Prestigious but High Acceptance Rate Schools?

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Brandeis

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Anonymous wrote:Seeking to make a list of schools that are generally well-known, respected, or have strong “name recognition” but are not ultra-selective.

I’ve heard Penn State and Purdue are two. What are others?

UChicago ED.

Jokes aside, URochester for medical stuff and physics (especially optics)

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Anonymous wrote:Vassar’s acceptance rate is higher than that of most of its peers, recently at 21%.

Especially for boys!

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Anonymous wrote:Vassar’s acceptance rate is higher than those of most of its peers, recently at 21%.

Especially for boys!

However, on its most recent CDS, the acceptance rates for male and female applicants both round to 21%.

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Wake Forest, SMU is what I think of for rich kids who didn’t do well in school.

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Anonymous wrote:TCU, Santa Clara University, Occidental, NYU.

NYU is an easy admit, nowadays?

No, it isn't. If anything, NYU and Northeastern are the exact opposite of what OP is asking.

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Anonymous wrote:Seeking to make a list of schools that are generally well-known, respected, or have strong “name recognition” but are not ultra-selective.

I’ve heard Penn State and Purdue are two. What are others? The

Most Midwestern flagships.

But they may make up for loose admissions standards by weeding many students out.

This is something people in the Northeast usually don’t understand . These flyover state flagships often accept 80+%, but by the time you get to organic chemistry, advanced accounting, advanced math classes etc, your classmates won’t be a cross-section of those accepted. The less-talented students will usually have switched to easier majors or dropped out.

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William & Mary. It has legacy prestige and one of the highest SAT scores of any state school. It's always on public ivy lists, but is relative self selecting with a higher acceptance rate than many of its peers.

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Anonymous wrote:Trinity in Connecticut is old school preppy, has a pretty campus albeit it fenced in by the ghetto, allegedly has a great alumni network in NYC, and is practically open enrollment these days.

+1 lots of solid 2nd tier schools in New England New York like Union, HWS, Conn, or Skidmore

Also Catholics like Fordham, Fairfield, Scranton or Loyola(s)

I guess. But those 2nd tier (third tier?) LAC are filled with C/B kids who couldn’t get in elsewhere. I think they trade on their former reputations and would not send my child to one.

The Jesuits schools are quite good.

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Come on, man. OP used the word “prestigious” in a sloppy way, and clearly doesn’t mean schools like Case, Michigan, or Carlton. OP gave Purdue & Penn State as examples…solid, respectable schools that even your weird uncle has heard of, and that you don’t need to be a curated unicorn to get into.

So, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, Arizona, Florida State, Syracuse, Michigan State, Miami of Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wisconsin.

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I agree with GW. It’s a safety school, but offers an excellent education, programming and internship access.

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Anonymous wrote:Carleton is prestigious but not as crazy selective as ivies. 20% acceptance rate is reasonable.

Case Western is prestigious, acceptance rate around 35%. Rochester is similar.

UMD and VT are more prestigious than CWRU and have acceptance rates of 45 and 55%

I don't think UMD and VT are more prestigious than CWRU. They are about the same?

Not the same. Not close. People on this forum think the local state schools are better than they are. Are they hard to get into? Yes. But that has nothing to do with prestige.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with GW. It’s a safety school, but offers an excellent education, programming and internship access.

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Trinity still has a name in some circles.

Penn State has a huge alumni network. It is cult like. The difference between its network and others is that its alumni really do go out of their way to help out students. Have you talked to a Penn State alumni? According to them it is the greatest place.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with GW. It’s a safety school, but offers an excellent education, programming and internship access.

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They give a lot of merit, making it $65k-$70k total, which is still a lot but around the same or cheaper than many schools named already.