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HYP and some other far thinking schools will have purchased land in the West (maybe Arizona) and built campuses so they can survive and still maintain their rankings.
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PSHH...MIT will have moved to Jupiter by then</p>
<p>it would be cheaper to surround their campuses with dykes</p>
<p>Smith already has that covered.</p>
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<li>University of Phoenix
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<p>Because they're "Thinking Ahead."</p>
<p>California schools will rise in the league tables as the state of California will further boom so would be the companies there, specifically the dotcom industries that diversifies, will grow bigger and bigger. Also, several cities in California will be included in the list of largest cities in the world, leading that would be LA, SF and SD. The population of California will constitute to about 25% of the population of the whole USA. And when that happens, the ranking of schools would become something like this.</p>
<p>HYPSM
UC Berkeley/Caltech
Duke /Columbia/Chicago/UPenn/ UCLA / USC / Rice / JHU / UCSD
NU/ Washington U / UMich / UVa</p>
<p>Notre Dame/Georgetown/Emory/Vandebilt/ UC schools</p>
<p>Until California falls into the ocean. Not to mention demographic drivers have shifted to the American south and southwest. The 2010 census is predicted to be the first in which CA no longer gains new Congressional seats.</p>
<p>Still a lovely state, though. Just not for me</p>
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Until California falls into the ocean.
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<p>Technically speaking, in a very large earthquake LA will move further north toward San Francisco...not slip off and fall into the ocean, as commonly believed. ;)</p>
<p>The LA Basin and San Diego are on the Pacific plate, while the rest of the United States is attached to the North American plate. The boundary is the San Andreas fault, which is a strike-slip fault.</p>
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Really, 100 years is too far to tell. I'm sure that by then, many will have risen in ranks, many will have dipped in ranks. But Berkeley at the same US News rank as it is now, even though it's clear that it's making leaps in its offerings? UCLA not on the list at all? USC that high despite the fact that it doesn't have the resources to go anywhere near that, and despite the fact that MIT has many more resources and is ranked behind it? Right.
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<p>Wait, isn't USC the ONLY school to receive a single solid donation f over $100million and haven't they received over 100 million dollars from donations THREE TIMES? Not to mention their notable alumni, strong and growing network and connections all throughout the world. I know more people who are familiar with USC than places like Brown, Cal Tech, MIT, etc. Most people i know don't even REALIZE the caliber of MIT and Caltech. IDK, but to say USC doesn't have the resources to jump that high is absurd, its more of a question of how they put their resources to use.</p>
<p>^ The question here is: can USC's alumni sustain the huge giving donations?</p>
<p>Also, if you think USC's wealth is ballooning, so are the others. I don't even think USC's endowment fund would surpass that of Berkeley's that state schools are learning the importance of endowment funds and are massively generating their resources to raise funds from private donors and alumni.</p>
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Wait, isn't USC the ONLY school to receive a single solid donation f over $100million and haven't they received over 100 million dollars from donations THREE TIMES?
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<p>I'm pretty sure Columbia recently got a $400 million donation. Yale got a $100 million donation a few years ago. Brown also got a $100 million donation. Penn got a $100 million donation a few years back. And I'm sure HYPS have gotten 'em too.</p>
<p>In the next 100 years a number of radical changes will take place in the US and across the educational spectrum:</p>
<p>A rising ocean renders major areas along the east coast of the US unlivable. Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Brown, Penn and Yale are severely affected.</p>
<p>Columbia, seeking higher ground, merges with Princeton in an uneasy alliance. Alumni giving drops precipitiously. (Princeton alums think the merger "yucky") There is a massive faculty exodus to Big Ten universities, as the already low quality of life in New Jersey rapidly deteriorates.</p>
<p>Harvard seeks a merger with up-country Dartmouth, but is spurned. Harvard, holding its nose, finally agrees to become affiliated with Cornell to create a new academic superpower high above Cayuga's waters. </p>
<p>Ever-indepedent Dartmouth eventually integrates Amherst, who gets tired of its perennial Avis-like number two LAC status. Dartmouth, unable to withstand Amherst's continual whinning, finally agrees to take them in. Dartmouth's president describes the decision as "an act of charity", emphasizing the school's name will remain, forever, Dartmouth College. </p>
<p>In a fit of panic, Yale takes refuge in Middleton, CT through a partnership with Wesleyan. After several years operating as Yale Wesleyan University, the school reverts back to simply Yale. However, the institution is infected with a nascent Political Correctness (PC) cultural virus left over at Wes from the early 21st century and the quality of the academic program, especially in the Humanities and Social Sciences, erodes. </p>
<p>MIT simply closes... and nobody cares. </p>
<p>Brown finds very comfortable accomodation in Poughkeepsie, where with elegant Vassar College, the open curriculum takes deep root. After one of the largest campus expansions in US history, Vassar-Brown University, with its fashion-forward pink and brown colors, and its new motto, "Where the Exception is Always Exceptional", becomes the first official "gay university" in the US. </p>
<p>Penn moves to Saint Louis and becomes part of WUStL. In announcing the new alliance, called WPUStL its presidents, in a joint statement, refer to a "common culture". "Penn and WUSTL have for so long lived just outside the circle of greatness that we are both very comfortable there."</p>
<p>The Main Line schools, Swarthmore, Haverford and Bryn Mawr merge to form SHBM College and enjoy great popularity as one of the only LACs with a sea coast location. </p>
<p>In a move to address students' interest in cities, Carleton buys Macalester and turns Mac's urban campus into its departments of International Affairs and Foreign Languages. Similarly, Williams merges with Wellesley (the last single sex hold-out) and treats the Wellesley, now seafront, campus as centers for oceanography and US maritime history and as a museum of the once popular and now defunct gender studies. </p>
<p>Berkeley and Stanford are leveled in a series of severe earthquakes. They merge to form a new quasi-public/private entity and relocate to Reno, now part of California. They derive a large part of their revenues through legalized gambling and become in the words of one dean, "richer than God."</p>
<p>Grinnell College, with an ever-increasing endowment buys the Univeristy of Iowa and privatizes it. As one of the beneficiaries of the great Princeton-Columbia faculty exodus and with the country's third highest endowment, it challenges Cornell-Harvard as the country's top university. </p>
<p>The State of Michigan goes bankrupt affecting quality of academic and athletic programs at Big Blue. </p>
<p>Southern California is beset by borders wars with Mexico. UCLA, UCal Irvine and UCSD are sold to the Chinese, whose military, with the help of the US, attempts to quell border skirmishes with Mexico. This new system is renamed the Univesity of China, at Los Angeles, at Irvine and at San Diego respectively. Academic quality increases as the quality of the social life and the athletics programs plummet. Oddly, piano and violin are the only two musical instruments taught in these universities. The new UCLA becomes the new MIT. </p>
<p>Duke, in a pique of greed, agrees to be bought out by the entertainment giant Disney and becomes a kind of preppy Collegiate Gothic themepark. Lacrosse players are selected for "looks" and sociability with tourists. Its basketball team officially turns professional, integrates with the Charlotte Hornets and is spun off as a separate money-making enterprise. The Duke, and its basketball team, stocks trade on the NASDAQ. An avatar who looks like Ralph Lauren runs Duke. He is frequently heard saying, "One doesn't need a real education today, one needs the illusion of an education and no one provides this patina better than Duke." </p>
<p>University of Chicago is simply deemed obsolete and languishes as a fringe, dark, cult-like and unpopular school.</p>
<p>Most southern state universities are purchased by NFL teams with the college teams becoming official minor league teams of the "pros". Ball players are paid employees, attendance in classes is purely optional. Academic quality increases dramatically. </p>
<p>Second tier LACs are purchased by larger state systems (e.g. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio). The most successful is the Ohio system which runs great liberal arts programs at Ohio State-Oberlin; Ohio State-Kenyon; Ohio State- Wooster; and Ohio State-Denison.</p>
<p>Top Universities:</p>
<p>Cornell-Harvard University
Grinnell University
Berkeley-Stanford University
University of China, Los Angeles</p>
<p>Top LACs:</p>
<p>Dartmouth College
SHBM College (Swartmore Haverford Bryn Mawr College)
Carleton-Macalester College
Williams-Wellesley College</p>
<p>You are so bored</p>
<p>... and boring.</p>
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MIT simply closes... and nobody cares.
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<p>lol so true.</p>
<p>Apparently, Ernie H and prefrosh don't like how things turn out for Princeton and Wesleyan, respectively in 2108. ;)</p>
<p>But balletgirl, you skipped over NU! I'm dying to know, what will happen to my Alma Mater!</p>
<p>^^
Northwestern is forced to leave its lakeside Evanston campus due to massive coastal erosion. McDonalds graciously hosts NU for several years at its Hamburger University facility and environs in Oak Brook, before it permanently settles in a defunct Motorola facility in Schaumberg. The state of North Illinois claims NU through right of eminent domain in 2092. Since succession in 2085, South Illinois has maintained a tight grip on the university in Champagne-Urbana and now North Illinois needs its public university. Under state support, the Wildcats reclaim their rightful place in the Big Ten and demonstrate gridiron dominance not seen in nearly 150 years -- since the 1930s, the days of Otto Graham, the 1949 Rose Bowl championship and the era of Ara Parseghian. In essence, NU becomes the kick-ass, Big Ten, public university it always knew was deep inside it.</p>
<p>Actually, Balletgirl's history is pretty good. With one glaring omission: In 2098, an investigation of Dartmouth's endowment by New Hampshire Attorney General Bode Miller IV discovers that the college for more than a century has been a disguised beer delivery system, funded by Coors through cut-out offshore investment vehicles set up by rightwing investment-banking alums in the Cayman Islands. In the school's settlement with the state and the SEC, it agrees to a takeover by the nascent National Beer Pong Association and becomes a permanent training facility for the 2108 Olympic Drinking Team. Happily, nothing about the school's programs or culture had to change.</p>
<p>Lol. Funny stuff, that. Would love to read more ;).</p>
<p>I like the SwatHavMawr idea. It's like Claremont's consortium just outside of Philly...</p>
<p>Besides which, by 2108, UChicago will be the only school in the nation to have the Common App. All other schools will have gone to neural scans.</p>