Is Tulane the Ivy League of the South?

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Have kids at Tulane and Emory. Virtually same school, though Emory plays games with its Oxford numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:Have kids at Tulane and Emory. Virtually same school, though Emory plays games with its Oxford numbers.

Both excellent schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane has a great regional reputation in the south. It isn't ranked on the same level but I think of it as being similar to how Tufts is in the NE. Both are strong regionally and with solid national name recognition. On pure name recognition and prestige, Tulane is probably stronger within its region than Tufts and equal nationally.

No. Tufts is a very serious academic institution. Tulane is not Having similar acceptance rates or rankings in US news doesn’t change the fact

No affiliation with Tufts, but it draws the most serious and nerdy student

No doubt Tufts is objectively more selective but I don't think it is perceived as "better" in most of the country. Tulane has strong name recognition. There are not any Grisham books involving Tufts, are there?

Are you kidding?? I don’t have a kid at either but know both schools well and currently know many kids at both. Tufts is by far the better school with smarter, more serious and truly academic students. Tulane is a party school with smart enough kids who didn’t chose their college for academics reasons. Tufts is also better known and more highly regarded in professional circles. No comparison.

Tufts is a great school, but you are clearly not informed about Tulane's academics and its standing in professional circles. It's far more than a party school for rich kids.

NP, but I, too, had the image of Tulane students being less academically focused. I think of Enory and Tufts as akin. So I checked: Tufts’s admitted student profile for 2021 shows a mid 50% range for SAT of 1490-1540 (Emory’s is identical), vs Tulane’s mid 50% range was 1410-1500. I still think that Tufts attracts the more serious student, but Tulane has plenty of smart kids, too.

Emory is better than Tufts and Tulane. Emorys peers are Georgetown ,Notre Dame, WashU etc.

Emery and Georgetown or not comparable. Give me a break. Emery is it fine school but it’s not in the same league as Georgetown.

It's Emory with an O. And you're delusional. Emory is better at some things while Georgetown is better at others. Regardless Tulane and Tufts aren't the same level and frankly Tufts is better than Tulane.

I don't know much about Tufts so I'll stay out of the Tulane v Tufts discussion you are likely having with yourself. BUT Emory is not even comparable to Georgetown. No offense to Enory but Georgetown is just that good, that selective, and yes, better.

Np and I agree with you, Georgetown is superior to Emory (and to Tulane and to Tufts), and it makes me think the poster has a blind adoration for Emory to say otherwise. I will also add that I think that Tufts and Emory are on par and have an extremely similar student body, although again no convincing the President of the Emory Fan Club.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane has a great regional reputation in the south. It isn't ranked on the same level but I think of it as being similar to how Tufts is in the NE. Both are strong regionally and with solid national name recognition. On pure name recognition and prestige, Tulane is probably stronger within its region than Tufts and equal nationally.

No. Tufts is a very serious academic institution. Tulane is not Having similar acceptance rates or rankings in US news doesn’t change the fact

No affiliation with Tufts, but it draws the most serious and nerdy student

No doubt Tufts is objectively more selective but I don't think it is perceived as "better" in most of the country. Tulane has strong name recognition. There are not any Grisham books involving Tufts, are there?

Are you kidding?? I don’t have a kid at either but know both schools well and currently know many kids at both. Tufts is by far the better school with smarter, more serious and truly academic students. Tulane is a party school with smart enough kids who didn’t chose their college for academics reasons. Tufts is also better known and more highly regarded in professional circles. No comparison.

Tufts is a great school, but you are clearly not informed about Tulane's academics and its standing in professional circles. It's far more than a party school for rich kids.

NP, but I, too, had the image of Tulane students being less academically focused. I think of Enory and Tufts as akin. So I checked: Tufts’s admitted student profile for 2021 shows a mid 50% range for SAT of 1490-1540 (Emory’s is identical), vs Tulane’s mid 50% range was 1410-1500. I still think that Tufts attracts the more serious student, but Tulane has plenty of smart kids, too.

Emory is better than Tufts and Tulane. Emorys peers are Georgetown ,Notre Dame, WashU etc.

Emery and Georgetown or not comparable. Give me a break. Emery is it fine school but it’s not in the same league as Georgetown.

It's Emory with an O. And you're delusional. Emory is better at some things while Georgetown is better at others. Regardless Tulane and Tufts aren't the same level and frankly Tufts is better than Tulane.

I don't know much about Tufts so I'll stay out of the Tulane v Tufts discussion you are likely having with yourself. BUT Emory is not even comparable to Georgetown. No offense to Enory but Georgetown is just that good, that selective, and yes, better.

Np and I agree with you, Georgetown is superior to Emory (and to Tulane and to Tufts), and it makes me think the poster has a blind adoration for Emory to say otherwise. I will also add that I think that Tufts and Emory are on par and have an extremely similar student body, although again no convincing the President of the Emory Fan Club.

We appreciate the blind adoration for Georgetown that you and the pp share.

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Tulane simply not prestigious

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This is all anecdotal (as is most of the info on this thread), but here is what I see as the difference between the students applying and being admitted to Tulane versus Emory (or Georgetown, or Tufts) - all of the applicants to these schools are awesome and well rounded and smart, but while the Tulane applicants have strong classes and GPAs, they did not kill themselves taking “the” highest level of every class (e.g., maybe they didn’t take AP language, or they took AP stat instead of AP calculus, or if they did take an AP in hard science, it was envt’l science) - versus the applicants to the other colleges are the kids who took basically the hardest level in everything. So basically the Tulane applicants are smarter because they enjoyed themselves in Hs more or at least experienced less academic stress

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Anonymous wrote:Probs the only thing you ever banged.

LOL, hope your kid is rocking it out at Northeastern and banging all the Boston peeps they can! Maybe some of the Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, and Tufts will rub off on them and they'll get that "I attended school in Boston" trophy!

Harvard isn't even in Boston.

Only Northeastern and Boston University are in Boston.

Lesser known fact: Stanford is not in Palo Alto (it is in Stanford, CA)

Even lesser known fact, Stanford used to be a Junior College but now it is a Junior University.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane has a great regional reputation in the south. It isn't ranked on the same level but I think of it as being similar to how Tufts is in the NE. Both are strong regionally and with solid national name recognition. On pure name recognition and prestige, Tulane is probably stronger within its region than Tufts and equal nationally.

No. Tufts is a very serious academic institution. Tulane is not Having similar acceptance rates or rankings in US news doesn’t change the fact

No affiliation with Tufts, but it draws the most serious and nerdy student

No doubt Tufts is objectively more selective but I don't think it is perceived as "better" in most of the country. Tulane has strong name recognition. There are not any Grisham books involving Tufts, are there?

Are you kidding?? I don’t have a kid at either but know both schools well and currently know many kids at both. Tufts is by far the better school with smarter, more serious and truly academic students. Tulane is a party school with smart enough kids who didn’t chose their college for academics reasons. Tufts is also better known and more highly regarded in professional circles. No comparison.

Tufts is a great school, but you are clearly not informed about Tulane's academics and its standing in professional circles. It's far more than a party school for rich kids.

NP, but I, too, had the image of Tulane students being less academically focused. I think of Enory and Tufts as akin. So I checked: Tufts’s admitted student profile for 2021 shows a mid 50% range for SAT of 1490-1540 (Emory’s is identical), vs Tulane’s mid 50% range was 1410-1500. I still think that Tufts attracts the more serious student, but Tulane has plenty of smart kids, too.

Emory is better than Tufts and Tulane. Emorys peers are Georgetown ,Notre Dame, WashU etc.

Emery and Georgetown or not comparable. Give me a break. Emery is it fine school but it’s not in the same league as Georgetown.

It's Emory with an O. And you're delusional. Emory is better at some things while Georgetown is better at others. Regardless Tulane and Tufts aren't the same level and frankly Tufts is better than Tulane.

I don't know much about Tufts so I'll stay out of the Tulane v Tufts discussion you are likely having with yourself. BUT Emory is not even comparable to Georgetown. No offense to Enory but Georgetown is just that good, that selective, and yes, better.

Np and I agree with you, Georgetown is superior to Emory (and to Tulane and to Tufts), and it makes me think the poster has a blind adoration for Emory to say otherwise. I will also add that I think that Tufts and Emory are on par and have an extremely similar student body, although again no convincing the President of the Emory Fan Club.

I see the Georgetown boosters are out in full force. I’m a NP. In what way is Georgetown superior to Emory? Other than perhaps in international relations and the Catholic draw if you are Catholic, I don’t see it. Facilities and campus are much nicer and updated at Emory and the endowment is almost 4x more than Georgetown. I’d say they are at least comparable (as does USNEWS) and Emory clearly has the edge on pre-med/hard sciences.

As for Tulane, I like PPs description above about it drawing the work “smart” students who take APs and do well, but don’t necessarily take the hardest APs across the board. Sounds like an appealing environment to me!

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Anonymous wrote:Probs the only thing you ever banged.

LOL, hope your kid is rocking it out at Northeastern and banging all the Boston peeps they can! Maybe some of the Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, and Tufts will rub off on them and they'll get that "I attended school in Boston" trophy!

Harvard isn't even in Boston.

Only Northeastern and Boston University are in Boston.

Lesser known fact: Stanford is not in Palo Alto (it is in Stanford, CA)

Even lesser known fact, Stanford used to be a Junior College but now it is a Junior University.

Look it up. Leland Stanford Junior College.

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Anonymous wrote:This is all anecdotal (as is most of the info on this thread), but here is what I see as the difference between the students applying and being admitted to Tulane versus Emory (or Georgetown, or Tufts) - all of the applicants to these schools are awesome and well rounded and smart, but while the Tulane applicants have strong classes and GPAs, they did not kill themselves taking “the” highest level of every class (e.g., maybe they didn’t take AP language, or they took AP stat instead of AP calculus, or if they did take an AP in hard science, it was envt’l science) - versus the applicants to the other colleges are the kids who took basically the hardest level in everything. So basically the Tulane applicants are smarter because they enjoyed themselves in Hs more or at least experienced less academic stress

Probably explains why most of the Tulane grads I see around aren't that successful

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane simply not prestigious

Tulane is excellent school but I agree, would not consider prestigious, where I would include Emory, Rice, Boston College, Georgetown, etc in that category. But who really cares?? If your kid goes to Tulane, like it and is successful then the sky’s the limit!! That is what matters. Not if some 50 year old thinks it reaches the level of prestigious.

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Tulane is excellent school but I agree, would not consider prestigious, where I would include Emory, Rice, Boston College, Georgetown, etc in that category. But who really cares?? If your kid goes to Tulane, like it and is successful then the sky’s the limit!! That is what matters. Not if some 50 year old thinks it reaches the level of prestigious.

Lol!

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane simply not prestigious

Tulane is excellent school but I agree, would not consider prestigious, where I would include Emory, Rice, Boston College, Georgetown, etc in that category. But who really cares?? If your kid goes to Tulane, like it and is successful then the sky’s the limit!! That is what matters. Not if some 50 year old thinks it reaches the level of prestigious.

Tulane is prestigious. Obviously, Georgetown is on the level of its own so, yes I agree it’s not as prestigious is Georgetown. The other schools in Michigan are fine schools with not MORE prestigious than Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:This is all anecdotal (as is most of the info on this thread), but here is what I see as the difference between the students applying and being admitted to Tulane versus Emory (or Georgetown, or Tufts) - all of the applicants to these schools are awesome and well rounded and smart, but while the Tulane applicants have strong classes and GPAs, they did not kill themselves taking “the” highest level of every class (e.g., maybe they didn’t take AP language, or they took AP stat instead of AP calculus, or if they did take an AP in hard science, it was envt’l science) - versus the applicants to the other colleges are the kids who took basically the hardest level in everything. So basically the Tulane applicants are smarter because they enjoyed themselves in Hs more or at least experienced less academic stress

Anecdotal = ridiculous

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The difference between Georgetown and Emory lies in demographics. Georgetown is still permeated with private/boarding school white kids from New England. Emory is much more diverse. Georgetown has approx 50% white students while Emory is around 35%. Of course, Tulane is woeful in this area - it is 70% white.