Schools more difficult to get in than their rankings appear to indicate

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Anonymous wrote:As for the talk about Vanderbilt, it’s tough admit shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s a simple combination of great academics, great social scene, great city, and increasingly good sports. Basically, it’s has it all in a great environment. The recent slippage in the ratings is a shrug. Also, it hadn’t had the political craziness that many elite campuses in the NE have experienced.

Upthread, there was a comparison to Duke. While Duke has a great campus, academics, and basketball team, Durham is terrible and the campus is segregated from the city. Also, while old campus is very collegiate, but the rest of campus feels very corporate. Not a great vibe.

It’s astonishing that Vandy has gone from an acceptance rate of 70% 35 years ago to less than 5% now. Wow.

Vanderbilt has that hard to find combination of urban, warm weather, athletics, Greek life, and prestige. Hard to beat.

Yes, and it is not dominated by Asians and Internationals. Look at their accepted student Instagram--it is an entirely different demographic then any other top20 school.

Similar look at Notre Dame, which is (unfortunately, IMO) only 9% Asian American and 8% international. But I suppose there aren't a huge number of Catholic Asian Americans?

Almost all LACs are like Vanderbilt, less than 20% Asian (except the ones in California).
If you cannot compete with Asian, consider LACs, or Vanderbilt, or Notre Dame. :P

I’ll bite! as the parent of a current very high stats and — this is the key — well round Vanderbilt student. Vanderbilt is not looking for grinders and box checkers (1st chair violin? Check! Fencing regional placement? Check! 4.0 unweighted vs. 3.86? Check! Natl debate regional winner?)

They do a good job in sniffing out natural leaders vs tiger-mommed grinders with impeccable and highly predictable portfolios

these things are accomplishments, not predictable portfolios. These are things kids earned through hard work and competence. Vandy wants full pay, ED kids --- TO is fine!

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Anonymous wrote:As for the talk about Vanderbilt, it’s tough admit shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s a simple combination of great academics, great social scene, great city, and increasingly good sports. Basically, it’s has it all in a great environment. The recent slippage in the ratings is a shrug. Also, it hadn’t had the political craziness that many elite campuses in the NE have experienced.

Upthread, there was a comparison to Duke. While Duke has a great campus, academics, and basketball team, Durham is terrible and the campus is segregated from the city. Also, while old campus is very collegiate, but the rest of campus feels very corporate. Not a great vibe.

It’s astonishing that Vandy has gone from an acceptance rate of 70% 35 years ago to less than 5% now. Wow.

Vanderbilt has that hard to find combination of urban, warm weather, athletics, Greek life, and prestige. Hard to beat.

Yes, and it is not dominated by Asians and Internationals. Look at their accepted student Instagram--it is an entirely different demographic then any other top20 school.

Similar look at Notre Dame, which is (unfortunately, IMO) only 9% Asian American and 8% international. But I suppose there aren't a huge number of Catholic Asian Americans?

Almost all LACs are like Vanderbilt, less than 20% Asian (except the ones in California).
If you cannot compete with Asian, consider LACs, or Vanderbilt, or Notre Dame. :P

I’ll bite! as the parent of a current very high stats and — this is the key — well round Vanderbilt student. Vanderbilt is not looking for grinders and box checkers (1st chair violin? Check! Fencing regional placement? Check! 4.0 unweighted vs. 3.86? Check! Natl debate regional winner?)

They do a good job in sniffing out natural leaders vs tiger-mommed grinders with impeccable and highly predictable portfolios

Vandy does not place well in public leadership like the ivies do - esp in the northeast corridor

Penn, which is full of gunners and grinders, has way more leaders in the public and private sector….

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Almost every single college mentioned has an amazing ranking.

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Anonymous wrote:Rank of 90 is good for such a new program. Gatech's Neuroscience program is ranked 305, and its been around for a while now.

Dude had to dig down into Neuroscience to go at Tech. As if anyone gives a sh*t. lol

Congrats on your second tier school, 3rd best in the state of Georgia.

lol Huh?

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-tech-tops-list-best-college-georgia-emory-uga-follow

https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges/s/georgia/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1js3k6p/20250326_the_new_ivies_2025_20_great_colleges/

Niche thats pathetic. Also public new ivys don't mean much of anything.

Niche is a good site.

Its the least reliable college ranking site, seemingly why its the only one where Gatech ranks first in the state in.

People in the west think Georgia Tech is the top school in Georgia.

The whole country knows this. It's just this one UGA poster who has a huge inferiority complex and shows up in any thread mentioning Gtech. Still can't show one overall ranking to substantiate the delusion.

You're embarrassing, the top school in Georgia is Emory. By a lot. Before the ranking redesign, Gatech was ranked 38, and UGA 40 on US news. They are seemingly peer schools.

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Most people who live in GA are grateful to have have two great in-state public options and don’t care where they’re ranked. People in the DMV seemed more fixated on where UGA and Ga Tech rank.

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Anonymous wrote:DP. Georgia Tech is good at engineering. That's about it. For everything else, UGA.

You keep saying this and I believe in you mind you actually believe it. But, we are all still waiting for you independent source.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people who live in GA are grateful to have have two great in-state public options and don’t care where they’re ranked. People in the DMV seemed more fixated on where UGA and Ga Tech rank.

No, it's just the one weird UGA poster that keeps insensibly raging against GTech. But I'm guessing you are right, probably not even from Georgia.

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Uga is getting a medical school next year, they'll be the second best school in Georgia very soon, especially when you consider where the tech industry is headed. Gatech spent way too much time gloating instead of looking for ways to catch up to Emory, now its about to be bumped to third.

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Anonymous wrote:Uga is getting a medical school next year, they'll be the second best school in Georgia very soon, especially when you consider where the tech industry is headed. Gatech spent way too much time gloating instead of looking for ways to catch up to Emory, now its about to be bumped to third.

lol We are still waiting.

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Every fall on these boards I watch people comment how VT is a safety school for their kid and by December there is wailing and gnashing of teeth wondering how VT could have rejected their kid with the 5.9 GPA, or whatever. It's an annual holiday tradition.

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Anonymous wrote:Uga is getting a medical school next year, they'll be the second best school in Georgia very soon, especially when you consider where the tech industry is headed. Gatech spent way too much time gloating instead of looking for ways to catch up to Emory, now its about to be bumped to third.

lol We are still waiting.

12 months is right around the corner.

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Anonymous wrote:Uga is getting a medical school next year, they'll be the second best school in Georgia very soon, especially when you consider where the tech industry is headed. Gatech spent way too much time gloating instead of looking for ways to catch up to Emory, now its about to be bumped to third.

GT just sitting on their hands and "gloating".

https://saportareport.com/georgia-tech-shaping-atlantas-future-as-top-tech-hub/thought-leadership/higher-education/georgia-institute-of-technology/

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Georgia Tech is considered a relatively cheap OOS engineering school. It’s popular among NC students, they allow students to graduate in 2.5-3 years with lots of AP credits. Every year many NCSSM students apply to it.

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Many state flagships for OOS students

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No one has mentioned Emory as being harder to get into than perceived yet. But yes Emory. I remember not too long ago, maybe 2016 where a 1450 at Emory meant you had a chance at the smaller scholarships. Now a 1550 doesn't even guarantee a waitlist.

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