What will be interesting to see is what ultimately happens to the reputations of the Ivies that remain very popular among foreigners. I have not idea how this will work out and am just throwing the thought into the pot. But, a lot of the kids attending Harvard, Yale, etc. are the global oligarchic elite. They are wealthy and are from the powerful parts of their respective societies. But, I don't know how many of them are actually that smart and/or have a lot of intellectual drive or what their work ethics might be like. A lot of them are also beneficiaries of gains from corruption and so may lose all they have fairly quickly. The point being that they may not be the Nobels, Pulitzers, Gates, etc. of the future. Those may start to be produced by the kids who are graduating from the non-top 20/50 or whatever. Will be interesting to see.

Don't mean to hijack this discussion so will start a new thread on this New Yorker article on the Political discussion board.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Until they run out of money.

or run out of water!

Or the big one finally hits.

Speaking of the big one, check out this horrifying article about the potential for a huge quake in the Pacific Northwest:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

ETH Zurich

Top German schools like TUM and Freiburg and Heidelberg

Anonymous wrote:Stanford and Berkeley.

Seriously? These 2 schools have been top notch for as long as I can remember. The OP was asking for the next hot college which I took to mean one that wasn't too much on people's radar screen, but now seems to be everywhere...Stanford and Berkeley are certainly not new to the "scene"

U of Richmond

Stanford and Berkeley.

Radford

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Until they run out of money.

or run out of water!

Or the big one finally hits.

Anonymous wrote:Until they run out of money.

or run out of water!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bama has been making a huge push to recruit out-of-state students.

It's tuition for out of staters is also very reasonable and the academic bar isn't that high. So lots of kids can go out of a state with B - C averages.

The average HS GPA at Bama is a 3.6. That's not a B or a C. It's not that difficult, but you still have to be a decent student (or a football player).

A lot of these big football schools are harder to get into than people in the Northeast assume.

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=469

I put more faith in the SAT score than a GPA which can be inflated. Average English Math SAT 1131 (okay, but certainly not A or even high B material), Average SAT with writing 1679 -- again, not impressive.

Until they run out of money.

Any and every college in California. Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, and UCLA, of course, but also Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Scripps (all of the Claremont colleges really), USC, and also UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Occidental, hell, even Cal State Chico and East Los Angeles College. California is where it's at again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bama has been making a huge push to recruit out-of-state students.

It's tuition for out of staters is also very reasonable and the academic bar isn't that high. So lots of kids can go out of a state with B - C averages.

The average HS GPA at Bama is a 3.6. That's not a B or a C. It's not that difficult, but you still have to be a decent student (or a football player).

A lot of these big football schools are harder to get into than people in the Northeast assume.

http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg02_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=469

Anonymous wrote:Bama has been making a huge push to recruit out-of-state students.

It's tuition for out of staters is also very reasonable and the academic bar isn't that high. So lots of kids can go out of a state with B - C averages.