“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?

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Anonymous wrote:In VA, “hot” schools that are not well ranked are nothing more than places where the kids of privileged people go when the kids get turned down by UVA and/or William and Mary.

Ranked by who?

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GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

But the kids are so miserable...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

Well, MIT is the best engineering school in the country. So you have a point. But it is ranked 4th in the country in engineering. If you are serious about engineering, it is an excellent consolation prize.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

Well, MIT is the best engineering school in the country. So you have a point. But it is ranked 4th in the country in engineering. If you are serious about engineering, it is an excellent consolation prize.

And if you're staying in ATL they actually prefer GT over MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

Well DUH. MIT is the best engineering school in the country with an acceptance rate of about 7%. I don’t know what exactly your point is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From our HS:

Georgia
Indiana
Tulane
VT
Colorado

Interesting. Georgia Tech or UGA? I have a kid at TJ. And they always have a large number of kids admitted to GT Engineering and 1-2 kids who go. Vs. a couple dozen kids who go to each of to Michigan Engineering and Illinois-CU Engineering. And since I have a class of 2020 kids interested in LACs, And not Engineering, I never dig deep enough to figure out why that is? GT is as good, or better, in Engineering. Better financial aid? A desire not to love in the South? Better TJ recruiting? Interested because DH is from GA and I also grew up in the South.

Also interested to hear about hot LACs or small national universities. Especially ones with good merit aid (which knocks out a lot of schools). Oberlin was always on my radar, but College of Wooster, Kenyon and Grinnell look surprisingly good on paper. Very high percent of kids in top PhD programs. Very good undergrad science research. Excellent merit aid. Also Denison, which was scratched of our list for my kid specific reasons. And Davidson, which I knew about since it is a Southern school. It would surprise me if there wasn’t a run on these schools. Anyone?

I’m not sure about the others but Oberlin had a really good year after a lower yield than normal last year. I think they’re currently over enrolled for the class of 2022. I’ve heard similar stories for many NESCAC schools, most of whom didn’t even go to waitlist and are encouraging gap years because too many students accepted their admissions offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt seems inordinately popular!

We were extremely impressed when we visited.

[Anonymous]

Tulane, UC Boulder, NYU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From our HS:

Georgia
Indiana
Tulane
VT
Colorado

The buzz at our kid's school was wtf happened with colorado engineering? They seriously cut back on the direct admits. My kid wasn't interested in a stoner school for rich northeasterners, so once engineering wasn't going to happen, he was done.

Sorry your kid couldn't cut it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From our HS:

Georgia
Indiana
Tulane
VT
Colorado

Interesting. Georgia Tech or UGA? I have a kid at TJ. And they always have a large number of kids admitted to GT Engineering and 1-2 kids who go. Vs. a couple dozen kids who go to each of to Michigan Engineering and Illinois-CU Engineering. And since I have a class of 2020 kids interested in LACs, And not Engineering, I never dig deep enough to figure out why that is? GT is as good, or better, in Engineering. Better financial aid? A desire not to love in the South? Better TJ recruiting? Interested because DH is from GA and I also grew up in the South.

Also interested to hear about hot LACs or small national universities. Especially ones with good merit aid (which knocks out a lot of schools). Oberlin was always on my radar, but College of Wooster, Kenyon and Grinnell look surprisingly good on paper. Very high percent of kids in top PhD programs. Very good undergrad science research. Excellent merit aid. Also Denison, which was scratched of our list for my kid specific reasons. And Davidson, which I knew about since it is a Southern school. It would surprise me if there wasn’t a run on these schools. Anyone?

Your kid goes to TJ and you write like this?

Also, when someone says Georgia they always mean Georgia, not Georgia Tech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tulane, UC Boulder, NYU.

Huge surge in applications at NYU. Went from 35% admit rate in 2016 to 28% in 2017 to 19% this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt seems inordinately popular!

As does USC (S. Carolina).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

Well, MIT is the best engineering school in the country. So you have a point. But it is ranked 4th in the country in engineering. If you are serious about engineering, it is an excellent consolation prize.

GT has the best aerospace engineering program in the U.S. It's almost impossible to get into, especially OOS

[Anonymous]

The women’s colleges seem to be experiencing a surge in interest and applications. Mount Holyoke, Smith, Bryan Mawr.