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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back then, I heard of Ivy League but was not sure what schools belong in it, other than Harvard and Yale. At the time without internet, one has to check out books in order to find out and I would not bother. Not like these days that students do a lot of research for their applications. That was a good old time.[/quote]

People looking at T10 schools back then knew how to use a library/bookstore. ;) 
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Yeah but people generally didn’t bother unless you were at the top of your class. The rest of us went to the state school (Penn State), the nearby party state school (WVU) or any one of the smaller regional schools or state school satellite campuses

I went out of state to UNC because I wanted to be in a warmer climate and I thought it was pretty. There was nothing about selectivity or ranking that led me there. Very few people left the area. I can think of a couple: someone who went to Rutgers. Another person went to BU. But we were the outliers.

The discussions were all about where we thought we would like. There wasn’t discussion of T10, T20 or debating how being rated 21 was better than 24. Party kids wanted to find fun schools. Serious kids went to what was thought of back then as the serious schools (back then that meant schools like Carnegie Mellon). The jock kids wanted to go to the schools with good sports.[/quote]

People weren’t debating #21 vs #24 but among my peers we certainly focused on T10-20 schools and used ratings to help with our search.

Most applied to a few reach, a few solids, and a safety or two.

It was easier to get in back then and we had a bunch go to Ivy/top 10-15.  
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Any school in T10-20 is great.  You better research to tailor to your kid indstead of the ratings.

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Most did research by major/program, but there were a few “Ivy or die” types. 
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^^ and the KIDS were researching. Not the parents. [/quote]

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