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Anonymous wrote:GT is a good school but it’s no mit.

Well, MIT is the best engineering school in the country. So you have a point. But it is ranked 4th in the country in engineering. If you are serious about engineering, it is an excellent consolation prize.

GT has the best aerospace engineering program in the U.S. It's almost impossible to get into, especially OOS

Interesting. I know that it’s way better than Maryland’s.

Maryland is in the top 10. It isn’t that much better.

Really? May be it is not much better in Aerospace on your scales, but in everything else engineering UMD is not even close...
This year MD is only 12th in aerospace. By the way, did you realized that VT is also better in engineering than UMD? UMD is general university. Any Tech is mostly focuses on Tech subjects (engineering and science.)
This is like to compare apples and oranges, and concluded that fruits can be grown successfully in any garden because apricots had good crop last year.
Some resent stat for GT (undergraduate) for you:
#8 (tie) in Top Public Schools
#6 (tie) in Management Information Systems
#7 (tie) in Production / Operation Management
#7 in Quantitative Analysis
#8 (tie) in Supply Chain Management / Logistics
#4 (tie) in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs
#2 in Aerospace /Aeronautical / Astronautical Eng
#3 in Biomedical Eng
#2 in Chemical Eng
#2 in Civil Eng
#5 in Computer Eng
#4 in Electrical / Electronic / Communications Eng
#4 in Environmental / Environmental Health
#1 in Industrial / Manufacturing Eng
#3 in Materials Eng
#2 in Mechanical Eng

Sorry, I am biased. OOS tuition and acceptance rate for OOS are big issues at GT. Yes it is not MIT, but it is way more advanced than UMD in STEM fields.
I get it that South/Atlanta is not for everyone.
Ga Tech graduate in a field that GaTech is #1 for last 30 years...

My DD would agree with you. She liked Tulane on paper and loved NOLA, but she took it off her list after visiting. Yes, the dorms were sad.

I am curious why Tulane is so popular. I mean I love NOLA more than most cities, but Tulane just wasn't that great in my opinion. I hear their dorms are abysmal too.

Most popular choices for Holton class of 18 were WUSTL (6), NYU (4), Harvard (3), Penn (3) and Georgetown (3).

Most popular for STA: Chicago (8), Tulane (5), Yale (3), Emory (3), Bates (3).

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont

Just another marketing gimmick to sell a book to rubes. And Miami has a 65% admit rate.......I shudder to think of who they actually reject.

VT has a 71% admit rate.

Admit rates now that kids have Naviance and Common Data Set are totally misleading. For the most part, kids only spend their money/time applying to colleges that they have a decent shot of getting into and maybe one or two reaches. So it's not a big deal to accept 70% of students if they are mainly above 1300 SATs and 3.75 GPAs. So it's not surprising that schools have high admit rates. Look at the scores of the entering student bodies--that will tell you the caliber of students in the school. This is why USNWR has taken acceptance rate off the formula--it was being gamed without offering meaningful insight.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont

Just another marketing gimmick to sell a book to rubes. And Miami has a 65% admit rate.......I shudder to think of who they actually reject.

VT has a 71% admit rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont

Just another marketing gimmick to sell a book to rubes. And Miami has a 65% admit rate.......I shudder to think of who they actually reject.

Take your meds.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont

Just another marketing gimmick to sell a book to rubes. And Miami has a 65% admit rate.......I shudder to think of who they actually reject.

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Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont

Also they give great merit aid to high stats kids.

Anonymous wrote:Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern
Univ Col Boulder
College of Charleston
Denison
Elon
Tulane
Wisconsin
Alabama
Arizona State
Rochester

Our schools seems to show the opposite for Alabama. It has really dropped in the number of app from 17 in 2017 to just 2 in 2018. Delaware also had a large drop from 47 to 21.

Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go. It is full of preppy white kids. Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings. It was weird. But they like their niche

Looking at the Naviance data from our MoCo HS and looking at the increase in applications from 2016 to 2018 the following schools saw the biggest increases:

UMD
Pitt
Wisconsin
William & Mary
NYU
Miami Ohio

Northeastern
Univ Col Boulder
College of Charleston
Denison
Elon
Tulane
Wisconsin
Alabama
Arizona State
Rochester

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Anonymous wrote:Northwestern.

Umm. No.

NP.. How can you disagree with what someone else is seeing as “hot” colleges in their school or social circle?

Northwestern has always been hot - not something specific to 2018.