If you graduated college in the 90s/00s which schools shocked you with their change in status/competiveness?

[Anonymous]

UVA

[Anonymous]

northeastern

[Anonymous]

The analysis linked below will provide context for these schools:

1. Elon
2. UChicago
3. Ohio State
4. Pitzer
5. UCLA
6. UC–San Diego
7. Boston College
8. SUNY–Stony Brook
9. UPittsburgh
10. Georgia Tech
11. Case Western Reserve
12. Brown
13. UNC–Chapel Hill
14. Notre Dame

https://www.educationnext.org/yes-it-really-is-harder-to-get-into-highly-selective-colleges-today-comparison-sat-scores-over-time/

[Anonymous]

BU. I graduated in 04. It was really hard in my major but the school was filled with some total idiots back then. Loved it though!

[Anonymous]

LOL BU for me. It was the safety for C students at my private school. In CA, UC Berkeley had a 50% acceptance rate and would accept most solid B students. UC San Diego was for dummies. UC Davis was a safety for anyone with Bs and a few Cs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oberlin used to be the top LAC in the midwest. I was shocked to see the change.

Compared to the perception of Oberlin I had in the 1990s, it has indeed seemed to fall off dramatically.

[Anonymous]

Boston U

[Anonymous]

U Penn

[Anonymous]

University of Spoiled Children (USC)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern
Vanderbilt
Any of the SEC schools for OOS kids
NYU
USC (when I took the SATs they were doing the stuff Chicago does now- sending the biggest and most mailings of anyone and generally acting desperate)

Nope. Vanderbilt has been competitive and difficult to get into for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL BU for me. It was the safety for C students at my private school. In CA, UC Berkeley had a 50% acceptance rate and would accept most solid B students. UC San Diego was for dummies. UC Davis was a safety for anyone with Bs and a few Cs.

Troll

[Anonymous]

I graduated college in the 90s. USNWR rankings existed but I don't know anyone who was really aware of them. This was pre-internet so you would need to buy the magazine or go to the library. Pretty much everybody went to a public college except one who went to West Point and one to Princeton.

[Anonymous]

UCLA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many schools that probably still suck despite the hype:

Northeastern
Boston U
Richmond
U Florida
Georgia

Is Northeastern hyped up now? In the 90s it sucked and only people with not the greatest grades went there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Title pretty much sums it up, but when you first started paying attention to college rankings as a parent did you have any moments of shock when once a safety (for many) is now a reach (for many)…off the top of my head Northeastern and UofF come to mind.


Any others?

This never happened for us. I actually learned critical thinking skills during my education.