“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane, UC Boulder, NYU.

Huge surge in applications at NYU. Went from 35% admit rate in 2016 to 28% in 2017 to 19% this year.

Why, one wonders.

NYU has becoming more & more popular (& selective) for at least 15 years. It reflects the overall trend of more young adults choosing urban environments.

A few big name celebrities (MK & Ashley Olsen, for instance) chosing to attendback in the early-mid '00s couldn't have hurt, either.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU
Davidson
Macalester
Pitzer
Occidental
Reed
USC

Lots of interest of going west!

Going west for these two powerfully second rate CA schools on your list and one that is vastly overrated and still has an inferiority complex?

Since you raised it, I'm curious to learn about your personal rating system, since US News rates Southern Cal as a Top 25 school, tied with UCLA and Berkeley

[b]No serious person feels that way about USC.

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Ah, well argued! Who needs US News and its silly data when you have your "no serious person feels that way" argument! Thank you.

Agree - it was the Univ. of Spoiled Children when I attended and still is.

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Big 10 schools in general. Thinking of my kid and her classmates...seems like tons and tons of kids applied to at least one of them.

(And by big 10 I mean the “traditional” B10 schools like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana, not the East coast/mid Atlantic schools that joined much later a la Maryland and Rutgers.)

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Tulane, Miami, Richmond, Pitt

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane, Miami, Richmond, Pitt

Pitt is a surprisingly big at TJ. Apparently you will get in. And you will get good merit aid. The last year I saw 85 kids applied and 82 got in. And a surprising number attended. I don’t have it in front of me now. Someone in the guidance department is plugging Pitt hard. Or it is a really good got to safety engineering school (not parenting a kid who wants engineering, so I never dig into this). Pitt is my big surprise in the TJ numbers. You look down the list of top admitting schools, and it is U A, VT, WM, VC, and Pitt. One of these things is not like the others.

Also Ohio State and Purdue and out. Georgia Tech always surprises me with how few kids go. A lot get in. No one ever attends (I think 1 kid last year). And it is an excellent school. Not sure why.

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Pitt gives money. Not everyone can afford tuition.

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Lots of premed at Pitt

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Drexel

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University of Florida (UF) saw the largest increase in apps of any university this year.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Florida (UF) saw the largest increase in apps of any university this year.

Newsweek had that school on its list of least rigorous colleges in 2012. Maybe it's changed since then.

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Indiana.

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Anonymous wrote:Tulane, Miami, Richmond, Pitt

Pitt is a surprisingly big at TJ. Apparently you will get in. And you will get good merit aid. The last year I saw 85 kids applied and 82 got in. And a surprising number attended. I don’t have it in front of me now. Someone in the guidance department is plugging Pitt hard. Or it is a really good got to safety engineering school (not parenting a kid who wants engineering, so I never dig into this). Pitt is my big surprise in the TJ numbers. You look down the list of top admitting schools, and it is U A, VT, WM, VC, and Pitt. One of these things is not like the others.

Also Ohio State and Purdue and out. Georgia Tech always surprises me with how few kids go. A lot get in. No one ever attends (I think 1 kid last year). And it is an excellent school. Not sure why.

Ga Tech is expensive for OOS. No merit aid. That’s why.

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Anonymous wrote:<<Not every TJ parent is gunning for the most prestigious college sticker to put on their car. Some of us are looking hard at kids interest, talents, needs and fit. You do you. My kid will be fine.>>

Yah, I want to hang out with this other parent: he/she is reflecting our family's approach exactly.

We would just substitute MoCo for TJ in the quoted passage! My child selected the least prestigious of the 7 schools he got into. And I totally support his decision: it was clearly the best fit all around.

What is your kid like and which school proved to be the best fit? Curious how he researched and found this school. Our priorities are similar to yours. Our kids might be different but would love some insight into how you researched schools and your decision making process once he had 7 acceptances
FWIW my kid wants a LAC (small or mid sized) which has a strong biology program. Wants a Northeast/mid Atlantic college where kids are serious and intellectually curious but does not want a pressure cooker. It does not have to be a top 20 school but He wants a school that places students into top graduate schools. He has excellent stats and very good ECs

Juniata.

Tufts, brandeis

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Anonymous wrote:University of Florida (UF) saw the largest increase in apps of any university this year.

Newsweek had that school on its list of least rigorous colleges in 2012. Maybe it's changed since then.

I think so. Average GPA for incoming freshmen was a 4.2.

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Muhlenberg