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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My SLAC has gone crazy left and doesn't even tolerate conservative or republican points of view. So I don't give.  That doesn't mean much in of itself but there are sufficient alumni who feel this way such as it has really made the endowment suffer.  The other problem is that the institution went from highly selective to almost 50% selectivity rate -
 due to lack of quality applications - which just disgusts a lot of alums.  It was once a great school but no longer is.[/quote]

[b]I'm having a hard time coming up with any SLACs that used to be highly selective but now have a 50% admission rate. So I'm going to call this one fake news.[/quote][/b]

Well, off the top of my head there's Occidental College.  It used to be on the same level as Pomona and Stanford in California.  Now it has a 45+% acceptance rate.[/quote]

W[b]hen was Occidental on the same level as Stanford and Pomona?[/quote][/b]

On and off since 1907.  In 1907 Oxy produced its first Rhodes.  Pomona then suggested they combine into one college.  Oxy turned Pomona down.  Oxy then produced 9 more Rhodes Scholars.  In the early 70s it was highly competitive.  Most students applied also to Pomona, Stanford as well as Oxy (fewer California students went east then so the selections in California for a top student were not as great as they are today) and UCLA.  USC was considered a third-rate party school, and Pitzer even lower.  The joke about USC was that the students stood in line the first day comparing notes as to their test scores and when UCLA turned them down.  Much has changed.  
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So Occidental was last highly competitive (stats to verify that?) approximately 45 years ago, but it's fall has been the result of social awareness from the last 5-10 years?

That's not how that works.[/quote]

Ignore PP.

Occidental has never remotely been a first tier CA school.[/quote]

The Occidental-Pomona gap has always been so interesting to me. One would think that Occidental, located an urban location in Los Angeles compared to boring suburban Claremont, would be more selective, but the differences are so stark between the two in most factors. They were both found in 1887 as co-ed schools with religious founders seeking to create a liberal arts college on the West Coast, and also designed by the same architect. Both are known for left-leaning student bodies. [/quote]

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