane. It occupies its own niche.

Tulane and Emory get more attention now because they are in the south. While they aren't academically elite like the northeast colleges they attract good enough students. The question is if it is worth it over the much cheaper state schools. Emory in particular has to compete with UGA for top Georgia students. That is pretty amazing considering how fast the trajectory of UGA has risen due to the Hope/Zell scholarship. So value conscious parents don't need to pay for an expensive private school where the outcomes won't differ.

There will always be some market for expensive, lower tier private schools just because some will want that experience. Since there are so few private schools like that in the south Tulane and Emory get a lot of attention.

Emory has been made up of mostly NE students for over 50 years now, you don't know what you're talking about. And Emory and Tulane aren't peers never will be. And it's not just because of US News even though that's part of it. Emorys peers are and always have been WashU, Vandy, Georgetown, ND, Rice and a few others. I can't figure out what some on this board have against Emory but, your children aren't getting into the school regardless.

+100, could never get in, but have so much to say about it. How did this even start?

What drugs are you on? With a 32 percent ED1 acceptance rate, lots of kids are getting in Emory who are very smart but not too top of the class, It isn’t nearly as hard to get into Emory as those schools you like to think of as its peers.

Right? There are approximately zero people attending Emory at the moment who also got into Vandy with the same merit/no merit but chose Emory over Vandy.

Probably Georgetown as well, unless the applicant is 110% pre-med

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have any comparisons for Davidson?

Davidson is probably the love child of a marriage of WF and W&M. More intellectual than WF, and not as fun. Davidson is approaching W&M level intellectualism, but is way more laid back and more fun (sports, the smart subset of lax bros)

[Anonymous]

What do we think about Washington and Lee : Dartmouth?

Try to get past the superficial (hot/cold, NE / Southern) and actually consider who goes to each and on-campus vibes and what their parents do for a living, etc.

I doubt there are tons of cross applicants BUT I suspect a fly on the wall would observe a lot of similarities between the two schools.

Drinking, isolation, wealthy, pre-professional bros come to mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: william & Mary: wake forest

I don't see it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have any comparisons for Davidson?

Davidson is probably the love child of a marriage of WF and W&M. More intellectual than WF, and not as fun. Davidson is approaching W&M level intellectualism, but is way more laid back and more fun (sports, the smart subset of lax bros)

This is very helpful! Thank you so much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

My kid went to Bowdoin and there were actually several kids who were deciding between it and Cornell although I think the vibe is totally different. Bowdoin’s vibe is more like Pomona / Middlebury / Colby
Cornell’s vibe is more like the love child of Penn and U Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about Ivy/LAC comparisons? I'd go:

Harvard : Williams
Yale : Amherst
Princeton : Pomona
Columbia : Swarthmore
Penn : Colgate
Dartmouth : Bucknell
Brown : Wesleyan
Cornell : Bowdoin

(Not sure about the last one. Had trouble finding a suitable analogue for Cornell.)

My kid went to Bowdoin and there were actually several kids who were deciding between it and Cornell although I think the vibe is totally different. Bowdoin’s vibe is more like Pomona / Middlebury / Colby
Cornell’s vibe is more like the love child of Penn and U Michigan.

Ha! Amazing! Love this