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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago and WashU dropped significantly in the recent USNWR rankings. Will this hurt their perception locally as great midwestern alternatives to Ivy League schools?
Chicago (12th) had been in the top 10 every year since 2007 and hadn't been lower than a tie for 6th in over a decade. However, they were regularly outside the top 10 in the 90s and early 2000s, when many current parents were going to college.
WashU (24th) had been in the top 20 every year since 1991 and was top 15 the last two years and in most years since 2005.
Both have been ranked lower in other publications too. Forbes, for example, ranked them 28th and 40th, though to be fair that was in a combined ranking with the top LACs as well.
I've read on DCUM about the Big 3 connection to Chicago. Will that willingness to apply ED2 to one of these schools continue? [b]Parents on this board use "T10" regularly when talking about prestige. [/b]
In the midwest, Northwestern moved above Chicago and Notre Dame moved above WashU (both also occurred in the Forbes ranking too). Is there a reshuffling again in the top midwestern schools? Northwestern was commonly the highest ranked school in the midwest in the late 90s and early 2000s. It is a little funny that the rankings are coming full circle back to when we were looking at colleges ourselves. [/quote]

I don't understand how you or anyone can make such a statement?  Now that Brown is ranked in the top 10 (for like the first time ever), are you suggesting that it wasn't a prestigious school in 2022 or any year before then?  Is Dartmouth not prestigious now since it 18?  I don't know if this statement is made by an adult or someone not lacking a certain level of maturity.  There are probably 20 schools that can be considered "Top 10" and by this, I mean schools with pretty strong reputations that have been built over decades and in the case of some, hundreds of years.  No magazine article will change this...  People put way too much stock in these rankings and it is concerning...[/quote]

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