College comparisons

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Notre Dame: BYU

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame: BYU

Yikes

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame: BYU

Yikes

Think about it first.

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"If I'm NYU, I'm feeling dissed."
-plenty of people on the w.coast would feel dissed if they were Usc.
I agree w/a previous poster. Nyu/Usc are good comps. Both seen as big city rich-kid schools, well-connected families, solid professional schools, not the greatest undergrad reps in the past but relatively recent found rise in undergrad rep.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame: BYU

Yikes

Think about it first.

I can kind of see it but not a peer relationship more like a younger sibling (BYU) and older sibling (ND) relationship.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd say

W&M:SUNY Binghampton
American: Macalaster

Binghampton specifically targeted trying to be W&M at one time, but they don't seem similar. American would need a corollary that is in D.C. D.C. is Georgetown > GW > American.

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Technically W&M's closest academic and geographic peer would probably be UVA because both have 1470 median with 59% submitting scores (i think W&M's 25th is 10 SAT points lower than UVA's and their 75th is 10 SAT points higher) but UVA is more than double the size so I would say WFU is their closest peer.

UVA is closer to 3X larger than W&M. W&M is often cross-shopped against LACs. I think UVA's at the undergraduate level is UNC. At graduate level, with emphasis on professional schools, perhaps Penn. There are very few national public universities of W&M's size. It is a much more common size for private schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame: BYU

Yikes

Think about it first.

I can kind of see it but not a peer relationship more like a younger sibling (BYU) and older sibling (ND) relationship.

ND has much higher stats, but they both attract people who really want to be there specifically over other alternatives where they could be admitted. Hence the high yield rates.

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Furman: Sewanee

Rhodes: Trinity (CT)

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Anonymous wrote:W&M: University of Rochester

Well, Rochester, Tufts, W&M, and Wake are kind of the odd ones out on the way USNWR does National University rankings. They have that in common.

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Rochester, Tufts, W&M, Wake, Tulane all moved together when the methodology changed. Tulane more so than the rest.

They are all universities, but on a spectrum from mega university (e.g. Michigan) to quintessential LAC (e.g. Williams), they are quite a bit further toward the LAC than most on the national university list. Not as much research, etc.

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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
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William & Mary:
American:

If I'm NYU, I'm feeling dissed.

NYU and USC are very similar. A big percentage of the school come from wealthy, well-connected families. A lot of incredibly talented international students. The business school at NYU is world famous, nothing needs to be said about it. USC's business school is neck and neck with it. They both are amazing for their law and medical schools. Both in an huge population area. Obviously the biggest difference is lack of sports at NYU and NYU's very urban campus. But what schools even have such an urban campus? Maybe a couple of the Boston schools? So NYU matches up very well with USC.

I think the surroundings of USC don’t feel urban at all. I’d rather compare NYU to BU.

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Anonymous wrote:W&M: University of Rochester

Well, Rochester, Tufts, W&M, and Wake are kind of the odd ones out on the way USNWR does National University rankings. They have that in common.

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Rochester, Tufts, W&M, Wake, Tulane all moved together when the methodology changed. Tulane more so than the rest.

They are all universities, but on a spectrum from mega university (e.g. Michigan) to quintessential LAC (e.g. Williams), they are quite a bit further toward the LAC than most on the national university list. Not as much research, etc.

Agreed. Wish there was a mid-size university rankings lists by US News since the current methodology benefits super large and super wealthy institutions with a lot of graduate student activity.

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Denison is not Hamilton.

Denison:Skidmore

Hamilton:Bowdoin or Colorado College

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USC's selectivity is off the charts right now. It is 12%. Being on the west coast, it will have a different feel than NYU in terms of campus environment. It is a huge sports scool. But institutionally it matches up well with NYU. The urban campus and cosmopolitan feel of NYU and so many international students aligns more with BU, NEU and not having sports more so, but still USC is like a west coast NYU with sports.

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Johns Hopkins: University of Chicago
Middlebury: Wesleyan
Wake Forest: Elon

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BC is Notre Dame's little brother, just like FlaState is Florida's and VaTech is UVA's.