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Which schools are becoming more popular? Any surprises?
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Anonymous
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UMass. Probably mainly due to CS but also more broadly.
UGA. Georgia Tech. Davidson. Macalester. |
Anonymous
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Here are the ones I see rising in popularity. By that, I mean are schools that are getting a lot of national attention now but might have been more regional a few years back. For instance, Tennessee has always been a good school but only in the past few years has drawn significant national and international applications. Mostly these are large state schools but there are some private ones I see sharply rising. I haven’t included schools like Wisconsin which have always had a good national draw.
Tennessee Indiana Oregon Marquette Auburn Oregon State Colorado Trinity (Texas) Connecticut Colorado College Lewis & Clark University of San Diego Denison UCSC There are others but these are the ones that jump to mind. |
Anonymous
| Wake Forest. A lot of kids are on pins and needles waiting for decisions. |
Anonymous
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More kids from my DC's school are applying to schools in the South and Southeast:
Duke Davidson Wake Forest Richmond UT Austin Trinity University Baylor Texas A&M William & Mary UVA Vanderbilt Emory It's interesting to see a big drop this year in demand for the Catholic colleges (we are at a Catholic school). |
Anonymous
| I agree that northeast schools are less popular. It has me worried for New England (I love New England). But it seems like the new rust belt, minus the factories. I was visiting friends this past summer and the region felt very depressed economically. |
Anonymous
Only partially true as most important factors were aggressive marketing and tuition discounts labeled as merit scholarships to lure and buy donut hole families. |
Anonymous
Yeah and not in Oakland or at some tiny London campus. |
Anonymous
| It seems lots of people are trying to head to Rice, UT Austin, Baylor, SMU and A&M because weather is good during school year, low cost of living, ease of access to multiple airports, affordable housing, easier to get internships and jobs at top companies, lots of pre-med opportunities to strengthen resume AND lots of med schools legally bound to prioritize Texas residents for admissions and clinical residency programs. |
Anonymous
This is my pick, too. |
Anonymous
Agree, no one at our private accepted an offer from NE last year. A cycle ro two ago, they were getting two or three kids a year. Hard to stay hot forever. |
Anonymous
The schools in New England would become more popular if they stopped being such utterly grim places. They have become completely exhausting educational factories where the administrators have issued kill-on-sight orders for anything approaching “fun,” and the academic discourse has turned into an ideological gulag. |
Anonymous
Yes, PP here, I definitely agree with that as well. |
Anonymous
| UMD from NOVA. |
Anonymous
Very much this. I went to college in New England. Neither of my kids - boys - had any interested at all in going to school in New England. Grim ideological gulags is exactly right. It had no appeal to them at all. They both go to school in the South now. And are very happy. |
Anonymous
| Since boom of internet and easy access to information, college monopoly has loosened. |