Which universities have gone DOWN in stature over the years?

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Tulane

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syracuse

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Anonymous wrote:I think UMD has gone down recently. I remember a few years ago it was something like 35% acceptance rate and it's shot up to 45%

Wrong direction when applications are at an all time high and the Ivies are in single digits.

I think you are looking at overall acceptances including $$$$$ out of state students. Try getting in to the business, engineering or comp sci programs from MoCo and you’ll see the real acceptance rate is quite low. Fifteen years ago, it was easy. No more.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton and Cornell. Their graduates are not impressive.

Why do you say that? Do you mean they have scant interpersonal skills?

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Occidental.

Who thinks the PP just got rejected from Oxy?

I don’t think it was recently because every few months someone posts about how Occidental is supposedly in dire financial straits but the only “evidence” for it is some article from when the pandemic first sent all the kids home from school and someone said “this will have an impact on us”. I guess them and every other school.

If you check the Forbes financial health grades you can see Occidental gets an A-. I have no connection to the school except my kid looked at it (didn’t end up applying) but the trolling bugs me.

It's not trolling when it's true. $30 million in debt in 2020. The Board of Trustees had to allow a dip into the endowment (which is already small compared to, say, Pomona's). From the college itself: https://campaign.oxy.edu/news/oxy-faces-financial-impacts-covid-19-pandemic

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Anonymous wrote:American

I think it’s much more selective now.

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Ithaca College

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard.

It's still way up there, but where I think it used to be regarded as the top, now I think it's neck-and-neck or maybe even a little below Yale, Stanford, and MIT.

Harvard law is now #4.
What a fall from the days of Paper Chase.

It's actually no. 2 USNWR best universities. You are thinking of the law school, which is what Paper Chase was about

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Anonymous wrote:I think UMD has gone down recently. I remember a few years ago it was something like 35% acceptance rate and it's shot up to 45%

Wrong direction when applications are at an all time high and the Ivies are in single digits.

Opposite is true. It's gotten more prestigious and competitive. Previous 10 years, admit rate was 40s/50s%. In the 30s this year.

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Not when it takes a 4.47 and a 35 ACT to get in.

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Anonymous wrote:I would say Occidental.

Who thinks the PP just got rejected from Oxy?

I don’t think it was recently because every few months someone posts about how Occidental is supposedly in dire financial straits but the only “evidence” for it is some article from when the pandemic first sent all the kids home from school and someone said “this will have an impact on us”. I guess them and every other school.

If you check the Forbes financial health grades you can see Occidental gets an A-. I have no connection to the school except my kid looked at it (didn’t end up applying) but the trolling bugs me.

It's not trolling when it's true. $30 million in debt in 2020. The Board of Trustees had to allow a dip into the endowment (which is already small compared to, say, Pomona's). From the college itself: https://campaign.oxy.edu/news/oxy-faces-financial-impacts-covid-19-pandemic

Thank you for showing up and making my point. Every school had to adjust finances in 2020 because of the pandemic and nearly every school’s endowment is small compared to Pomona’s, which is in the top 10 endowments in the country on a per student basis.

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Dartmouth

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Admittedly sour grapes, but I’d like to see U Mich fall. Will the recent scandals help? Never understood my kid’s obsession with that school but damn them for not even waitlisting a kid so clearly telling them it was his first choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Admittedly sour grapes, but I’d like to see U Mich fall. Will the recent scandals help? Never understood my kid’s obsession with that school but damn them for not even waitlisting a kid so clearly telling them it was his first choice.

I don't think those scandals were UM?

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UVA