For fun: If this school was in the Northeast, it would be...

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<p>Boston = Palo Alto?
Princeton = Palo Alto?
However, agreed size is difference.</p>

<p>Understand about Cal and budgets and Harvard. Sorry state of affairs out here.</p>

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<p>Scripps would be Smith, Reed would be St. John’s or Swat, and New College of Florida would be Marlboro or Bennington.</p>

<p>By the way… great thread, carolyn :)</p>

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<p>I don’t know about Chapman and Ithaca…I would say that Chapman is more like Bard. </p>

<p>U of San Diego/U of Maryland Baltimore County</p>

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<p>Fun thread. Useful too. You beat me to it, LL, with Scripps = Smith.</p>

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<p>In mulling this over, it has become apparent to me that that the big, academically-strong, STATE research universities such as the UCs, UW, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. for the most part don’t have corresponding schools in the Northeast. They wouldn’t be anything. The northeast has some Stanfords, but it doesn’t have a Berkeley. The strong research universities in the Northeast are nearly all private.</p>

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<p>Coureur, I think the reason why is obvious: If you already have a Yale, a Harvard, a Princeton firmly in place for a couple of centuries, why would a state want to invest in reinventing the wheel for the masses? Whereas, out here in California and in the Midwest, the state universities were set up within the past 100-150 years in places where there were no real alternatives.</p>

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<p>Thumper, I’ll take your word for it about chapman and Bard. If that is the case, then my daughter will probably love Chapman. Let’s hope. I’d like her to have at least ONE school within driving distance!</p>

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<p>Because the masses vote and don’t go to HYP. Actually Uconn is making a move and PSU and Rutgers have been close to the midwest models. RU just dropped the ball on the campus design and unity. They wanted to still seem like a private until it was too late. Now they have a sprawling mess.</p>

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<p>Stanford would still be Junior University (as in Leland Stanford Junior University) LOL</p>

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<p>Carolyn:</p>

<p>Santa Barbara would be zoo-Mass. LOL</p>

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<p>This is fun thanks.</p>

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<p>UCSB = UMass plus Woods Hole.</p>

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<p>I’m changing my mind…U of San Diego/Holy Cross</p>

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<p>Alumother -</p>

<p>I think Stanford makes a better Harvard or Yale than it does a Princeton, because Princeton always boasts that it doesn’t have medical, law, or business schools. But HY & S all boast that they do.</p>

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<p>In the small geographic area from Philly/PA to New England, you also have at least 30 small undergrad colleges. With an average enrollment of 2,000 or so, that’s 50,000 to 60,000 undergrads in any given year. Most of these colleges have been a visible part of the higher education landscape in the northeast for a century or more.</p>

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<p>Stanford would be MIT and Harvard combined.
UC Berkeley would be MIT and Harvard combined.</p>

<p><em>ok, shoot me</em></p>

<p>wouldn’t Oberlin be Bard?</p>

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WPI will be calling coureur to find out where to send the bouquet…</p>

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<p>Actually Harvard is the University of Chicago of the Northeast.</p>

<p>The University of Texas at Austin is the SUNY Ithaca of the northeast aka Cornell.</p>

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<p>And Harvey will be calling to find out where to send the Mud.</p>

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<p>OK - Stanford is Harvard plus MIT. But somebody plant some more trees in Boston, please.</p>

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<p>I know this is all in fun, but…sorry folks, location is a huge part of the culture of a school. If you take Berkeley out of Berkeley, you don’t have Berkeley anymore…or Columbia out of NYC. If you take Williams out of Williamstown and plop it down in the mother lode of California near ski areas you will have another beast! When choosing colleges, location should play a factor in selection. I mean Bard is absolutely fabulous sitting on the Hudson River like it does with all those trees and paths. The school fits its place. And USC, however much it is derided for its location… not to mention that when it was founded the location was the civic center of LA with its wide avenues and parks…USC is enhanced by the incredibly rich multicultural feel of the campus and surrounding area not to mention perfect weather. Take little Lawrence University sitting in Northeast Wisconsin, if it had been moved to the Northeast of the USA, my son wouldn’t have applied. Different strokes they say…and that includes the colleges and universities themselves and the students who will apply. That is why visiting these places is one of the most important things you can do in the college process.</p>