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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of these posters insisting that the huge drop that Wake, Wash U and Tulane had in the rankings isn’t going to turn off applicants are kidding themselves.  It was their high rankings that led to so many applications in recent years in the first place.  Get real. [/quote]

Can anyone think of a precedent? Ideally with ballpark similar starting points and drops in ranking. Also, ideally not due to not sending data to USNWR.

I see strong opinions going both ways, so would be interesting to have some empirical evidence. I guess we're about to see, unless perhaps schools start adjusting admissions or whatever to improve.   [/quote]

The only school that I can remember plummeting like this is Oberlin and they seem to still be getting the kind of students that they've always gotten [/quote]

Data is here: https://www.aronfrishberg.com/projects/usnews.html . I only looked at couple that has dropped quite a bit in the past: UNC and Emory. I don't believe it affected them too much.[/quote]

Thinking about it, if a drop doesn't affect popularity that much, would you expect a rise to do so? Schools surely seem to believe it matters, issuing statements immediately when there's a drop and working hard to get favorable metrics (and from the little I've seen prep companies think it matters as well, and really think that's unfortunate as it distorts the process).

Maybe birth year cohorts are so large right now and have been trending up, paired with more internationals, such that it doesn't matter too much. The squeeze may come later as cohorts become smaller.

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