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Meh, there are plenty of music festivals in the boonies, like Firefly. Gossip Girl and Sex in the City were earlier generations--our teens aren't marathon watching them. OK, maybe How I Met Your Mother and Big Little Lies, but Parks and Rec, Game of Thrones (for those whose parents let them), and House of Cards are just as big. Possibly your teens are watching Sex and the City, but mine and the ones I know aren't. So I'd be wary of generalizing.

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Obama? He went to Occidental, Columbia and Harvard.

Curious about why you think social media is pushing kids to cities. Could you elaborate?

Obama taught at Chicago, Chicago published his memoir, his top aids are from Chicago, library going on Chicago's campus.

If you look at teens' social media and snapchats, they love concerts, cityscapes, skyscrapers, brick alleys, cafes and urban scenes. Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, young celebrities probably helped fuel this.

Traditionally, the "college vibe" was isolated small quant college town ... now it seems most kids crave an urban setting with big city aesthetics.

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Obama? He went to Occidental, Columbia and Harvard.

Curious about why you think social media is pushing kids to cities. Could you elaborate?

Obama taught at Chicago, Chicago published his memoir, his top aids are from Chicago, library going on Chicago's campus.

If you look at teens' social media and snapchats, they love concerts, cityscapes, skyscrapers, brick alleys, cafes and urban scenes. Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, young celebrities probably helped fuel this.

Traditionally, the "college vibe" was isolated small quant college town ... now it seems most kids crave an urban setting with big city aesthetics.

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Obama? He went to Occidental, Columbia and Harvard.

Curious about why you think social media is pushing kids to cities. Could you elaborate?

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago's rise is stupid and bothers me

I think it's a great school. But the fact that they basically carpet bomb kids with flyers from sophomore year drives up apps, and drives down admit rates, in a way that few other schools engage in.

ehhh Obama (& Axelrod) gave it a bigger boost than mailers. And I think social media has played a part in kids seeking out big major cities for college.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago's rise is stupid and bothers me

I think it's a great school. But the fact that they basically carpet bomb kids with flyers from sophomore year drives up apps, and drives down admit rates, in a way that few other schools engage in.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago's rise is stupid and bothers me

I think it's a great school. But the fact that they basically carpet bomb kids with flyers from sophomore year drives up apps, and drives down admit rates, in a way that few other schools engage in.

Anonymous wrote:UChicago's rise is stupid and bothers me

Anonymous wrote:HYPS individually are far from perfect schools. Their PR machines are great though!

Anonymous wrote:TheTimes has a comparable ranking:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/united-states/2017#!/page/0/length/100/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats

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Anonymous wrote:I'm only truly interested or impressed by Harvard , Princeton, Yale, MIT, Hopkins, Annapolis, West Point , Stanford.

Those are the eight indespensable national treasures all for different reasons. All the others are just a mishmash.

First, it's interested in, not interested by. Second, Hopkins? Really?

The best medical school and most massive research budget by a huge margin. The United States has decided it is indespensable.

And it probably has pp for an alum or the parent of a current student. I suspect personal connections are a common denominator for all the posters making extreme declarations in favor of Notre Dame, Pomona, CalTech, and so on....

?? All of those are schools considered to be in the top of their respective categories? Why are you surprised to see them talked about?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm only truly interested or impressed by Harvard , Princeton, Yale, MIT, Hopkins, Annapolis, West Point , Stanford.

Those are the eight indespensable national treasures all for different reasons. All the others are just a mishmash.

First, it's interested in, not interested by. Second, Hopkins? Really?

The best medical school and most massive research budget by a huge margin. The United States has decided it is indespensable.

And it probably has pp for an alum or the parent of a current student. I suspect personal connections are a common denominator for all the posters making extreme declarations in favor of Notre Dame, Pomona, CalTech, and so on....