Anonymous wrote:None? They don’t compare- at all

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA of course.

UNC… higher ranked

HEELS!

Anonymous wrote:All 4 are elite however Vandy is the most confusing as its a mystery as to what their actually good at. But Duke is Harvard,
Vandy is Yale, Emory is Columbia, and Rice is Princeton.

OMG, no. Just stop - you look pathetic.
NP

There is only one Harvard. No other, period. McGill is not the Harvard of Canada and Carleton is not the Harvard of the Midwest and Emory is not the Harvard of the South. Stop it!!!

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?

All are top schools with considerable overlap in terms of the students they attract. I'd throw Johns Hopkins into that mix. USNWR rankings (or any rankings) give a rough idea of how good a school might be, but it would probably be more accurate to think of schools in the same general bracket as roughly equivalent. I can't say Harvard is better than Duke because it's four places higher in the rankings. Harvard will work better for some students, Duke for others.

I’ve heard Tulane described this way. I think it’s silly and inaccurate. Harvard is Harvard. Duke is Duke. Very different schools with different strengths and cultures. I don’t see the point in forcing comparisons and imagining similarities that aren’t really there. No one says that Harvard is the Vanderbilt of the North. It’s possible and more useful to just look at each school separately as an academic and cultural environment.

Anonymous wrote:But... no.

We live in a globalized society, not the antebellum sectionalism of 180 years ago that lacked transportation infrastructure and cultural diffusion.

Harvard is Harvard.
UVA is UVA.
Duke is Duke.
Tulane is Tulane.
(I can keep going...)

That's it.

+1000

But... no.

We live in a globalized society, not the antebellum sectionalism of 180 years ago that lacked transportation infrastructure and cultural diffusion.

Harvard is Harvard.
UVA is UVA.
Duke is Duke.
Tulane is Tulane.
(I can keep going...)

That's it.

Anonymous wrote:UVA of course.

UNC… higher ranked

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Are you the poster from NJ?

I’m going to remember where I was when I read the NJ post just like I remember where I was when I heard JFK got shot.

Rice as Princeton????? Hahahahaha
More like Carnegie Mellon

Is Duke, like….Penn? Good name and history and some really good people, but also seems overpopulated by a-holes.

Vandy might be some weird cross between Williams and Princeton

I don’t really know a lot about Emory.

UVA of course.

Duke > Emory=Vandy> Rice.

Anonymous wrote:It's not really a useful comparison. No school in the South has the history and the alumni that Harvard does.

Vanderbilt, Rice, and Duke are all outstanding schools. I wouldn't include Emory at that level. Rice is a fairly small school and tends to be more STEM oriented. Of the other two, I think Vanderbilt is the preeminet school in the South these days.

Emory is the same level as Vandy and Rice. Duke is a T10 school always has been. The others aren't in fact Emory is the only other one that was T10 at one point in time ( for only 1 year).

It's not really a useful comparison. No school in the South has the history and the alumni that Harvard does.

Vanderbilt, Rice, and Duke are all outstanding schools. I wouldn't include Emory at that level. Rice is a fairly small school and tends to be more STEM oriented. Of the other two, I think Vanderbilt is the preeminet school in the South these days.