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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A simple explanation is that the ivies are losing their edge, and that there are lots of good schools these days.[/quote]

Are they? The most competitive employers still heavily ivy grads and ivy grads are over represented in top ranked graduate programs [/quote]

Majority of top 10 schools on USNWR are not ivy[/quote]

4 out of 10 and 2 out of the top 3 being ivy doesn't seem top be making the point you want to make. [/quote]

Top 3 vary substantially year to year.

The fact is that most top schools are not ivy.[/quote]

Half of the ivy league is top 10, a quarter are top 3. Only in DCUM land would that mean the ivy league isn't prestigious anymore 
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[b]Was the bottom half ever prestigious[/b]?[/quote]. No, there were not anywhere near prestigious in my day, admittedly a long time ago.  Dartmouth really was like Animal House, and schools like Amherst and Wellesley were considered to be quite a bit better.  [/quote]

Dartmouth was sought after school for affluent families going back to the late 19th century. To be a Dartmouth man meant something. It didn't emerge from nowhere. Brown had a solid reputation and an old history. Cornell and Penn were known for graduate programs. But it was also a different world altogether with a very different understanding of colleges and their roles. By the 1930s the Ivies were coalescing into broadly recognized as the elite colleges for America's elite. If anything, I'd suggest the elite LACs have lost ground in the race for elitism. [/quote]

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