<p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>in the MID-70’s Penn and Cornell were “Highly Competitive.”</p>
<p>Also, re size, I recently read that by the late 1800’s, the 3 largest colleges in the country were Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Woah…Duke and UChicago don’t appear there in the “most selective” category, but a few schools that I previously hadn’t heard of appear there. </p>
<p>Maybe Cornell might not be at the bottom of the Ivy totem pole in 20 years…who knows?</p>
<p>There must have been a pretty big drop from “most competitive” to “highly competitive plus” back in 1980. Berkeley was listed in the latter category, but it was not all that difficult to get into in the early 1980s for those not choosing the most competitive majors (some specific engineering majors). However, competitiveness was increasing in the 1980s, to the point that by the mid-1980s, more students and parents were unpleasantly surprised by rejection letters.</p>
<p>To give an idea of the typical Berkeley frosh in the early 1980s, back then, more than half of the frosh had to take remedial English composition courses (now less than 10%), and the four and six year graduation rates were 31% and 75% (now 70% and 91%).</p>