Examples of colleges trending up based on current rankings/prestige.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, UFlorida UTexas and for liberal
arts schools Holy Cross and Davidson.

How are Vanderbilt and Davidson trending up? They are already up there.

Vandy more selective than almost all ivies this year.

Davidson RD admit rate this year mind-boggling.

More selective? Without even looking this up, I have a feeling that the average applicant to Vanderbilt is pretty different than the avg applicant to Yale. I say this as a parent of a kid who would have been a solid contender for Vanderbilt (didn’t apply) but wouldn’t have had a snowball’s chance at Yale. From my kids’ mcps public high school, very smart and accomplished but not “off the charts” kids get into Vanderbilt (akin to those going to UVA)- versus the Yale admits are rare and special.

This is more NE bias. Yale is a great school and very selective, but so is Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt’s selectivity this year is every bit that of any Ivy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, UFlorida UTexas and for liberal
arts schools Holy Cross and Davidson.

How are Vanderbilt and Davidson trending up? They are already up there.

Vandy more selective than almost all ivies this year.

Davidson RD admit rate this year mind-boggling.

More selective? Without even looking this up, I have a feeling that the average applicant to Vanderbilt is pretty different than the avg applicant to Yale. I say this as a parent of a kid who would have been a solid contender for Vanderbilt (didn’t apply) but wouldn’t have had a snowball’s chance at Yale. From my kids’ mcps public high school, very smart and accomplished but not “off the charts” kids get into Vanderbilt (akin to those going to UVA)- versus the Yale admits are rare and special.

This is more NE bias. Yale is a great school and very selective, but so is Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt’s selectivity this year is every bit that of any Ivy.

Vanderbilt yeild protects

[Anonymous]

UF

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, UFlorida UTexas and for liberal
arts schools Holy Cross and Davidson.

How are Vanderbilt and Davidson trending up? They are already up there.

Vandy more selective than almost all ivies this year.

Davidson RD admit rate this year mind-boggling.

More selective? Without even looking this up, I have a feeling that the average applicant to Vanderbilt is pretty different than the avg applicant to Yale. I say this as a parent of a kid who would have been a solid contender for Vanderbilt (didn’t apply) but wouldn’t have had a snowball’s chance at Yale. From my kids’ mcps public high school, very smart and accomplished but not “off the charts” kids get into Vanderbilt (akin to those going to UVA)- versus the Yale admits are rare and special.

I don’t see it. It’s a lottery with the top schools and what it takes to win the Yale lottery, which could involve being a legacy, an URM, or someone with a compelling story about life as an LBGTQ student, isn’t necessary more indicative of intelligence or achievements than what it now takes to get into Duke, Vanderbilt, or Davidson.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, UFlorida UTexas and for liberal
arts schools Holy Cross and Davidson.

No way. Intelligent people from the blue states (where the majority of intelligent people reside) will not be sending their smart kids to the south. If anything, these schools will decline.

I'm always curious about families and students who would refuse a spot at Duke, Vanderbilt, Davidson, UVA, or UNC-Chapel Hill because they are in the South, but will happily go to Dartmouth, Cornell or a SLAC in the midwest and spend four years surrounded by a sea of red Trump voters. I'd take a blue town like Nashville or Chapel Hill in a heartbeat over some depressing town in New England and the Midwest where every angry, poorly educated local voted for Trump.

I'm always curious about anyone unable to exist around people with different viewpoints.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, UFlorida UTexas and for liberal
arts schools Holy Cross and Davidson.

No way. Intelligent people from the blue states (where the majority of intelligent people reside) will not be sending their smart kids to the south. If anything, these schools will decline.

I'm always curious about families and students who would refuse a spot at Duke, Vanderbilt, Davidson, UVA, or UNC-Chapel Hill because they are in the South, but will happily go to Dartmouth, Cornell or a SLAC in the midwest and spend four years surrounded by a sea of red Trump voters. I'd take a blue town like Nashville or Chapel Hill in a heartbeat over some depressing town in New England and the Midwest where every angry, poorly educated local voted for Trump.

You spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff and you still got most of it wrong? Maybe you’re the moron.

NP and you are a rude jerk.

DP. Anyone calling others, "angry, poorly educated locals" is quite clearly the rude jerk. As are you, for not calling that poster out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt, UFlorida UTexas and for liberal
arts schools Holy Cross and Davidson.

How are Vanderbilt and Davidson trending up? They are already up there.

Vandy more selective than almost all ivies this year.

Davidson RD admit rate this year mind-boggling.

More selective? Without even looking this up, I have a feeling that the average applicant to Vanderbilt is pretty different than the avg applicant to Yale. I say this as a parent of a kid who would have been a solid contender for Vanderbilt (didn’t apply) but wouldn’t have had a snowball’s chance at Yale. From my kids’ mcps public high school, very smart and accomplished but not “off the charts” kids get into Vanderbilt (akin to those going to UVA)- versus the Yale admits are rare and special.

This is more NE bias. Yale is a great school and very selective, but so is Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt’s selectivity this year is every bit that of any Ivy.

Good grief. Is it just the one Vanderbilt booster here, or are there several? Give it a rest.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UF

Go gators