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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Duke may be the closest. But really, it is not that close.

I'm not saying you're wrong because this is my perception as well but...how do you actually know this? Are you just basing this on rankings?

There is no such thing.

Duke may be the closest. But really, it is not that close.

In the 60s Duke was the Harvard of the South.
Go to UVa.

Anonymous wrote:Duke > Emory=Vandy> Rice.

+1

They’re all good schools. Duke is probably the best of the 4 but they’re all great so why split hairs.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard- Duke
Yale- Vandy
Upenn- Emory
Princeton- Rice
Dartmouth - Wash&Lee
Brown- Davidson
Columbia- Georgetown
I can't think of a southern private school for Cornell, maybe GeorgiaTech for public, or WashU.
Not to say the southern elite are comparable to the ivys but if there was a magnolia league, this is how it would compare to the ivy league.

WashU isn’t in the south.

I think in the South these days, Vanderbilt is generally regarded as the most prominent school. Nationally though, Duke is still broadly seen as the best school south of the Mason Dixon.

Anonymous wrote:You forgot UF.

When I went to UF, people called it the Berkeley of the South.

Anonymous wrote: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?

Any school south of Pennsylvania which thinks plagiarism isn’t a big deal.

Probably Duke and Vanderbilt - those are the top schools that come to mind when I think of Southern colleges

Harvard- Duke
Yale- Vandy
Upenn- Emory
Princeton- Rice
Dartmouth - Wash&Lee
Brown- Davidson
Columbia- Georgetown
I can't think of a southern private school for Cornell, maybe GeorgiaTech for public, or WashU.
Not to say the southern elite are comparable to the ivys but if there was a magnolia league, this is how it would compare to the ivy league.

Anonymous wrote:people on West Coast don't think very highly of Rice, Emory, or Vanderbilt.

And us on the east coast dont think highly of UCLA and USC

William & Mary