<p>That depends on the regional and ethnic demography of students typically attending the school along with the atmosphere of the school itself. Vandy’s campus still somewhat attracts the well-off southern-white crowd. They often get the stereotypical pretty southern blonde white women for example. We, at Emory, for example, attract many more Asians (will include Indian/Middle Eastern students here in this case), and Jewish students. Normally, such students are not considered attractive by American/European standards of beauty which are well entrenched in society. I’d imagine that USC tends to attract a lot of California students, many of which, are probably very attractive (whether it’s “real” or not is a different story). In California, attractiveness is perhaps extremely important to a social life. But no, be serious dude. Vandy does not admit based upon such criteria. It’s rediculous. It’s a southern feeling campus (this certainly holds in terms of architecture and location. Other than the forestry, our campus for example, isn’t really southern at all. The architecture we have here isn’t even typical for any college campus for that matter, and certainly doesn’t fit with the southeast well. Seems out of place almost. Not welcoming to usual “southerners” that would rather attend top state schools or more southern feeling schools like Vandy) with the remnants a traditional southern crowd. What I mean is, that here, for example, even those coming from the Southeast are going to be more ethnically diverse than those at Vandy, as we tend to attract many Asian Americans who happen to live in metro Atlanta. Many of our southern students are not white and blonde. Even most of our white students overall are in fact Jewish. Vandy is indeed analogous to the issue at USC with USC still having a traditional California (southern cali. at that) crowd and feel.<br>
I bet the attractiveness of students would also correlate with the presence of big time sports for some reason. I guess that would makes sense.</p>
<p>I gladly provided you with my opinion, but I believe you are worried about the wrong thing. I hope this is a joke. Hopefully you take your consideration of Vandy as a choice more seriously than implied by your post.</p>