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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of the current Top 5 Publics, their 1990 acceptance rates are below …

UCLA: 40% (~ 4.2x)
Berkeley: 37% (~ 3.0x)
Michigan: 52% (~ 3.0x)
UVA: 34% (~2.2x)
UNC: 33% (~1.7x)

For reference …

Brown: 20% (~ 3.3x)
Cal Tech: 28% (~ 9.0x)
Columbia: 25% (~ 6.3x)
Cornell: 29% (~ 3.3x)
Dartmouth: 20% (~ 3.3x)
Duke: 21% (~ 4.2x)
Harvard: 15% (~ 4.4x)
Johns Hopkins: 53% (~ 8.2x)
MIT: 32% (~ 7.9x)
Northeastern: 88% (~ 9.8x)
Northwestern: 41% (~ 5.9x)
Penn: 35% (~ 6.1x)
Princeton: 16% (~ 3.7x)
Stanford: 15% (~ 3.8x)
Vanderbilt: 65% (~ 8.3x)
Yale: 17% (~ 3.3x)[/quote]

Why were Penn and Northwestern unpopular in 1990 but very popular today?[/quote]

It's not that they were unpopular, they had about the same admit rate as MIT.  Back in the day things were less competitive.

People also applied to fewer schools, imagine filling out a paper application for every school.  Also, the SAT wasn't as compressed and there wasn't as much grade inflation, so it was easier to tell who was an outlier, as opposed to now where the stats are obfuscated so there are legions of high stats kids.  [/quote]

And also there wasn’t the financial aid or huge international applicants numbers. The pool was smaller. If you were UMC and lived in a high school district that had an SAT prep class in town, the world was your oyster. [/quote]

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