“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?

[Anonymous]

Bates had a huge jump in applications, I think they went up 45% and admit rate went way down as a result.

[Anonymous]

U of RICHMOND.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Interesting. I know that it’s way better than Maryland’s.

[Anonymous]

NYU
Davidson
Macalester
Pitzer
Occidental
Reed
USC

Lots of interest of going west!

[Anonymous]

Trending away from East Coast:

Tulane
Auburn
Clemson

Denison
Kenyon
Wooster

USC
Occidental
Santa Barbara

[Anonymous]

Purdue is popular for Engineering. I know a few each year in NOVA the turn down Tech for it and a few that go because they could not get to not Tech. More apply every year from our highschool. They have a much more collaborative program and Tech is still preaching every man for himself.

[Anonymous]

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.

This is not only untrue, it's also obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Interesting. I know that it’s way better than M arylands .

Not way better . M arylands is ranked 9th in the country .

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-aerospace-aeronautical-astronautical

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Why, one wonders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYU
Davidson
Macalester
Pitzer
Occidental
Reed
USC

Lots of interest of going west!

Going west for these two powerfully second rate CA schools on your list and one that is vastly overrated and still has an inferiority complex?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bates had a huge jump in applications, I think they went up 45% and admit rate went way down as a result.

How odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bates had a huge jump in applications, I think they went up 45% and admit rate went way down as a result.

How odd.

It's test optional. Probably a big draw.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt seems inordinately popular!

As does USC (S. Carolina).

USC (S. Carolina) surprises me every year - but USC gives LOTS of merit aid to kids in the donut hole - so it shouldn't be that surprising.

[Anonymous]

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

Good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Purdue is another very good aerospace engineering program (and good in many other disciplines as well).