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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated in 1979 from a “big 3” and we had a few books (insiders guide is one I recall). I don’t remember rankings being a driver but maybe they were. The list of schools people in my class applied to/attended was pretty much the same as today. Lots of ivies, top SLACs, top schools like Stanford and MIT, a few top publics like Michigan, UVA). [/quote]

This is similar to us as well, graduated ~1979 though attended high school elsewhere in the states. There were definitely books and guides that existed a la Fiske nowadays, and magazine lists too, it's just that USNWR sort of superseded all of them and became king. But the schools that people thought of as the "top" were more or less the same as today. Ivies, Amherst, Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, Duke, Georgetown, top publics including Michigan and Cal and Ucla. The only notable change I can think of is the shooting popularity and "normalization" of UChicago, which used to only attract a singularly... unique student body.[/quote]

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