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re: Top 25 Southern Colleges
Posted on 8/15/19 at 10:25 pm to Dallasgrowl
Posted on 8/15/19 at 10:25 pm to Dallasgrowl
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that the article appears to have been written by a child. The irony of this dude, being a junior at the #1 school on his list not less, is writing about the worthiness of "Prestigious Universities" is hilarious.
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Posted on 8/15/19 at 10:32 pm to ClassicCityAlum
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Perhaps SMU or Miami deserve to be top 25, but I find it difficulty to justify their tuition. In Florida, UF and maybe even FSU are more prestigious. In Texas, UT, A&M, and maybe even Baylor and TCU are all better than SMU.
No. SMU is the best of those 3 in Texas. BU and TCU aren't bad schools, but if you're going to pay private school tuition, SMU is your best bet (aside from Rice of course).
Posted on 8/15/19 at 10:35 pm to Krampus
Agreed. SMU is ahead of BU & TCU by a decent amount.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 10:36 pm to Farmer1906
Tulane should be higher, definitely top 10 in the South.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 10:42 pm to ClassicCityAlum
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19. Texas A&M (I'm sorry, but your acceptance rate is more than 70%. That's embarrassing).
Standards for admission to A&M are still high. There's just a shite ton of qualified students coming out of Texas high schools and not enough good universities to accomodate them.
There's also a lot of state politics concerning higher ed funding and admissions in Texas that tie A&Ms hands to an extent. Top 10% law and the limiting of PUF funds to UT and A&M being chief among them.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 11:00 pm to JamalSanders
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Duke ain't in the south.
Durham, North Carolina.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:10 am to Reservoir dawg
That’s north of Charlotte. Nope.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:25 am to Morris1
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That’s north of Charlotte. Nope.
So is Nashville.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:20 am to WildTchoupitoulas
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. I was always a proponent of open admissions. If you could cut the work, you stayed in, if you couldn't, you were culled out
So any kid who graduates HS gets in? Where exactly are you gonna house these kids?How many extra professors and buildings are you gonna construct to accommodate these incoming Freshman?
There are others public institutions these kids can go to along with JC.If they can do the work at those places it's not that difficult to transfer in UGA
Posted on 8/16/19 at 4:48 am to dlc83
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ACC 9 > SEC 4 out of top 25
List seems legit.
AAU Members:
ACC - 5 (Duke, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Pitt, Virginia)
SEC - 4 (Florida, Missouri, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt)
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:25 am to CGSC Lobotomy
I hate it when people try to reduce the boundaries of the South - saying, for example, anything north of Charlotte is “North.” Are you kidding me. Virginia is very southern once you leave the North Virginia DC metro area. Heck, the same goes for parts of southern Illinois.
We need to grow and maintain the Southern culture (particularly in the South’s large metro areas) so let’s not start excluding people. Love of college football is simply part of the culture.
We need to grow and maintain the Southern culture (particularly in the South’s large metro areas) so let’s not start excluding people. Love of college football is simply part of the culture.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 6:44 am to RD Dawg
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So any kid who graduates HS gets in?
Yep, pretty much.
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Where exactly are you gonna house these kids?
When I was a freshman, LSU was open admissions. I lived in North Stadium Dormitory. It was awesome. Two men to a room (they were designed for 3), with a communal bathroom down the hall. We didn't have to have 'suites' back then. No AC, but we did have a ceiling fan.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 7:07 am to dlc83
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I hate it when people try to reduce the boundaries of the South - saying, for example, anything north of Charlotte is “North.” Are you kidding me. Virginia is very southern once you leave the North Virginia DC metro area. Heck, the same goes for parts of southern Illinois.
I’d invite any deep southerner to visit Lynchburg, Danville or Emporia and tell me that anything north of Charlotte isn’t southern.
It’s really just a matter of ignorance.
Civil War deaths by state.
Anyone that says we aren’t southern just looked at a map and say that due to proximity, they must not be southern.
This post was edited on 8/16/19 at 7:15 am
Posted on 8/16/19 at 3:56 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
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Yep, pretty much.
There are 10 million people in Georgia and 6 million in metro Atlanta alone and room for perhaps 5,800 incoming Freshman (barely because Freshman are now being encouraged to live off campus) Good luck with tripling or quadrupling those numbers.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:04 pm to Irons Puppet
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U of Richmond is the shocking one on the list. I always thought it was a commuter school
Nope - it’s an exclusive and expensive private university.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:07 pm to dstone12
Check out Winchester VA if you want to find a southern city in Northern VA.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:11 pm to Farmer1906
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Agreed. SMU is ahead of BU & TCU by a decent amount.
Not when it comes to decent looking women - TCU wins by a country mile over anyone in the state of Texas.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:19 pm to Farmer1906
Needs to be re-ranked based on affordability. The average student cannot afford those private schools at the top without a lot of help.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:31 pm to ClemsonRules
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Nope - it’s an exclusive and expensive private university.
And all or any of the three descriptions doesn't necessarily make it a Top College. Like I said, nothing that I have heard about the school has every grouped it into the elite category. Every State has a private school that due to the cost of tuition makes them exclusive.
Posted on 8/16/19 at 5:56 pm to ClemsonRules
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Not when it comes to decent looking women - TCU wins by a country mile over anyone in the state of Texas.
True.
Unless you have a thing for the whole "Queen of the Trailer Park" look, then Texas Tech is like Mecca.
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