Tallahassee to DC is a third of the coast, yet it's called the the Atlantic Coast Conference, why? Shouldn't it be called the Northern 2/3 of the Southern Half of the Atlantic Coast Conference? Everyone seems to agree NCSU and Clemson are redneck type schools that don't help the ACC's reputation, Clemson in the middle of nowhere in the south, 89% white, and has 15 NCAA violations per year. Wake is in the middle of nowhere in the south, 88% white, just 3% asian or hispanic or native american and 1% international, about half the students join frats or sororities, and majority are southerners not smart enough for Duke or Emory or other similarly priced schools, all that may indicate that the percentage of reactionary bigots may be somewhat higher there and at Clemson and NCSU than at other div.IA private schools or other schools in ACC and elsewhere, which is not to say that most are that way. Prestige is largely a measure of academic rep and selectivity, BC has 20000 applicants per year and 9000 students, and Wake has just 5000 applicants and 4000 students plus inferior sports, location, selectivity, and academic rep, etc. US News rankings criteria change every year because the few editors that come up with them want to sell magazines plus they are clearly biased towards small schools regardless of whether anyone has heard of them or not, but academic reputation scores are fairly constant and reflect the opinion of thousands of university presidents, administrators, etc. According to usnews.com, academic reps of Wake, NCSU, and Clemson, are all worse than reps of Duke, UNC, UVA, UMD, GT Penn State, and BC, and about the same or worse than Miami, Syracuse, and FSU.
<small>[ July 17, 2002, 01:44 PM: Message edited by: BlueDevil ]</small>
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