Which universities have gone DOWN in stature over the years?

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Anonymous wrote:Sad to say most colleges in flyover country are losing steam. Kids don't want to deal with the crummy weather and don't see the point of going to college in a region they don't see themselves in after college. The only stable university in Michigan is the state flagship, UMich. Wow just wow, look at those losses.

Those colleges are losing enrollment due to being regional public universities, which have been hit hard with budget cuts and little to no research funding or alumni donations to replace it.

Large public flagships in the Midwest like Purdue and Indiana are doing fine, even improving in popularity. Same goes for private research universities like Case Western, Northwestern and U. Chicago.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad to say most colleges in flyover country are losing steam. Kids don't want to deal with the crummy weather and don't see the point of going to college in a region they don't see themselves in after college. The only stable university in Michigan is the state flagship, UMich. Wow just wow, look at those losses.

Those colleges are losing enrollment due to being regional public universities, which have been hit hard with budget cuts and little to no research funding or alumni donations to replace it.

Large public flagships in the Midwest like Purdue and Indiana are doing fine, even improving in popularity. Same goes for private research universities like Case Western, Northwestern and U. Chicago.

That is why, but also because their tuition prices are too close in price to MSU or UMich without even close to comparable prestige. But they cannot afford, like you stated, to plummet tuition, because of budget cuts.

There also aren’t enough college-age michiganders to fill those universities, and the ones that can can probably go to a small private with discounts for a better experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Berkeley and Cornell have gone down.

Columbia, Hopkins, U Chicago, Stanford, Rice, MIT, CalTech came up.

Oh, you! First by assuming "stature" is a thing that matters and can be put on a scale. Second by starting your list with "Harvard" which literally has been the generic term for the #1 college since it's inception in 1636.

You silly person! Just stop!

Brown, Dartmouth, Berkeley down. Cornell down too (just look at rankings)

UP: JHU, Stanford and Chicago

You silly, silly person!

First, rankings don't matter. But if they did:

Brown has bounced between 10-17 consistently since the inception of USN.
Dartmouth between 6-12
Berkeley between 13-22
Cornell between 11-16 (with one outlier year at 6)

This is out of 3,000 colleges.

You are, as they used to say in my neighborhood, talking out of your ass.

Dartmouth has actually fallen out of the top 10, and Cornell is now ranked below Vanderbilt, JHU, etc.

This is where you double down on silly.

You think that when minor statistical numbers for 3,000 colleges change which cause a university's ranking to change from 9 to 12 is significant in some way.

That's ridiculous.

Dartmouth has been ranked 9, 10, 11 or 12 every year since 1999. Just around the time USN startled ranking comprehensively.

You continue to be very very silly. Stop.

Does anyone care about the bottom 2,750? Does a kid considering any school in the top 30 or a company recruiting on campuses at flagships and T20s even acknowledge whatever schools is ranked 2,8750?

Snob. Your type is dying out.

The PP is right though. The top kids just don’t care about the bottom of the pack, heck even the middle of the pack. They don’t know and don’t care about the 3000 other colleges in the USA. And why should they?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA sucks and C'Ville is a dump. Everyone there is a racist southern alcoholic that parties everyday, encourage all kids to not apply.

Well you clearly have never been to either UVA or Charlottesville…

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The first school that comes to mind is Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:The first school that comes to mind is Georgetown

LOL, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first school that comes to mind is Georgetown

It is not a good luck when you are all over the internet with posts about rats, mold, and other failing maintenance issues.

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Brown and Dartmouth

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Anonymous wrote:The first school that comes to mind is Georgetown

It is not a good luck when you are all over the internet with posts about rats, mold, and other failing maintenance issues.

This is true. The buildings are as outdated as the leadership. The undergraduate experience rewards elitism and snobbery. Having connections is what GU promotes. Connections are good but they won’t get you far. A degree from Georgetown is called a receipt.

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Anonymous wrote:The first school that comes to mind is Georgetown

LOL, no.

You must surround yourself with a nice crowd because no one has told you to your face.

[Anonymous]

Notre Dame, Georgetown, Tulane, flyover state schools (Iowa, Arizona), GWU, U. Miami, liberal arts schools outside of the top 10 (many will die soon)