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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of these schools are good but are seen as truly prestigious only regionally. DC is technically the south, so I think we tend to view them as better than other regions do. 
In California, you'd be hard pressed to find people who think Duke is better than Cal or UCLA and they wouldn't see it as a peer of Stanford or top ivies either. It is kind of like a private UCLA: a great school with great basketball tradition! [/quote]
And people on the east coast don't think all that highly of UCLA. [/quote]

Which is fair. And I find to be true. The East Coast, the South, and the Midwest don't really think about UCLA. And most people in California don't think at all about Michigan, UNC, or Virginia.

They are generally regional schools. Maybe Berkeley still has the name. But they hardly admit anyone from OOS except a few full pay folks. So that will change over time.

For schools with national appeal, it will always be the privates, including some of the southern schools like Duke, Vanderbilt, and Rice. Comparing them to Harvard or whatever is a fairly pointless conversation. Harvard is Harvard but it's not great at everything. Most engineering students would take Rice then Duke then Vanderbilt before Harvard.

Don't think Emory, much less Tulane, are part of the same conversation.

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I'm pretty sure this statement is wrong: "Most engineering students would take Rice then Duke then Vanderbilt before Harvard." Do you have any data that supports the assertion?
Rice is the least national of those schools name wise (yes, below Emory). It is a great target school now since it still flies under the radar and some people continue to be anti-Texas. The old Rice alums are a totally different breed compared to the others too. A fair number of solid and old fashioned Texas oil men. [/quote]

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