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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, the Ivy Leagues have had a long run. These days? Overweened hysteria-ridden liberal fringe ideas, for no reason except for the sake of presenting new and novel ideas. Hey, let's confuse today's youth about their sexuality, and let's get the media on-board! End result 40% (I don't know the actual numbers but know it's significant) of adolescent girls, understandably questioning changes happening to their bodies and lives, now think they are gender fluid or trans or whatever the media is screaming about. Definitely, some of them are fluid or trans, and that's fine. But a percentage such as 40% ? Get out of town.

This is why the Ivy Leagues are losing their cachet. They're living la vida loca in an imaginary playground in their minds.[/quote]

I think it is more of a wealth demographic change. Those colleges always were prestigious and popular because of who traditionally attended them (children of wealthy/elite /political/religiously connected families from the very start of the colonies when very few attended university at all), and that reputation carried them for a long time because it was a self-perpetuating dynamic of social status and social climbing.

People are not as into that today, particularly after the Dot Com Boom made a lot of people wealthy and smart people stopped focusing on just one way to succeed. The brand isn't gone, but it's not the only game in town. It's becoming quaint. It is also becoming tarnished, especially as so much fraud and corruption is revealed among the ranks, both to get into the schools and the number of people who leave them and end ip in prison for white collar crime.[/quote]

Given the numbers of applicants it seems like this might be a bit of 'wishful thinking'. That said there is a much wider pool of schools being recognized for excellence, especially in tech fields and that is a very positive thing.[/quote]

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