Elon college

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What is its reputation now? Back in the day it was a country club school but I hear recently if some kids I really respect for whom it was their first choice.

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Most consider it as a 2ntier school "at best".

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Anonymous wrote:Most consider it as a 2ntier school "at best".

I love your fluidity with "English."

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Statistically very comparable to JMU. Our school naviance puts them almost identical profile for admitted student. However biggest difference is size, student/faculty ratio and price. Likely if you are coming from a private school environment you will prefer Elon. If you are price sensitive and VA resident likely prefer JMU. Not many kids picking Elon over Ivy type schools, but some very solid students finding it to their liking. Probable cross applications with JMU, UNCW, Furman, Clemson, CNU, maybe Wofford. Very pretty campus.

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See this very long thread "Elon, is it as good as it looks?" from last year. Opinions varied widely.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/325117.page

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Anonymous wrote:Statistically very comparable to JMU. Our school naviance puts them almost identical profile for admitted student. However biggest difference is size, student/faculty ratio and price. Likely if you are coming from a private school environment you will prefer Elon. If you are price sensitive and VA resident likely prefer JMU. Not many kids picking Elon over Ivy type schools, but some very solid students finding it to their liking. Probable cross applications with JMU, UNCW, Furman, Clemson, CNU, maybe Wofford. Very pretty campus.

Agree with this. Would probably also overlap with South Carolina and Delaware in terms of OOS schools for MD/VA students, and some of the SLACs in the Mid-Atlantic like Dickinson, Gettysburg and Franklin & Marshall.

Toured it with my DS (who was mostly interested in larger in-state and OOS schools) last year. Too small/quiet/isolated for him, but I kept thinking it would be a nice school for some kids who'd gone to schools like Langley, Whitman, Potomac or Holton-Arms.

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Anonymous wrote:What is its reputation now? Back in the day it was a country club school but I hear recently if some kids I really respect for whom it was their first choice.

Big drug school several years back when I knew folks going there, which was probably due to the combination of a campus full of 2nd tier students (academically speaking) from wealthy families with entitlement attitudes. My sister went there, and she's all of those things.

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Anonymous wrote:What is its reputation now? Back in the day it was a country club school but I hear recently if some kids I really respect for whom it was their first choice.

Big drug school several years back when I knew folks going there, which was probably due to the combination of a campus full of 2nd tier students (academically speaking) from wealthy families with entitlement attitudes. My sister went there, and she's all of those things.

I'm sorry to hear you have a second-tier sister. It doesn't seem fair when her own sibling sounds like a first-class jerk.

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Full of preppy rich kids who weren't able to get into better schools.

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Is it true that they put dye in the grass to keep it so green?

DD has a friend that will be attending there next fall. He is not rich and the gave him a good financial package. He passed up Emory and a few others for that.

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Anonymous wrote:What is its reputation now? Back in the day it was a country club school but I hear recently if some kids I really respect for whom it was their first choice.

Big drug school several years back when I knew folks going there, which was probably due to the combination of a campus full of 2nd tier students (academically speaking) from wealthy families with entitlement attitudes. My sister went there, and she's all of those things.

I'm sorry to hear you have a second-tier sister. It doesn't seem fair when her own sibling sounds like a first-class jerk.

Just calling a spade a spade.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is its reputation now? Back in the day it was a country club school but I hear recently if some kids I really respect for whom it was their first choice.

Big drug school several years back when I knew folks going there, which was probably due to the combination of a campus full of 2nd tier students (academically speaking) from wealthy families with entitlement attitudes. My sister went there, and she's all of those things.

I'm sorry to hear you have a second-tier sister. It doesn't seem fair when her own sibling sounds like a first-class jerk.

Just calling a spade a spade.

You seem to have confused a lack of class with "candor."

[Anonymous]

US News ranks it as the #1 Regional University in the South.

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Anonymous wrote:US News ranks it as the #1 Regional University in the South.

What in the world does that mean? How did US News arrive at that conclusion?

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The “America’s Best Colleges” rankings, released by U.S. News & World Report on Sept. 9, provide the most thorough examination of how more than 1,500 four-year schools compare on a set of 16 indicators of excellence. Among the quality factors measured in the rankings are peer assessment, graduation and student retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving. U.S. News uses the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to produce categories of rankings for colleges and universities.

Previously this fall, Elon received top national rankings from Princeton Review, Forbes and Fiske Guide to Colleges.