@NJDad68 - My point was that 30 years ago, Tulane and Emory were in the same place, chasing Duke and Vanderbilt as the best private universities in the south. Today, Emory has has gotten very close to those schools, while Tulane is in the same relatively position they were a few decades ago.
One set of schools that I am surprised is not doing better is the Texas privates. Given the strong growth of that state, one would expect schools like Rice, SMU, TCU and Baylor to move up in the rankings.