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That's a different story, I was just thinking academics. Just major sports or total athletic program (Stanford and USC absolutely kill it in smaller sports like tennis)

How US News ranks them: Stanford (7) Duke (8) Northwestern (10) Vandy (14) Rice (16) (who knew?) USC (22) BC (38) Tulane (44) (I call bs) UM (53) SMU (59) Pitt (70) (worse than FSU, embarrassing, also, as mentioned above, not private) Temple (106) TCU should also probably be in there.

Without looking at rankings, here is my gut based on people I know from those schools. Even as an alum, I once told a mother whose daughter was choosing between Johns Hopkins and Miami that, "Miami isn't a very good school." I didn't realize her daughter had already decided to attend Miami...