GWU? G'Town?

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Anonymous wrote:Ole Miss.

I suppose that's brand name, in a "Lowreys Microwave Pork Rinds" kind of way.

Or if you're from Texas.

Anonymous wrote:Mami University.

Is that where you get a degree in your pjs? "Never even leave home!"

Miami University too.

Mami University.

Anonymous wrote:Are the Claremont colleges first tier or 2nd tier?

I think Pomona is first tier. Some of the others, like Pitzer, are second tier.

Anonymous wrote:Are the Claremont colleges first tier or 2nd tier?

They're very difficult to get into, but their name recognition is not what it should be on the east coast.

Univ. of Miami

Are the Claremont colleges first tier or 2nd tier?

Have you considered St. Olaf's or Elon?

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Anonymous wrote:Duke and Vanderbilt have been able to separate themselves from the other Southern Ivies (Rice, SMU, Tulane, Baylor) in recent years largely by attracting students from this area and NYC. The other Southern Ivies have woken up and are moving up the rankings. If you want a degree that will appreciate over time, those four schools are a good bet.

Southern Ivies? I grew up in Texas and am very familiar wieth these schools. Rice would be considered a Southern Ivy. Possibly Tulane. Baylor and SMU are in a different league. They are good schools, but typically kids who can get into Rice or Tulane would not consder SMU or Baylor (except perhaps as backup options). I do think SMU would qualify as a brand name school that is easy to get into. Tulane isn't that easy and Rice is even harder.

Google is your friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ivy

Rice is ranked #17 tied with Vandy. Tulane is #51 SMU is #58 - the SMU alum network is much stronger than Tulane's (or Rice's for that matter), but no city knows how to throw party like New Orleans. Baylor is #77. Each of these schools has been moving up the rankings.

I don't think this is true - Tulane has a very strong alumni network. I've met people all over the world who are enthusiastic about their time at Tulane and very willing to help out young alumni - including me, obviously.

Virginia Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of colleges or universities referred to as Brand Name. If you have a child that doesn't have the scores to get into a top school then you should focus on your child's interest and pick the schools (even lower tier but respectable programs) that have great faculty, facilities and research activities in these areas.

Yeah but we all got the drift of OP's question.

Seriously. Everybody talks about college brands. Especially the colleges' own marketing, I mean "admissions" departments.

emory and carnegie mellon are still pretty easy to get into to be honest with high scores but no hooks (just checked out their acceptance rates and they are not below 25%).

they haven't turned into U. Chicago where 10 years ago it was 30-40% acceptance rates down to 8-10%.

Very surprised how tough vandy has become.

I'd say emory and CMU (sans Tepper or SCS) borderline the 'crap shoot' schools and 2nd tier.

Growing up in PA, I saw tons of kids who were cross admitted to cmu, emory, and psu and turned down the first two (non-computer science).

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of colleges or universities referred to as Brand Name. If you have a child that doesn't have the scores to get into a top school then you should focus on your child's interest and pick the schools (even lower tier but respectable programs) that have great faculty, facilities and research activities in these areas.

Yeah but we all got the drift of OP's question.