Anonymous wrote:WashU, Rice, and Emory are fine. They are good schools for a lot of kids. But they simply not better or more prestigious than any Ivies, including Cornell. Cornell consistently outranks all of the aforementioned schools in global rankings, as well as in other national rankings outside of USNWR. As well as trumps them in terms of public perceptions and lay prestige.

Why do people insist on being slaves to the rankings? Take a look at the criteria and the weighting used in USNWR and tell me honestly that they're what you would use. Then go take a look at the Common Data Set for each college being discussed in this thread, and you'll realize there's virtually no difference in academics between them on the data reported there. And if you haven't read the most important study ever done on the unimportance of going to a brand-name school, take a look at this.....

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871566

Relax! And stop passing on your anxieties to your kids. If they're smart and hard-working, they're going to have the same opportunities for happiness and success regardless of whether they go to an amazing 'most selective' college or an amazing 'slightly less selective' college.

WashU, Rice, and Emory are fine. They are good schools for a lot of kids. But they simply not better or more prestigious than any Ivies, including Cornell. Cornell consistently outranks all of the aforementioned schools in global rankings, as well as in other national rankings outside of USNWR. As well as trumps them in terms of public perceptions and lay prestige.

You will see a lot more Emory grads on Wallstreet than WashU (or Rice). Don't know what better is supposed to mean to pp, but WashU is not better in that regard.

All of you claiming southern weather is better have clearly never lived in the south. It’s hot, humid, buggy and really nasty at least half the year. Makes DC seem almost pleasant in comparison. It’s also getting worse every year. And then you have the tornados and/or hurricanes if you are on coast or Gulf of Mexico. The weather really is awful. You may not get snow but most southern states get ice storms and those are way worse. I grew up down there. Would never ever want to live there again.

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Anonymous wrote:The South is Rising - Look at the exploding application numbers and prestige.

Harvard/Yale/Princeton = Duke/Rice
Columbia = Vanderbilt
Brown/Penn/Cornell/Dartmouth =Emory

Look at avg ACT/SAT rates and application rates and you'll see the gap has closed. People are interested in better life styles and weather.

This is patently incorrect. The southern schools you name are fine institutions, but they're nowhere near the level of the non-southern schools. Lol.

Yeah, these "Southern Ivies rule, losers drool!!!!11!" wannabes are really, really stretching reality here.

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is a much better school than Emory. Cornell is a much better school than Wash U.

+1.

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is a much better school than Emory. Cornell is a much better school than Wash U.

No one even knows where WashU is, and Cornell is not better.

Anonymous wrote:The South is Rising - Look at the exploding application numbers and prestige.

Harvard/Yale/Princeton = Duke/Rice
Columbia = Vanderbilt
Brown/Penn/Cornell/Dartmouth =Emory

Look at avg ACT/SAT rates and application rates and you'll see the gap has closed. People are interested in better life styles and weather.

This is patently incorrect. The southern schools you name are fine institutions, but they're nowhere near the level of the non-southern schools. Lol.

Wash U is a much better school than Emory. Cornell is a much better school than Wash U.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Rice at best are similar to Cornell. Yes Rice has very high test scores but it's name brand and reputation don't exactly match. Vandy is closer to Brown/Dartmouth and Duke is UPenn level. Although technically not southern WashU is Cornell level as well.

Emory, Rice and WashU are not Cornell level, lol.

Sorry WashU and Rice ranked higher than Cornell
Emory is not even T20 though

it's 21... give it up loser.

Anonymous wrote:Emory and Rice at best are similar to Cornell. Yes Rice has very high test scores but it's name brand and reputation don't exactly match. Vandy is closer to Brown/Dartmouth and Duke is UPenn level. Although technically not southern WashU is Cornell level as well.

You're pontificating in an empirical vacuum.

Go to the colleges' Common Data Sets and you'll see that each has areas in which they're stronger than the others. And if you look at Princeton Review's ratings by the students themselves of their happiness with their professors and with the school in general, you'll see that those at southern schools and California schools and liberal arts colleges average significantly higher scores than their Ivy League counterparts.

But all that said, there's just not enough difference there academically to be worth the time and effort parsing it out. Base your decision on what grabs your interest about one school that the others don't have.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Rice at best are similar to Cornell. Yes Rice has very high test scores but it's name brand and reputation don't exactly match. Vandy is closer to Brown/Dartmouth and Duke is UPenn level. Although technically not southern WashU is Cornell level as well.

Emory, Rice and WashU are not Cornell level, lol.

Sorry WashU and Rice ranked higher than Cornell
Emory is not even T20 though

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Anonymous wrote:Emory and Rice at best are similar to Cornell. Yes Rice has very high test scores but it's name brand and reputation don't exactly match. Vandy is closer to Brown/Dartmouth and Duke is UPenn level. Although technically not southern WashU is Cornell level as well.

Emory, Rice and WashU are not Cornell level, lol.

And you're basing this on...?

Anonymous wrote:Emory and Rice at best are similar to Cornell. Yes Rice has very high test scores but it's name brand and reputation don't exactly match. Vandy is closer to Brown/Dartmouth and Duke is UPenn level. Although technically not southern WashU is Cornell level as well.

Emory, Rice and WashU are not Cornell level, lol.

Southern ivy is not a thing. Just like how public ivies aren't a thing. It's just cringeworthy.