What colleges are falling out of fashion?

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Anonymous wrote:Duke

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Duke very popular with kids at our Big3.

Because they can’t get into better dear

I guess you got a weird charge out of that

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I honestly can't imagine why Duke would be falling out of favor, when it's right up the alley for so many applicants and the Research Triangle area has taken off economically. I could imagine a small number of elite East Coast types now writing off North Carolina because of the state's politics, but someone else would take their place quickly as economic activity moves to the south. So I think the trashing must come from folks who didn't get in or whose kids were turned down.

And, no, not a Duke graduate (in fact, turned it down twice).

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly can't imagine why Duke would be falling out of favor, when it's right up the alley for so many applicants and the Research Triangle area has taken off economically. I could imagine a small number of elite East Coast types now writing off North Carolina because of the state's politics, but someone else would take their place quickly as economic activity moves to the south. So I think the trashing must come from folks who didn't get in or whose kids were turned down.

And, no, not a Duke graduate (in fact, turned it down twice).

Duke had 50k applications last year

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I would say Duke Georgetown and JHU

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Georgetown 100%.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly can't imagine why Duke would be falling out of favor, when it's right up the alley for so many applicants and the Research Triangle area has taken off economically. I could imagine a small number of elite East Coast types now writing off North Carolina because of the state's politics, but someone else would take their place quickly as economic activity moves to the south. So I think the trashing must come from folks who didn't get in or whose kids were turned down.

And, no, not a Duke graduate (in fact, turned it down twice).

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What about GW?

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Anonymous wrote:What about GW?

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Anonymous wrote:What about GW?

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Not sure GW was ever popular……

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Anonymous wrote:I graduated high school in the 90s. From what I recall, hot schools back then were Duke, Wake Forest, Hopkins, Georgetown, Northwestern

I think Duke, Wake Forest, Hopkins, Georgetown have fallen out of favor since then, looking at where my kid and peers have applied.

A big problem for Hopkins is Baltimore overall. Crime has surged while people have fled--the population of Baltimore is like 100k less than in the 1990s. Hopkins even started offering graduates who stay in the city of Baltimore extra money and loan forgiveness.

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Georgetown, although I don't understand why. My kid didn't have the stats but I was really surprised to see that Naviance showed really low application numbers from his MCPS HS for this year - about half of the number that applied last year. Most other schools show the opposite trend, much higher volume this year. All schools have their issues, but I can't understand how Northeastern could be "hot" and Georgetown is somehow not appealing.

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Howard

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Anonymous wrote:What about GW?

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Not sure GW was ever popular……

Interesting mention of GW. Surprisingly DS, FCPS 11th grader IS interested in GW as a potentialsafety. NOT full of FCPS kids, urban, merit etc. Also interested in Hopkins, Penn/Drexel, Columbia/NYU/Fordham. MIT/NEU, Pitt and CWRU.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, although I don't understand why. My kid didn't have the stats but I was really surprised to see that Naviance showed really low application numbers from his MCPS HS for this year - about half of the number that applied last year. Most other schools show the opposite trend, much higher volume this year. All schools have their issues, but I can't understand how Northeastern could be "hot" and Georgetown is somehow not appealing.

Georgetown uses a different process to accept transcripts and recommendation letters from the high schools. The data for this year might not be updated yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice

...hmmm...no. I'm as liberal you get and I would probably hold my nose and send my DS to Rice if he had even a prayer of getting in. It looks like an absolutely phenomenal school. I wouldn't do that for other Texas schools -- too many good places elsewhere.

Picking schools based on political bias…now that is open-mindedness…I guess UF is out for you too as you don’t want to expose your kids to opposing local views 😀 (in fear that they might actually switch sides?)

It’s not political anymore - it’s about morality. I don’t want my daughter going to a school that sees women as incubators or thinks Black Lives don’t matter. I don’t want her exposed to the cruelty and stupidity of the current conservative movement or the worship of gun ownership. I will not pay to have her exposed to the belief that immigrants are evil.

Not ever going to happen.

You're confusing morality with personal beliefs and politics. Because I doubt most people in the states you sneer at think all these things. They just have different stances on policies and political issues than you do. You certainly don't have legitimate claims to a higher moral road based on what you said because you do reek of a self-imposed intolerance that you confuse for morality, and unfortunately you've also said enough to indicate a certain badly educated, narrow-minded, and willfully dogmatic outlook that has nothing to do with morality, but, frankly, is an attitude that is distinctly immoral rather than supportive of morals.