What colleges are falling out of fashion?

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown is falling fast. It’s in really bad shape, application is a pain the a$$ and many kids who would have pursued it in past (including mine) are now passing. It was my dream school so this makes me sad. It’s also very close to our home so wish one of my kids had wanted to go there.

They just can't keep up financially. Sad at this point.

Oh look, two bitter PPs who can't afford private tuition. Which public degree mills did you and your children attend?

Uh... yikes.

but perhaps some truth there ...

No, not at all. I've seen http://www.instagram.com/georgetown.hotmess and graduated from a private school that's more selective, more prestigious, and universally higher-ranked than Georgetown. That was just a pathetic, insecure, dreadfully pretentious response. Although, what do you expect from a Georgetown grad?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know that SLACs are falling out of favor. DC first focused on mid-sized universities but after all the visits, narrowed down the final list to almost entirely on SLACS.

Was admitted ED at Colby where the admit rate has fallen from 16% a few years ago to 9% last year.

I hope your DC can handle cold, dark late fall through early spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Caltech in terms of undergrad. Grad school-wise still a stellar institution. Have been dropping in college rankings since the 90s.

Sure tons of mediocre kids get in there, it's practically a safety school now

It ranks with JHU, T15.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown is falling fast. It’s in really bad shape, application is a pain the a$$ and many kids who would have pursued it in past (including mine) are now passing. It was my dream school so this makes me sad. It’s also very close to our home so wish one of my kids had wanted to go there.

They just can't keep up financially. Sad at this point.

Oh look, two bitter PPs who can't afford private tuition. Which public degree mills did you and your children attend?

Uh... yikes.

but perhaps some truth there ...

No, not at all. I've seen http://www.instagram.com/georgetown.hotmess and graduated from a private school that's more selective, more prestigious, and universally higher-ranked than Georgetown. That was just a pathetic, insecure, dreadfully pretentious response. Although, what do you expect from a Georgetown grad?

Let me guess...Notre Dame? There's another thread about their endowment, which is up over $20B this year. Georgetown still under $3B. Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of rural LACs don’t hold as much appeal as they did in my day (1980s)- kids today are more used to going out for sushi, good meals, instagramming photos in front of colorful outdoor murals, etc and less want to be in a town where a drive thru McDonalds is the highlight. The Ohio and PA LACs are taking the first hit but eventually may spread to the NE ones, too. It also shows in rising popularity of colleges like Northeastern, Temple, College of Charleston, etc.

My kid seemed drawn to the pace of such backwaters. She gets her fix of Bethesda when she comes home but chose the bucolic as an ideal setting for learning and living stress free in a closed community of like minded young people I think.

Hahahahah. The cosmopolitan DC suburb.

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Anonymous wrote:Caltech in terms of undergrad. Grad school-wise still a stellar institution. Have been dropping in college rankings since the 90s.

Sure tons of mediocre kids get in there, it's practically a safety school now

It ranks with JHU, T15.

Do you guys make up numbers now? What happened to T20?

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Anonymous wrote:Caltech in terms of undergrad. Grad school-wise still a stellar institution. Have been dropping in college rankings since the 90s.

Sure tons of mediocre kids get in there, it's practically a safety school now

It ranks with JHU, T15.

Do you guys make up numbers now? What happened to T20?

It went the way of the T25, since UCLA is listed as a T20 school. Can’t have that!

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, Dartmouth, Rice, W&M and Berkeley

What is your assessment of Berkeley based on?

The only sense I can think of in which Berkeley has fallen out of fashion is it is behind UCLA in USNWR. That would have been completely unthinkable before, and I still don't buy it.

The other schools are all fine schools and the poster is probably one of those that thinks only large schools doing big research are good for undergraduate study.

I hate the college hate here. But I think Berkeley is suffering because it has an ultra-selective, somewhat random admissions process and makes it hard for students to graduate in four years. It’s obviously a great value for low-income California kids who get in and can’t go for less elsewhere. But it seems as if most other high-stats kids would be better off going somewhere like Indiana University, or a private school with great merit aid.

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Bowdoin- too white and bland

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Anonymous wrote:Bowdoin- too white and bland

Bowdoin has surpassed all of the NESCACs for low acceptance rate and high yield (actually, it has the highest yield of any SLAC). Students there now routinely turn down the more famous Amherst/Williams, which was unheard of before.

Definitely not going out of fashion

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We are at a private in Baltimore. The head college counselor said that rural schools in general are falling out of fashion while suburban/urban schools becoming more popular. This was a very general statement about a trend he’s seen. I’m sure there are plenty of outliers.

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Amherst/Williams just because of location.

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Anonymous wrote:Barbizon

This made me spit my coffee out. My family's joke when I applied to college was that I could always go to Barbizon Beauty Academy or Apex Tech. Apex being more desirable because you got a free set of tools when you graduate.

(this may be understandable to those of us who grew up in the Tri-state area)

Memories. Thank you to the poster who mentioned this

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of rural LACs don’t hold as much appeal as they did in my day (1980s)- kids today are more used to going out for sushi, good meals, instagramming photos in front of colorful outdoor murals, etc and less want to be in a town where a drive thru McDonalds is the highlight. The Ohio and PA LACs are taking the first hit but eventually may spread to the NE ones, too. It also shows in rising popularity of colleges like Northeastern, Temple, College of Charleston, etc.

My kid seemed drawn to the pace of such backwaters. She gets her fix of Bethesda when she comes home but chose the bucolic as an ideal setting for learning and living stress free in a closed community of like minded young people I think.

Hahahahah. The cosmopolitan DC suburb.

Hysterical! Bethesda is just so cosmoploitan LOL!

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Just because you spent a long week-end in the Village in college doesn’t really make you a judge