Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 10:42     Subject: “Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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


Purdue is another very good aerospace engineering program (and good in many other disciplines as well).
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 10:23     Subject: “Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:The women’s colleges seem to be experiencing a surge in interest and applications. Mount Holyoke, Smith, Bryan Mawr.


Good!
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 10:22     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Pitt seems inordinately popular!


As does USC (S. Carolina).


USC (S. Carolina) surprises me every year - but USC gives LOTS of merit aid to kids in the donut hole - so it shouldn't be that surprising.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 09:30     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Bates had a huge jump in applications, I think they went up 45% and admit rate went way down as a result.


How odd.


It's test optional. Probably a big draw.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 08:58     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:Bates had a huge jump in applications, I think they went up 45% and admit rate went way down as a result.


How odd.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 08:57     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:NYU
Davidson
Macalester
Pitzer
Occidental
Reed
USC

Lots of interest of going west!


Going west for these two powerfully second rate CA schools on your list and one that is vastly overrated and still has an inferiority complex?
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 08:53     Subject: “Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Tulane, UC Boulder, NYU.


Huge surge in applications at NYU. Went from 35% admit rate in 2016 to 28% in 2017 to 19% this year.


Why, one wonders.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 08:21     Subject: “Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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 M arylands .



Not way better . M arylands is ranked 9th in the country .

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-doctorate-aerospace-aeronautical-astronautical
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 08:10     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?




In VA, “hot” schools that are not well ranked are nothing more than places where the kids of privileged people go when the kids get turned down by UVA and/or William and Mary.

This is not only untrue, it's also obnoxious.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 08:05     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Purdue is popular for Engineering. I know a few each year in NOVA the turn down Tech for it and a few that go because they could not get to not Tech. More apply every year from our highschool. They have a much more collaborative program and Tech is still preaching every man for himself.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 07:45     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Trending away from East Coast:

Tulane
Auburn
Clemson

Denison
Kenyon
Wooster

USC
Occidental
Santa Barbara

Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 07:18     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
NYU
Davidson
Macalester
Pitzer
Occidental
Reed
USC

Lots of interest of going west!
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 07:18     Subject: “Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 07:11     Subject: “Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
U of RICHMOND.
Anonymous
Post 05/28/2018 07:03     Subject: Re:“Hot Colleges” (2018 admissions cycle)?
Bates had a huge jump in applications, I think they went up 45% and admit rate went way down as a result.