What's the next hot college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon, Carlton, and a whole bunch of Southern schools (Alabama, Sewanee, etc...) Rich kids are getting shut out of the top tier schools and attending (and thus increasing the prestige of) lower tier schools.

This is a plausible argument. We noted several students in nephews "prep" school who got "shut out" and ended up going to Alabama and Elon.

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SMU

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Bard
Carlton
Earlham
Grinnell
Lawrence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bard
Carlton
Earlham
Grinnell
Lawrence

Carlton is already hot and Bard, for a certain kind of student.

I would add Scripps, Muhlenberg, Skidmore, Occidental.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Reed is too focused on academia to ever become a hot college. It doesn't even have a real computer science department (too preprofessional for them), and forget engineering. It will always attract people who want academia but will never become wildly popular.

Reed is actually adding a computer science major. But it will still be extremely theoretical and taught by faculty in the mathematics department.

That's pretty useless. What are they supposed to do? Take their coding classes at community college over the summer? It would be more useful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Reed is too focused on academia to ever become a hot college. It doesn't even have a real computer science department (too preprofessional for them), and forget engineering. It will always attract people who want academia but will never become wildly popular.

Reed is actually adding a computer science major. But it will still be extremely theoretical and taught by faculty in the mathematics department.

That's pretty useless. What are they supposed to do? Take their coding classes at community college over the summer? It would be more useful.

You don't work in high visibility high value tech do you?

My sister went to a top 3 lac, majored in math/cs (barely can code) but she's already involved heavily in high visibility teams at one of the biggest tech firms on the planet.

Coders are a dime a dozen in the valley or seattle. In fact devs and tests are routinely faced with the job axe or their work is outsourced/parceled up to cheap coders anywhere on the planet.

What is important is the ability to think like a computer scientist/mathematician when analyzing problems and thinking of new products.

[Anonymous]

We moved from New York a few years ago, and my DH and I will strongly consider some of the NY public universities for our children, one of whom is in middle school and the other a rising HS sophomore. Particularly Binghamton University, which is highly selective and ranked and less than 5 hours drive, and Stony Brook University, which has a great science and pre-med program. I think both of these universities will gain more of a national reputation as they get better in sports (sad that sometimes that is what it takes) and people realize their value relative to private tuition even as out of state residents.

[Anonymous]

I think the next "hot" college is not a college but a different trend for society to obsess over and feel they need the "best" to be the "best". I think people are so sick of USNWR rankings and obsessing over colleges. Soon no one will care what college you went to at all. It is making high school students and their parents crazy and people are overspending on certain colleges. There will be something else in life to rank themselves against everyone else with. In the past few decades it has been colleges, houses, neighborhoods, kitchens and bathrooms. Pick the next trend for people to get worked up about trying to seek some sort of perfection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the next "hot" college is not a college but a different trend for society to obsess over and feel they need the "best" to be the "best". I think people are so sick of USNWR rankings and obsessing over colleges. Soon no one will care what college you went to at all. It is making high school students and their parents crazy and people are overspending on certain colleges. There will be something else in life to rank themselves against everyone else with. In the past few decades it has been colleges, houses, neighborhoods, kitchens and bathrooms. Pick the next trend for people to get worked up about trying to seek some sort of perfection.

Rich people problems. Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the next "hot" college is not a college but a different trend for society to obsess over and feel they need the "best" to be the "best". I think people are so sick of USNWR rankings and obsessing over colleges. Soon no one will care what college you went to at all. It is making high school students and their parents crazy and people are overspending on certain colleges. There will be something else in life to rank themselves against everyone else with. In the past few decades it has been colleges, houses, neighborhoods, kitchens and bathrooms. Pick the next trend for people to get worked up about trying to seek some sort of perfection.

Rich people problems. Seriously?

It is not just rich people. The middle class is driving themselves into debt trying to keep up with what is perceived as the good life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elon, Carlton, and a whole bunch of Southern schools (Alabama, Sewanee, etc...) Rich kids are getting shut out of the top tier schools and attending (and thus increasing the prestige of) lower tier schools.

Elon has long been over, so was not impressed. Many of the Nescac's my sons advisor is saying are suddenly more popular than ever (f they are looking for a top education in a small school). Oberlin also has seen a rise in apps. Also University of Texas- Austin seems to be a popular school these days.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claremont Colleges

Already hot. 4 of 5 "Cs" are the most selective SLACs in the country. Harder to get into than Williams, for example.

Ah, no.

[Anonymous]

It's Carleton not Carlton

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the next "hot" college is not a college but a different trend for society to obsess over and feel they need the "best" to be the "best". I think people are so sick of USNWR rankings and obsessing over colleges. Soon no one will care what college you went to at all. It is making high school students and their parents crazy and people are overspending on certain colleges. There will be something else in life to rank themselves against everyone else with. In the past few decades it has been colleges, houses, neighborhoods, kitchens and bathrooms. Pick the next trend for people to get worked up about trying to seek some sort of perfection.

Rich people problems. Seriously?

It is not just rich people. The middle class is driving themselves into debt trying to keep up with what is perceived as the good life.

College is more important than ever. Now not graduating from college is like not graduating from high school used to be. Don't kid yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an offshoot, will regional state schools become more desirable for students hoping to catch a good value / name recognition, lightning in a bottle situation?

That is, will University of Northern Colorado, SUNY - Binghamton, and University of Southern Maine all become hot choices as we all look to get the most bang from the buck?

Yes. People are less impressed with a name brand education now and more impressed with the value. If these schools provide a solid education that can get you to land a first job then the students are on their way. Nobody really believes only the top 30 colleges that are so hard to get into and are so expensive are the only way to a successful career.

I agree that there a multiple routes to a successful career. Going to a top college is one of them.