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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have encountered many people claiming that Emory, Duke, Vanderbilt or Rice owns the title of Harvard of South in different occasions. In your opinion, especially for those from the South, which school is HOS? [/quote]

There is no such thing as Harvard of south or Stanford of East. All of these school are superb and doesn't need to mimic anyone. Harvard is Harvard because of its endowment, alumni and marketing, move them to south, lower their endowment $ and enrollment numbers and stop marketing then we'll see how they stack against Vanderbilt or Rice.[/quote]

If you moved them to the South, say Alabama or Mississippi, they would lose their best professors, they wouldn’t get prestigious visiting professors.  They wouldn’t get the top students.  It’s not possible.   It is a world class university.

Think about the Florida public universities and their football obsessed student body.  Move them to Vermont and applications would be down 90%.   Because they are who they are right where they are. [/quote]

Eh. Duke is in a redneck state. So is Rice. And you really can't get any more redneck than Tennessee, home of Vanderbilt. They all seem to be doing just fine attracting top professors and students. Part of their appeal is, in fact, that they are not located in gloomy, dour New England. Many find a blue city in the red South much more appealing than Providence, New Haven, Ithaca, or Hanover.

I'm also pretty confident that the University of Florida, UNC Chapel Hill, and UVA are more desirable destinations for faculty and gifted students than UMass, UConn, UNH, URI, and Vermont. Regional biases seem very antiquated these days. [/quote]

Regional biases are still a thing even if it’s just because students don’t want to travel for a whole day to go home or back to school.

I’m not sure why gifted students would be looking at state schools since are in the top 2% of all students but the Northeast is not known for their public schools unfortunately.   And again with the weather!   I hope that is not someone’s number one priority.  [/quote]

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