Except for Miami University Ohio, as @Eeyore123 correctly points out.
For shame. [-X
“original poster may have been interested in knowing what some of the elite southern mid-sized private universities are”
OPs kid is at a premier southern Ivy based on prior posts… .Rice. Smart kid!
OP still wishes his kid had picked Rice or Vandy.
Sorry for my confusion as you posted numerous times about weighing a financial decision between Amherst with little Financial aid and Rice (no mention of Vanderbilt). Combined with this post and numerous Rice follow ups:
“I don’t want to mention names but other choices include a top 20 school with some merit money, very selective honors program at our flagship and full merit rides at two decent local schools. As a high stat NMSF, free education is very much possible”.
I had assumed he had landed at Rice. Just hope he is happy.
No problem. He went with a full ride at last moment, not too happy with the college choice but adjusting fine.
All amazing outcomes and opportunities. Cheers.
Thank you
So you’d think. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve lost track of the number of threads I’ve seen over the years where students say things like “I really love Northwestern’s journalism program and location…but Cornell is an Ivy! I’m so conflicted! PLEASE HELP!”
Regardless, it is always nice to see southern schools get some love. Southern liberal arts colleges especially…I think many people are convinced there are no LACs outside the Northeast and Midwest.
The Ivy League is the Southern Ivy League. There is only one Ivy League. All others who use that term are impostors and wannabes.
And it should be stressed that there are many excellent colleges in the South and elsewhere that do not happen to belong to the Ivy League.
Southern elite school doesn’t care to use this term but news articles do like to revive it from time to time.
Just because it’s in print does not mean that it is right. And by “right,” I mean both definitions - “correct” and “acceptable.” 
“Ivy fever is stupid in itself”
So why bring it up? And other focus on what Ivies and their alums do or don’t do?
The one thing the article had going for it was it was and athletic league of high ranking schools, so like the Ivy league. It wasn’t going to be called the Southern Ivy League but the Magnolia league. It might have worked if the schools all wanted to be in the same division and conform to a set of rules like the Ivies did, but right now those schools are all very different.
Agree that “ivies” isn’t synonymous with “best.” Let’s try to break that stereotype. The best school is the one that is best for you.