Harvard of South - Emory, Duke, Rice or Vanderbilt?

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Overall Prestige: Duke
Medicine: JHU (South of Mason Dixon Line) if not Duke
Law and Grad Business: UVA
X Board Graduate Programs: UT Austin
Historical: William and Mary

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is the Harvard of the South. I know it's in NJ but culturally it feels more Southern than Emory or Rice.

I agree with this.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton is the Harvard of the South. I know it's in NJ but culturally it feels more Southern than Emory or Rice.

I agree with this.

And the Princeton, law, medical, and business schools all rival Harvard.

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Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, and Emory all became notable largely because of a benefaction from a single individual.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, and Emory all became notable largely because of a benefaction from a single individual.

Most of the elite privates owe their reputations/namesakes to rich benefactors: Stanford, many of the Ivies (Ezra Cornell; Nicholas Brown; Elihu Yale), UChicago (John D. Rockefeller. It's not just a Southern thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, and Emory all became notable largely because of a benefaction from a single individual.

Most of the elite privates owe their reputations/namesakes to rich benefactors: Stanford, many of the Ivies (Ezra Cornell; Nicholas Brown; Elihu Yale), UChicago (John D. Rockefeller. It's not just a Southern thing.

There are quite a few prominent Northern schools that do not. It was tough for schools in the South to claw back after the Civil War without a major benefactor.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton is the Harvard of the South. I know it's in NJ but culturally it feels more Southern than Emory or Rice.

I agree with this.

And the Princeton, law, medical, and business schools all rival Harvard.

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Vanderbilt is historically the most "southern" of these schools. Duke is the most prestigious by a significant margin. However, Vanderbilt has always been more revered by those in the south. Most Vanderbilt students are from the south and live there after graduation. Duke has a much larger New York/New England population.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt is historically the most "southern" of these schools. Duke is the most prestigious by a significant margin. However, Vanderbilt has always been more revered by those in the south. Most Vanderbilt students are from the south and live there after graduation. Duke has a much larger New York/New England population.

Vanderbilt just beat Alabama. That disqualifies them from being a nerd school (at least until they lose to Kentucky)

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt is historically the most "southern" of these schools. Duke is the most prestigious by a significant margin. However, Vanderbilt has always been more revered by those in the south. Most Vanderbilt students are from the south and live there after graduation. Duke has a much larger New York/New England population.

That's changed over the years. Most Vanderbilt students are from Illinois, California, NY, Florida, Texas, NJ, Virginia, and Massachusetts. And they tend to end up in New York.

I don't think there's any Harvard of the south. No one can compete with a history that goes back to the 1600s. But in the South, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Rice are where it's at.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton is the Harvard of the South. I know it's in NJ but culturally it feels more Southern than Emory or Rice.

I agree with this.

And the Princeton, law, medical, and business schools all rival Harvard.

Princeton doesn’t have law, medical or business schools. Huh?!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt is historically the most "southern" of these schools. Duke is the most prestigious by a significant margin. However, Vanderbilt has always been more revered by those in the south. Most Vanderbilt students are from the south and live there after graduation. Duke has a much larger New York/New England population.

That's changed over the years. Most Vanderbilt students are from Illinois, California, NY, Florida, Texas, NJ, Virginia, and Massachusetts. And they tend to end up in New York.

I don't think there's any Harvard of the south. No one can compete with a history that goes back to the 1600s. But in the South, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Rice are where it's at.

No Emory is better than Rice. Don't knownwhy you excluded it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton is the Harvard of the South. I know it's in NJ but culturally it feels more Southern than Emory or Rice.

I agree with this.

And the Princeton, law, medical, and business schools all rival Harvard.

Princeton doesn’t have law, medical or business schools. Huh?!

I've heard princeton folks sometimes talk about how harvard seems to function a bit like an institute of higher learning attached to a lucrative trade school, or something like that.

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Duke