<p>D looked at this school because of what I heard on this forum. If you are full paying fare, ie you don’t qualify for financial aid then Rhodes might be better than Ivies because they give some form of merit aid. I read some books, ISI, not CTCL, and it praises Rhodes academic better than Dartmouth and Brown. In addition, the campus is beautiful like Oxford University(which is why my daughter is interested). Rhodes also has an excellent study abroad program, something my daughter wants to go abroad junior year. However, when she looked at the DVD that we ordered, she was a bit turned off by the heavy Southern accent of most students there. Mind you, she has nothing against the Southern accent but it seems like it draws most students from the South, so it’s maybe not be diversed. That was the reason why she did not apply.</p>