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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dartmouth will be less affected than Vanderbilt, Wash. U. and even Chicago.

Dartmouth in an Ivy, and the Ivy brand is way too strong globally. It's located in the wealthiest and most populous region of the US (Northeast) and will always attract wealthy students.

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Dartmouth is now officially the lowest ranked Ivy [/quote]
Yes and a few days ago there were two below Dartmouth. Totally agree that the ivy brand is worth more than the USNWR rankings.  Would never pick a public college or most other privates over any Ivy![/quote]

This +1,000,000.  Ivy is Ivy.  Kids grow up wanting an Ivy not Duke (except one guy who went to GW with me who wanted Duke but ended up at GW because of basketball/his Dad was an alum and took him to games there).

There is like two schools you take above Ivy: Stanford and MIT.  Cal Tech is so limited it is more a Tech SLAC.  Even MIT is probably not ideal for Poli Sci.  Not Duke, not Chicago, and certainly not Hopkins, or Gtown, or Vanderbilt, or any public.  My kids would not go to publics for undergrad because of the class sizes.  SLACs, you would consider a handful: Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona, Naval Academy, Wellesley, Barnard, and Middlebury perhaps.  Last two are iffy--Barnard because you get a Columbia degree and Middlebury because it has historically ranked ahead of where it is now (top 10).  [/quote]

Nah. More kids would want Duke than either Dartmouth or Cornell.[/quote]

Duke is less desirable [/quote]

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