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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My honest thoughts? Holy hell that is a huge drop off of the top quartile. [b]Mental health and stress rates for UMC kids are going to explode. [/b]

As replies to the OP on another thread whose kid has perfect grades, great SATs and strong ECs indicate - these kids seem to have to be super human as it is already to get into even T50 schools. [/quote]

Or maybe parents will finally understand that schools outside the top 20 still offer a good education and stress around getting into the "right" school will decrease.

Unrealistic, I know.[/quote]

Or maybe these so called top schools will lose their appeal as they become more of a charity and less of a place for the best and brightest. State flagships will reap the benefit and eclipse these formerly highly regarded schools.[/quote]

It's possible (and I think likely) for the balance to shift. But state flagships will never entirely eclipse ivies, because ivies draw from a national catchment, while flagships by definition serve their local state populations.

The real question is, who benefits as ivy populations get increasingly Asian post affirmative action? Who gets the white kids? Southern flagships seen like a good bet. Is it time to buy stock in LACs again?[/quote]

White kids in the south, west, midwest, and pretty much everywhere not the northeast aren't as obsessed or interested in the ivies as you seem to think.[/quote]

Do you just keep this comment ready to ctrl-c every time someone mentions the ivies? Everybody knows this already. The question is about the present ivy population. Do they just sit tight as Asians become more predominant on campus now that AA is over, or do they move elsewhere. I think many of them move elsewhere, including to your beloved flagships.[/quote]

You wish it was just one person who said the same thing, as if it wasn't a popular sentiment. Everyone isn't ivy or bust and that will ony become more common in the next several years. Can you not read the writing on the wall?[/quote]

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