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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30 years ago nobody outside the midwest had heard of Wash U.  Since then, it has raised its profile, primarily by awarding merit money to coasties.  Now it draws a ton of very strong applicants from this area, as well as other metro areas along the east coast.[/quote]

Really, I think you're mistaken. I went to high school in Virginia over 30 years ago, and it has always had an excellent reputation. [/quote]

I went to Sidwell 25 years ago and one of my classmates went there.  No one had really heard of it then (that was before US News rankings of course).  Now it's one of the most popular schools for Sidwell students to attend. Definitely changed.[/quote]

I'm the first PP quoted and I'll stand by my original statement, though I do want to clarify that it wasn't in any way meant as a slam against Wash U.  I went to a top public high school in California and came east to college as did many of my classmates.  None of us would have even applied to Wash U back then, but the school has a very different image now.   [/quote]

I don't believe it ever had a bad image.[/quote]

It wasn't a "bad" image, but it was either unknown or considered a B-list school.  This is true of many schools that are now highly-regarded (examples: Chicago, Duke, Middlebury), so don't take it personally.  As another PP noted, schools rise and fall in rankings, whether formal or informal ones.  Here's another example: I went to law school at Stanford in the late '80s, when the school's rep was just taking off, but my parents were concerned because I turned down Yale to go there.  I grew up in California, where, not so long ago Stanford had been considered a solid, but not outstanding, regional law school.  I can remember showing my parents an article from the New York Times describing Stanford's rise in order to persuade them that I wasn't making a terrible mistake.     [/quote]

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