<p>Prestigious U.S. research, technology, education is clustered in five regions--Boston (Harvard/MIT), N. California (Stanford/Berkeley), Raleigh-Durham (Duke/UNC), Chicago (UChicago/Northwestern) and New York (Columbia/NYU). Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton will fall behind and have the applicant numbers and yield rates of today's top LACs. </p>
<p>1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 MIT
4 Duke
5 Columbia
6 Chicago
7 Berkeley
8 Northwestern
9 UNC
10 Yale</p>
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MIT simply closes... and nobody cares.
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<p>More like USNWR simply stops production...and nobody cares.</p>
<p>I think that Olin might get pretty far up in the rankings, but who really knows.</p>
<p>USF was established in 1855. its quite older than 100 years</p>
<p>Online Universities will be ranked much, much higher due to the ability to teletransported into any classroom and not have to pay room and board expenses.</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Phoenix</li>
<li>Trump University</li>
</ol>
<p>Fundamentalist Christian schools are the "New Ivies," with the traditional Ivy League schools abandoned in light of a new typre of education, sponsored by the Republican Party and funded by the Huckabee "I believe everything the Bible says" Foundation.</p>
<p>Bob Jones establishes branch campuses in Cambridge, New Haven, and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Oh, and hamburgers will eat people.</p>
<p>Oberlin builds the Huckabee School of Tolerance.</p>
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Claremont McKenna College is only 60 years old and is ranked #11 for LACs. It is the youngest highly ranked college for both universities and LACs (that is a fact). Every other school ranked as high is well over a 100 years old. I expect that in maybe 10 or 20 years, when west coast schools become as prominent as east coast ones, Claremont McKenna's rank will skyrocket.</p>
<p>Year 2020:
1. Swarthmore
2. Amherst
3. Williams
4. Pomona
5. Claremont McKenna
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<p>And what about Harvey Mudd? It's been around for less time than McKenna and is already more selective and prestigious.</p>
<p>After another Bush presidency, gradates of Harvard and Yale are barred from elected office (honestly, when was the last time they produced a good candidate?). Much rejoicing ensues.</p>
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It's been around for less time than McKenna and is already more selective and prestigious.
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<p>Harvey Mudd more prestigious than CMC? Mmkay...</p>
<p>atomicfusion,</p>
<p>Lets take a look at Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd.</p>
<pre><code> CMC HMC
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<p>Year Founded......... 1946 1955
USNews Ranking...... 11 15
Admissions.............. 22% 30%</p>
<p>Yes, Harvey Mudd is a few years newer, but it is not more selective. I'm not sure about prestige. The reason why I don't have Harvey Mudd ranked in the top 5 LACs in 2020 is because it will still have competition. MIT and Caltech will still take students away from Harvey Mudd. However, I do think its ranking will also increase.</p>
<p>CMC
Year Found: 1946
LAC Ranking: 11
Acceptance: 22%</p>
<p>HMC
Year Found: 1955
LAC Ranking: 15
Acceptance: 30%</p>
<p>Sorry if it was hard to see in my post above.</p>
<p>Well, HMC is ranked #1 in selectivity by US News because its SAT scores are highest. But HMC is tiny; it's like saying Caltech is more selective than Stanford because its SAT scores are higher (but Caltech is substantially smaller, so that isn't so difficult to achieve).</p>
<p>I'd say HMC and CMC are roughly the same in selectivity; they just emphasize different things.</p>
<p>Besides Global Warming we will almost certainly have run out of oil and natural gas. The resulting problems in food production and transportation will almost certainly doom large urban areas, and areas without good proximity to food supplies and water ( see James Kuntslers book "The Long Emergency"). The ensuing financial crisis will almost certainly doom the budgets of most state governments as well as colleges that specialize in non essential programs such as law, and business. This gives the result that the pecking order of colleges will be determined by location, self sufficiency, usefullness and alumni network as well as the ability to be independent of state funding resulting in the following list.
1) Cornell-- high up, grows own food, makes own power, practical majors.
2) Dartmouth-- A kind of retreat from urban blight with good access to nature
3) Grinnell-- Reinvented as a private ag school in the heartland
4) RPI-- The new MIT as small Old Canal Cities Thrive
5) Syracuse-- Ditto
Schools that will be toast for sure.
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Penn
Brown
USC
Caltech
Stanford
All State Schools
MIT
Berkley</p>
<p>Rememeber Endowments will disappear in hyperinflation so only intrinsic merits will count not how much money a shool has.</p>
<p>Hydrogen, mate. So the Oil and Natural Gas part won't be that bad.</p>
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Besides Global Warming we will almost certainly have run out of oil and natural gas. The resulting problems in food production and transportation will almost certainly doom large urban areas
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<p>Except then--out of nowhere--Berkeley saves the day with its alternative fuels developed with the $500 million from BP.</p>
<p>University</a> of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Hooray!</p>
<p>=p</p>
<p>I'm sure that the final senior project at MIT before it closes will be to develop alternative fuels that are extremely efficient and cost-effective. So there is no need to worry about that.</p>
<p>I'm confident in our ability to shift to renewable resources when we actually have to. I am far more concerned about war and/or terrorism.</p>
<p>I think it's only a matter of time before somebody drive a little motorboat with an a-bomb into New York's harbor and levels Manhattan (and Columbia with it)</p>
<p>i see usc and tufts making leaps to elite status not too far from now.</p>
<p>Year 2020:
1. Swarthmore
2. Amherst
3. Williams
4. Bowdoin
5. Pomona
6. Claremont McKenna
7. Haverford
8. Middlebury
9. Hamilton
10. Davidson</p>
<p>C'mon guys.</p>
<p>Use your imaginations.</p>