OT - Most desirable colleges in the US

Washington U in St Louis bugged the crap out of me to come up there coming out of high school.

Yeah I think UCF has a massive enrollment too. Like 50k+

I don't believe for a second that Tulane gets more applicants than LSU or even ULL.

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College of Charleston

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I was accepted, but decided to stay with HOPE

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This is bullshite

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It's not. The larger schools are going to get the most applicants. That's what this study is based on.

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Tulane not larger than LSU. Vandy not larger than UT-Knox.

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Those are a little bit different. In those states, those two schools are quite prestigious. They're going to get a lot of applicants, especially from out of state prospects.

ETA: South Carolina doesn't have a prestigious academic institution like those two states. Georgia has Emory, GT, and Georgia. When you combine a big SEC school with good academics and a great town like Athens, it's easy to see why we get more applicants. Plus GT is more specialized which is going to decrease its number of applicants.

Oh, I get UGAg's draw - diverse offerings, college town, coeds, largest University - just those two I pointed out are very surprising to me. Tulane is about the size of Wake Forest.

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Same could be said for SC. I think Clemson is a better school than Scar but they get more applicants

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Clemson is a more highly ranked school, but the schools cater to different interests and career paths. Clemson is not so far ahead of USC that if you were admitted to both but preferred urban to rural life, you would cast that aside and enroll in Clemson regardless. Within the state there is little perception that Clemson is a better school, they're viewed on roughly equivalent footing from an objective viewer (although try finding anyone in SC objective a/b USC v Clemson). Really, only Furman enjoys that distinction, although I think Clemson's enrollment standards are creeping up on FU.

In reality, almost all state schools offer the same education. The admission's standards determine the quality of competition at a school, but after that everything is roughly the same. In graduate school, I found that the UGA, Clemson, UF, USC, UT, UNC, etc kids were all mostly on the same footing. It was the kids who went to private school (Furman, W&L, Richmond, Wake, Sewanee, etc) who were more disciplined and rigorously academic (likely owing to the very slim student:faculty ratio and the heavy workloads). And then, of course, your kids from the elite schools were very successful, whether public or private (Duke, Harvard, Penn, UVA).

You're crazy. Academically SC goes:
Furman
CofC
Clemson
USC
Woffard