Which prestigious colleges are the "second tier" students going to?

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Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and was shocked by Penn State's ranking. If one looks at its acceptance rate and average SAT scores, it is more like a Top 50 or 60 school, not 37th. Really hard to figure. Tulane, for example, has an average SAT 200 points higher and an acceptance rate 50 percent lower than PSU, huge, huge, differences, yet is ranked 15 slots lower. PSU is an ok school, but really not elite or an especially academic atmospher, except in some of the science grad programs. It is also in a not particularly nice town in the middle of nowhere.

Tulane alum here. Tulane is consistently ranked well below what it "deserves," probably because it is in the deep South.

Nice try.

Tulane and PSU are now comparably ranked (#54 and #48, respectively)

Tulane should be ranked higher than it is.

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Anonymous wrote:^^ No joking! I was top BMOC in my so-so college which is so demanding on College Confidential, I doubt I could get back in it today! Same with law school. It's a whole new world out there. Tough for our kids.

It makes the job of working with parents hard for anyone in the college counseling field. The kids tend to know how competitive things are out there, but the parents rely on notions from 10 years ago or more and urge kids to apply to schools that they have absolutely no chance of getting into. (Although every should apply to a few reach schools and maybe even one really,really reach school).

Colleges that used to be pretty much rolling admissions, colleges that would take anyone, are now competitive. I'm from New England so schools like Northeastern come to mind.

I'm hoping those parents have notions that are 20 or more years old! Otherwise, their kids who are 17 now, were born before these parents even entered college.

Be kind to this college counselor. She has it rough with all of those unrealistic expectations. It makes math difficult.

Not a college counselor but I see and hear idiot parents on this forum and elsewhere spouting their outdated notions. They are doing a great disservice to their kids. Also, a notion is an idea or an opinion. If it is your understanding that one cannot update one's notions regarding a topic, I hope you have excellent computational skills. Your only asset?

You funny, lady.

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Anonymous wrote:I am an alum and was shocked by Penn State's ranking. If one looks at its acceptance rate and average SAT scores, it is more like a Top 50 or 60 school, not 37th. Really hard to figure. Tulane, for example, has an average SAT 200 points higher and an acceptance rate 50 percent lower than PSU, huge, huge, differences, yet is ranked 15 slots lower. PSU is an ok school, but really not elite or an especially academic atmospher, except in some of the science grad programs. It is also in a not particularly nice town in the middle of nowhere.

Tulane alum here. Tulane is consistently ranked well below what it "deserves," probably because it is in the deep South.

Nice try.

Tulane and PSU are now comparably ranked (#54 and #48, respectively)

Tulane should be ranked higher than it is.

Could be that there there 6 year graduation rate of 76% is lower than Penn State's 85% graduation rate. But, honestly, there's not much difference between #48 and #54.

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^^their not there there - sorry

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Schools ranked 25-50: Carnegie Mellon. Wake Forrest, BC, Tufts, BU, University of Rochester, Brandeis, NYU etc. etc.