Care to play a Friday afternoon college analogy game?

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As I’ve learned more about colleges through CC I sometimes try to (roughly) equate schools in different states to each other using good 'ole analogies (which I think, btw, are not longer on the SAT?).

By ‘equate’ I mean they attract similar student types, plus they are generally same size, reputation and selectivity…

Anyway, if you care to play add your own! And, remember, this is for fun and hopefully a little insight so let’s not get too serious here. Finally, using less well known colleges would make this more interesting, IMHO.

An easy one to start:

UNC is to NC is like UVA is to Virginia.

And, perhaps:

App State is to NC is like James Madison is to Virginia

And,

Bucknell is to PA like Wake Forest is to NC (??)

Finally,

Franklin & Marshall is to PA like University of Richmond is to VA

So, what are your college analogies, oh wise CC pros? And feel to use 3 colleges if you want to level up!

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University of Washington is to Washington as University of Michigan is to Michigan and University of Texas at Austin is to Texas.

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So App State attracts the same type of student as JMU?

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Yes, that is my supposition!

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UA/ASU/NAU are to Arizona as UI/ISU/UNI are to Iowa.

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U Mass Amherst is to Amherst as U Mass Dartmouth is to Dartmouth.

I’m sure there are more of these: USD is to UCSD as USF is to UCSF.

Faber is to Emily Dickinson as Dartmouth is to Mount Holyoke.

Tufts is to Brown as Arcadia is to Ursinus. (Sorry)

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And U Mass Boston is to Boston College.

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Virginia Tech in Virginia
NC State in North Carolina
Clemson in South Carolina
Auburn in Alabama
Michigan State in Michigan , etc.

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@JBSeattle , University of Michigan is Michigan. Did you mean Michigan State?

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Pomona is to California as Harvard is to Mass (Pomona of the east).
Evergreen St is to Washington what Humboldt St is to California
Miami Ohio and Miami Florida

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@Marilyn
No, University of Michigan is to the state of Michigan what those other schools are to their respective states.

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Ah, got it. Not really clear as there seem to be two different kinds of analogies going. You were talking about the flagship public university in each state being analogous to each other.

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Re: #7

Wouldn’t “Purdue in Indiana” match better than “Michigan State in Michigan” in that list (of “engineering flagships”)?

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@ucbalumnus Purdue in Indiana also fits in that list with Michigan State in Michigan. That Is why I said etc. These are all land- grant universities and there are many of them, including Purdue.

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Apparently there are over 100 land grant universities, so not really analogies at this point.

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@Marilyn, The OP is interested in how to “equate schools in different states” and said to “feel free to use three colleges.” So, since you object to my example , I will keep it to 3 colleges (as was done in post #1 in regard to flagships).

Virginia Tech is to Virginia as NC State is to North Carolina as Clemson is to South Carolina. They are all land-grants that are not the flagship universities in their state (which are UVA, UNC, USC).

Many land–grant universities are also the state flagship (Wisconsin, Connecticut, for example). My examples in #7 were land–grants that are not the flagship in their state.

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@sevmom , I didn’t object to your list; just didn’t see an analogy. Someone else thought they were supposed to be engineering flagships, then you said they were land grants, then you said they were land grants that were not flagships. Seems like more of a categorization than an analogy if that’s the only commonality.

But it’s only a game after all.

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SMU is to Texas as USC is to CA.