 The Honors College at Ole Miss is phenomenal, and the Croft Institute, and the Lott Leadership Institute. Whatever you want academically is available almost everywhere you are, but there's some places that have a different reputation. Tulane is one of those places. In the same way that Vanderbilt is, and that Duke is, and that Northwestern is. Usually it's with private schools, and you have some academic types who think that you can't be elite academically and elite athletically