How prestigious is Davidson?

LakeWashington
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:51:43 +0000

As Mattmom said, regional stereotyping detrimentally affects southern colleges. Keep in mind also that it’s only been about a generation or so that the population size of the southern states has become significant. In other words, fewer people lived in the south, thererfore most southern institutions did not have national reputations. Duke Univerity was only established well after the turn of the century. Until a recently, Davidson was just as unknown as Duke was in the 1950s. I always wondered why Richard Nixion matriculated at Duke Law School. Unfair perhaps, but nobody included Duke in their list of elite universities until relatively recently.

Speaking of Davidson athletics, don’t forget basketballer Dick Snyder, one of the best shooting guards ever in the NBA. He was on the 1979 champion Seattle Supersonics.