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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?[/quote]

actually a funny comment because it is true on many levels

I think US News single handedly raised the reputation of a number of T25 non ivies

Vanderbilt had a 50%+ acceptance rate back at the turn of the century as did USC.

Ivies will always get the apps but Vandy, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, Northeastern, and Wash U are included on many wish lists based solely on the ranking[/quote]

Pretty much, except for Duke due to its basketball fame, and add Hopkins. All of those were always top universities in each of their regions, but never internationally attractive universities as the top/middle tier Ivies and Stanford/MIT/Caltech.

Students from the Northeast would be happy to go to Villanova, Fordham, Tufts, etc. if they didn't get into the Ivies. They knew these schools were not as good as the Ivies but they didn't think the were 40-50 spots worse.

Now they go Washington Univ., Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, etc.

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