Anonymous
Post 09/29/2025 17:46     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DD will be a Junior. She has been interested in all 3 schools mentioned here for a long time because several members of our family have attended all 3 universities. 10 of us to be exact (3 Pepperdine, 3 Tulane and 4 Miami).

It if funny that between us (we are all between 30 and 45) we have always thought of our Tulane relatives as the ones with the better ranked school/pedigree….then Pepperdine and last Miami. Even our Miami family members thought so….

We were having fun the other day looking at recent rankings and the effect that changes (specifically with USNWR) over the last 2 years have copjmeltely turned around the rankings of these 3…. Miami way ahead of Tulane and then Pepperdine.
2021 - Tulane 42, Pepperdine 49, Miami not top 50
2022 - Tulane 41, Pepperdine 49, Miami not top 50

Jump to 2025: Miami 63, Tulane 63, Pepperdine 80

Wow…Yes I know methodology changed….but that is quite a manufactured change…..


Jump to 2025: Miami 64, Tulane 69, Pepperdine 84.

Again, these are big jumps from the 50 rankings for all 3 just 3 yrs ago. Pretty sad that smaller classes are no longer a variable.


Pepperdine got really hurt with those changes, but Tulane got destroyed by the methodology changes.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2025 14:52     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:Hard to believe that eliminating Class Size and % of faculty with Terminal degrees in favor of % of Pell Grant recipients and # of 1st gen students translates to a better ranking.

Completely ludicrous.


it is ludicrous. This is why a lot of mediocre state schools jumped in the rankings 2 years ago.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 19:31     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Hard to believe that eliminating Class Size and % of faculty with Terminal degrees in favor of % of Pell Grant recipients and # of 1st gen students translates to a better ranking.

Completely ludicrous.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 14:23     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:DD will be a Junior. She has been interested in all 3 schools mentioned here for a long time because several members of our family have attended all 3 universities. 10 of us to be exact (3 Pepperdine, 3 Tulane and 4 Miami).

It if funny that between us (we are all between 30 and 45) we have always thought of our Tulane relatives as the ones with the better ranked school/pedigree….then Pepperdine and last Miami. Even our Miami family members thought so….

We were having fun the other day looking at recent rankings and the effect that changes (specifically with USNWR) over the last 2 years have copjmeltely turned around the rankings of these 3…. Miami way ahead of Tulane and then Pepperdine.
2021 - Tulane 42, Pepperdine 49, Miami not top 50
2022 - Tulane 41, Pepperdine 49, Miami not top 50

Jump to 2025: Miami 63, Tulane 63, Pepperdine 80

Wow…Yes I know methodology changed….but that is quite a manufactured change…..


Jump to 2025: Miami 64, Tulane 69, Pepperdine 84.

Again, these are big jumps from the 50 rankings for all 3 just 3 yrs ago. Pretty sad that smaller classes are no longer a variable.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 22:56     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
I’m sure Miami /Tulane is similar, but my niece just graduated from Pepperdine. There was so much wealth there at the top that she got a little spoiled with trips to Cabo on friends private jets, summer in friend’s homes in Hawaii. I thought it was a little too much. But she had a blast.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2025 18:07     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:If the OP's family is Jewish, then Tulane & Miami make sense, but not Pepperdine.


This is BS. I’m the Jewish PP whose daughter is a 2nd yr at Pepperdine. We live in New Orleans and know all about Tulane. We love Tulane. She just wanted out.

Or are you saying that White people need to go to majority white schools and black people should go to HBUs and Jewish people can only go to Yeshiva or Tulane? Please. I want my daughter to live in the real world, not in a cozy little environment that makes them feel at home in one way or another.

Anonymous
Post 09/24/2025 17:25     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
The evangelical aspect of Pepperdine is a good thing. This generation needs Christ!
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2025 17:06     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
If the OP's family is Jewish, then Tulane & Miami make sense, but not Pepperdine.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2025 17:05     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:Pepperdine almost the opposite of Tulane.


Agree. Ifte Op's family I'd Jewish, then Tulane & U Miami make sense, but Pepperdine does not.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2025 16:21     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My kid is interested in Miami and we will be touring it in the end of August.
Is it possible for a visiting student to sample/audit a class?


With any luck you'll be able to see the brand new dorms that are set to open before the semester starts.

https://www.vmdo.com/university-of-miami-centennial-village.html


Just toured Miami with DD last week. These are really nice dorms. She really enjoyed the tour. We also got to go to the Florida x Miami game and the atmosphere was electric! Great combo of small private school with D1 football.
Anonymous
Post 09/24/2025 13:28     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
This is great to hear about Pepperdine. The only thing we really liked about it was that even in the 1st year, classes were only 16-20 kids per class. It was an amazing experience for DD.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 14:23     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Miami is a much bigger football school than the other two. If that matters.


One doesnt even have Football….They are all completely different environments. The only thing they have in common is that they are all expensive Privates in the T50 to T80 range and the avg kid there is wealthy….


Bingo. With all of that said, I would prefer to live in Malibu and be close to LA then in the craziness of Miami or New Orleans.


I live near Pepperdine and it is a very special place to spend time. The college itself is evangelical so not for everyone, but Malibu is magical. My own Senior wants to go to Tulane. In the end, kids just want something different. College is the perfect time to experience that.


Absolutely. nothing wrong with that . Tulane is an amazing school. We are the opposite. We live in the New Orleans area and despite getting in Tulane she wanted to go away. So Pepperdine it was. We are Jewish and we were so worried about the Christian indoctrination environment. But she is now in her 2nd year spending the year abroad and she is as happy as she can be. She had an amazing experience in her 1st year and despite all of the criticism we heard on this board, she fit in nicely, made amazing friends, joined a sorority and nobody has made her feel unwanted or excluded because she is Jewish.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 11:38     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Miami is a much bigger football school than the other two. If that matters.


One doesnt even have Football….They are all completely different environments. The only thing they have in common is that they are all expensive Privates in the T50 to T80 range and the avg kid there is wealthy….


Bingo. With all of that said, I would prefer to live in Malibu and be close to LA then in the craziness of Miami or New Orleans.


I live near Pepperdine and it is a very special place to spend time. The college itself is evangelical so not for everyone, but Malibu is magical. My own Senior wants to go to Tulane. In the end, kids just want something different. College is the perfect time to experience that.


I would not consider Pepperdine evangelical.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 11:19     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:Are you Evangelical Christians?

You know Pepperdine has public prayer meetings outside on the campus multiple times a day.


DP: I'm a Christian college grad, and this made me laugh. Pepperdine isn't Christian college like where I went. And even in that more overtly Christian college world there are huge differences (Wheaton and Messiah are NOT similar to Liberty and Grove City).

Anyway, I would defer to people familiar with the college, it's faith relationship and just faith in general!
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 11:14     Subject: Miami/Tulane/Pepperdine
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Miami is a much bigger football school than the other two. If that matters.


One doesnt even have Football….They are all completely different environments. The only thing they have in common is that they are all expensive Privates in the T50 to T80 range and the avg kid there is wealthy….


Bingo. With all of that said, I would prefer to live in Malibu and be close to LA then in the craziness of Miami or New Orleans.


I live near Pepperdine and it is a very special place to spend time. The college itself is evangelical so not for everyone, but Malibu is magical. My own Senior wants to go to Tulane. In the end, kids just want something different. College is the perfect time to experience that.