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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]State flagships will be popular. Particularly the Honors programs.

A lot of Ivies will decline in popularity. Particularly Harvard and Yale. They'll be regarded as rich kid and DEI schools, and not taken seriously for undergrad.

Schools going up will be the other major privates - Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern. And some publics like Michigan, Berkeley, and UCLA. MIT will continue to be regarded as the best school in America. Stanford will do fine.

Among SLACS, no real change. Amherst, Williams, and Bowdoin

There will be more interest in the academies. West Point and Annapolis will be roughly equal. Then Air Force.

Not a lot of change. Except in the Ivy League. Harvard, Yale, Penn, Brown, and Columbia are declining institutions. Princeton and Cornell will do fine [/quote]

Among SLACs, there has been a shift that I think will continue away from the NESCAC schools, which have location challenges and have been slower on the eng and CS front. I'd expect Swarthmore to be ranked first again by USNWR in the next 5-10 years and wouldn't be shocked if Pomona took a turn at the top as well. The best women's colleges have been positioning themselves well too (Wellesley and Smith in particular with endowment growth and investment in STEM).

Elite schools will continue to care deeply about athletics at the D1 and D3 levels and will double down on recruiting athletes from a wider set of backgrounds. D3 football and basketball have become more racially diverse (less white) and other sports will likely follow.

Schools that are good but not as set for how USNWR now rank will likely be hurt a bit. Chicago is probably more a 10-15 school now (and historically) with 20 more likely than top 4 or 5. WashU is another example. Cornell won't be on the receiving end of "worst" Ivy jokes either as more publications regularly rank them ahead of the schools they row.

Stanford's combination of CS / STEM leadership and $$ (their total assets, not just endowment, even surpass Harvard's now) will make it the biggest name of the next 25 years.[/quote]

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