USC (CA)
Ranked 15 by Wall St Journal, 16% acceptance rate, very attractive student body

this thread has been derailed - smu, nova, miami, clemson - these schools are not academically competitive.

the point was the balance the two attributes - not just list where hot blonde southern people congregate.

Villanova
Miami (both OH and FL)
Vanderbilt
USC (CA)
Clemson

Anonymous wrote:SMU. Probably the most attractive student body you'll find. And fairly intelligent.

+1. My cousin attended SMU about 10 years ago, and I went to a few football games with her. The women on campus are truly beautiful!

USC and NYU.

I dated a guy from Westpoint when I was in college. Holy hot campus!

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton
NYU
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
UPenn

fyi: USC is no longer a rich kid joke college - tougher admissions standards than U-Va.

No. I taught at USC. It is still very much University of spoiled children. Very blonde, attractive, nicer cars than faculty and big into the Greek scene. It is not a Highly Selective student like Ga Tech and UVA. It's much more difficult to get into the latter two, which are HIghly Selective as opposed to merely Selective. Also UVA was just named top public by Business Insider for best Public in the nation, so now outstrips UCLA Berkely and Michigan. No way would I send my kid to USC (the one in CA).

Lots of misinformation being thrown around. Here’s some things I KNOW to be true.

Regarding USC, I’ve heard things were different as recently as a decade ago, but I can’t speak to the past. In 2016, USC is beyond doubt an elite university – at least Top 25 and HIGHLY selective – 16.5% admission rate. Because they are so much larger, they have more uber-elite students (number not %) on campus than smaller higher ranked schools like Stanford. USC is either the first or second most diverse university in the nation and it shows on campus. Yes, there are Hollywood stars and many that have the looks to be stars, but there are many foreign students who would fit right in at MIT or CalTech. Like most of the other schools listed above, there is a very large Jewish population and also more Catholics than Notre Dame or Georgetown.

SMU is basically what you’d have if you could extract the “Greek scene” of USC without the Presidential Scholars, Jewish students, Engineers and Foreign Students. The “average” SMU student is far better looking than any of the other schools mentioned here.

UVA is academically comparable to, but very different from Berkeley, UCLA or Michigan. UCLA students (other than the cheerleaders) won’t win any awards for looks – tough looks are very subjective. All the UC’s have been crippled by budget cuts and have slipped relative to schools like USC. My general impression is that UVA is more like Vandy or USC than it is like the large state schools.

What the hell is self select? Doesn't every college have self selective applicants? What an insecure spin.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton
NYU
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
UPenn

fyi: USC is no longer a rich kid joke college - tougher admissions standards than U-Va.

No. I taught at USC. It is still very much University of spoiled children. Very blonde, attractive, nicer cars than faculty and big into the Greek scene. It is not a Highly Selective student like Ga Tech and UVA. It's much more difficult to get into the latter two, which are HIghly Selective as opposed to merely Selective. Also UVA was just named top public by Business Insider for best Public in the nation, so now outstrips UCLA Berkely and Michigan. No way would I send my kid to USC (the one in CA).

UVA's accepta
[b]nce rate is close to 40% not very selective.

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Nope 29.0% for class of 2020 and most kids self-select in applications. In other words, Kids looks at the numbers and know they won't get in (93% were in top 10% of their classs this year) so don't apply. Or, even more important, the big high schools in Fairfax and Langley will only push the best and the brightest to UVA because they have a reputation to keep If I had asked them to write letters of rec'n for one of my SN children (decent GPA and scores, but not outstanding) they would have laughed in my face. The big schools keyhole certain students to UVA and there's really very little a parent can do about it. However, if their kid has the grades, scores and ECs, then the parents should fight he high school to put in an application.

28.9% acceptance rate atUVA for 2020. Kids accepted from 45 states and 102 countries. http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2016/03/university-releases-admission-decisions-for-class-of-2020

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton
NYU
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
UPenn

fyi: USC is no longer a rich kid joke college - tougher admissions standards than U-Va.

No. I taught at USC. It is still very much University of spoiled children. Very blonde, attractive, nicer cars than faculty and big into the Greek scene. It is not a Highly Selective student like Ga Tech and UVA. It's much more difficult to get into the latter two, which are HIghly Selective as opposed to merely Selective. Also UVA was just named top public by Business Insider for best Public in the nation, so now outstrips UCLA Berkely and Michigan. No way would I send my kid to USC (the one in CA).

UVA's accepta
nce rate is close to 40% not very selective.

Nope 29.0% for class of 2020 and most kids self-select in applications. In other words, Kids looks at the numbers and know they won't get in (93% were in top 10% of their classs this year) so don't apply. Or, even more important, the big high schools in Fairfax and Langley will only push the best and the brightest to UVA because they have a reputation to keep If I had asked them to write letters of rec'n for one of my SN children (decent GPA and scores, but not outstanding) they would have laughed in my face. The big schools keyhole certain students to UVA and there's really very little a parent can do about it. However, if their kid has the grades, scores and ECs, then the parents should fight he high school to put in an application.

Anonymous wrote:SMU. Probably the most attractive student body you'll find. And fairly intelligent.

SMU is a dumber 'USC' in Texas.