Schools with Rigorous Academics and Big Sports Culture

[Anonymous]

Duke
USC
Vanderbilt
UNC
Notre Dame
Michigan
UCLA
Stanford

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here you go. Now just figure out which schools on the list also rank high in academics.

https://nacda.com/documents/2022/4/21/April21Overall.pdf

Yes - good list.

OP - any big state university will have an Honors college with their top academic students. Your daughter can find rigor, even if the school as a whole doesn’t rank highly. Bonus is that if she is overqualified, schools like Alabama give full rides.

[Anonymous]

Duke
UNC
ND
Boston College
Wisconsin
Michigan
Stanford
Northwestern

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't bother applying to the Ivys or similar unless you have a hook; you won't get in - doesn't matter if you are second coming.

UVA, Wisconsin, Miami, UF

[Anonymous]

University of Connecticut

[Anonymous]

Stanford has a very strong athlete culture

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here you go. Now just figure out which schools on the list also rank high in academics.

https://nacda.com/documents/2022/4/21/April21Overall.pdf

Yes - good list.

OP - any big state university will have an Honors college with their top academic students. Your daughter can find rigor, even if the school as a whole doesn’t rank highly. Bonus is that if she is overqualified, schools like Alabama give full rides.

UVA doesn’t have honors but it’s very difficult to get into

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the term “rigorous academics.” It completely depends on the child’s major. A chemistry degree at nowhere school is going to be way harder than a sociology degree at Yale.

Tell us you didn’t go to Yale without telling us you didn’t go to Yale.

I went to Stanford and it’s true.

Which means you didn't major in chemistry at a nowhere school or sociology at Yale, so what qualifies you to comment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notes Dame

+1

[Anonymous]

Florida

[Anonymous]

SEC all the way.

Or ACC if you must.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SEC all the way.

Or ACC if you must.

SEC = rigorous academics???

[Anonymous]

Minnesota

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SEC all the way.

Or ACC if you must.

SEC = rigorous academics???

Yes. Those schools are not filled with backwater inbred hillbillies, contrary to what you may believe. Vanderbilt is a top private. Auburn, Florida, Georgia and Texas A&M are all highly regarded publics. Missouri has a great journalism program. Alabama is strong in engineering given its proximity to the military industrial complex in Huntsville. There are highly-accomplished and motivated cohorts at all of the SEC schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SEC all the way.

Or ACC if you must.

SEC = rigorous academics???

Again totally depends on the major.