<p>Um I just consulted the Princeton Review so that I could use the same source for each school.</p>
<p>Exactly. Thats the whole student body – not the incoming class. AND it’s old info.</p>
<p>What if Vandy, Northwestern, Wake Forest, and WUSTL are also improving? Chances are they all are since more people are going to college than ever and space is getting tight at the better schools.</p>
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<p>Thanks for calling me ignorant, but after living on the east coast for nearly 21 years, and having friends everywhere on the east coast, I can say with confidence that almost no one knows SMU.</p>
<p>Would you three please take your bickering elsewhere? This was an interesting thread until the battle over SMU. </p>
<p>And, I live on the east coast and have most certainly heard of SMU. Almost everyone I know has, too. </p>
<p>Knock it off, please.</p>
<p>Good idea.</p>
<p>What about pepperdine? I don’t know if that one has been mentioned.</p>
<p>I don’t know much people who know a lot about SMU. I have heard it once on a thread, but that’s it. I consider Florida the east coast, but it is not the South. I lived in South Florida for 10 years and no one ever said “Y’all.” You move to Georgia and it’s a cultural shock, lol. I mentioned Pepperdine before and some others. It’s hard to know what others have said.</p>
<p>whoever posted those states about OOS students should consider the state SMU is in (Texas). Texas is very large compared to North Carolina, Illinois, Tennessee, Massachussetts, and Missouri. This is similar in California. Stanford has 60% OOS. And in Texas, I think Rice is around 50% OOS. </p>
<p>So, does this mean Stanford, Rice, and SMU are not national, diverse universities? No! Since Texas is so large, the incoming students just from Texas would be very diverse, just like in California. As someone told me about Rice, “you’d never know there were that many Texans here until you start asking around.”</p>
<p>Illinois isn’t a large state? Chicago is one of only 4 towns that are bigger than the Dallas area. North Carolina and Massachusetts are both around 10 million as well. Not as huge as Texas, but still.</p>
<p>Texas is twice as big.</p>
<p>UCSB or Westmont College.</p>
<p>MA: Boston College, Wellesley
RI: Salve Regina, Providence
NH: Dartmouth
NJ: Princeton
NY: NYU, Skidmore, CW Post of LIU, Hunter, Sarah Lawrence
MD: Georgetown, Loyola
PA: Haverford, Villanova, Bryn Mawr, Rosemont, Swarthmore, Immaculata, Saint Joseph’s, Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
FL: UMiami,
IL: Lake Forest, Northwestern
MO: WUSTL
NC: Davidson, UNC-CH, Wake Forest
SC: CofC
VA: W&M
GA: Emory
TX: Rice, SMU
LA: Tulane
OK: UO
CA: Pepperdine, UCSB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, Stanford, Caltech, Westmont</p>
<p>Anyone want to add more or refute any of these?</p>
<p>I remember when we played against Lake Forest’s Baseball team. They had all of the latest gear and equipment. And on the way to their field, there were mansions everywhere. And not the crappy McMansions.</p>
<p>*Anyone want to add more or refute any of these? *</p>
<p>I’ll refute UCSB somewhat. The campus of UCSB is about 12 miles from central Santa Barbara. Just as a comparison, UCLA is about 12 miles from Inglewood, but I don’t see people judging UCLA on the merits of Inglewood. </p>
<p>The immediate areas around campus are Goleta and Isla Vista. While both are expensive places to live, they aren’t “rich” areas in the traditional sense, and Isla Vista is actually pretty poor, filled with students sharing rooms and poor Hispanic service workers.</p>