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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HYPSM will continue to be overly popular.

Schools with strong comp sci or business departments are next.

Schools that aggressively manage their admissions process to lower their fake admit rates and inflated yields are next (Chicago, Northeastern, etc.).

Schools that don’t fit any of the above will suffer.

Hoping something will stop this aggressive admissions management, which to me is making anxiety worse and is more pernicious than all the AA/legacy/etc. policies everyone complains about.[/quote]

[b]Should be PSM at this point. Yale lost the plot some years ago. Early apps to Harvard declined by 17 percent this year - and that's before all the recent controversies.

But yes, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT will remain at the top.[/b]

US News made things weird this year. They don't care about class size. They don't care about the academic qualifications of professors. They don't care about how long it takes a student to graduate. They very much care about federal Pell Grants, even though most good private schools offer enough financial aid so that students don't need Pell Grants.

So, US News is no longer a great metric.

I would say schools on the up are the southern schools - Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice. As well as the really good publics, particularly those with good STEM - Georgia Tech, Texas, Texas A&M. And Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin. Also, Minnesota. 
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I get that trashing the Ivies is a favorite pastime on this forum, with Harvard and Yale taking the brunt of it. But I am just fascinated how people tend to give Princeton and Stanford (I know not an Ivy but part of HYPSM) a pass even though both of these schools engage in the very same policies, DEI engineering, etc, that Harvard and Yale get lambasted for.

Is that because Princeton and Stanford are not in the news as much as HY or do we conveniently give them a pass for another reason?[/quote]

Princeton grad here and I 100% agree - Princeton is just as woke as Harvard and Yale. [/quote]

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