<p>Four universities located in the South/Southwest now stand as legitimate rivals to the Non-HYP Ivies in the competition to attract the top strain of high school applicants. This thread is meant to inform on these four colleges and contrast/compare them with the group of non-HYP Ivies. </p>
<p>I have grouped the four universities-Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt and Duke-into the playful acronym of REVD. The REVD schools themselves are quite different—in fact, their southern location is probably their greatest similarity—and, at one or more of these colleges, there is something for every type of applicant. </p>
<p>So, get all revved up to compare the REVD schools with their better-known peers to the north. What you’re likely to discover is that the REVD colleges offer similar academic strength along with unique institutional attributes that can make for a very distinctive and fulfilling undergraduate experience.</p>
<p>I will provide data on the four most important factors influencing the undergraduate academic experience, ie,</p>
<ol>
<li> Quality of student peers</li>
<li> Size of the classroom in which you learn</li>
<li> Teaching quality and proximity to professors</li>
<li> Institutional resources and a school’s willingness to use them to support undergrads</li>
</ol>
<p>But first, I’ll begin with a few basic bits of information:</p>
<p>LOCATION</p>
<p>Rice (Houston, TX)
Emory (Atlanta, GA)
Vanderbilt (Nashville, TN)
Duke (Durham, NC)</p>
<p>Brown (Providence, RI)
Columbia (New York, NY)
Cornell (Ithaca, NY)
Dartmouth (Hanover, NH)
U Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)</p>
<h1>OF UNDERGRADUATES</h1>
<p>3319 Rice
5268 Emory
6794 Vanderbilt
6578 Duke</p>
<p>6244 Brown
5766 Columbia
13,931 Cornell
4196 Dartmouth
9768 U Penn</p>
<p>TUITION & FEES</p>
<p>$33,771 Rice
$39,158 Emory
$39,932 Vanderbilt
$40,243 Duke</p>
<p>$40,820 Brown
$41,316 Columbia
$39,666 Cornell
$40,607 Dartmouth
$40,514 U Penn</p>