<p>The Ohio State University - The Only Big Ten School that I see on this list!! </p>
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<p>Go Bucks!! :)</p>
<p>Ohio State is an AMAZING place… so much infectious spirit on campus! Academically as well. Its academic standards and selectivity are quickly increasing. It is quite clear after visiting both campuses last fall why Ohio State and UCincinnati are considered “schools on the rise.” Definitely considering going to Ohio State for grad school. Gordon Gee is doing a fabulous job running the place.</p>
<p>By the way, I also just noticed that U of Southern California made the USNWR list, which is no surprise.</p>
<p>^^ Smart Choice!!! O-H~</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Ohio State’s Thompson Library: History and Architecture](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtsljAbXUc&feature=PlayList&p=EF630280A2D297D2&index=1]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTtsljAbXUc&feature=PlayList&p=EF630280A2D297D2&index=1)</p>
<p>~I-O"! I love OSU’s advertisements (I think some are on youtube and on the OSU main page) where they have people making the “O-H~I-O” hand signs in places around the world.</p>
<p>I also didn’t apply to Michigan because I strongly believe that the opportunities at Ohio State are just as good as the ones at Michigan. It may not have the prestige of Michigan, but I didn’t care. Plus, how can I ever wear blue and yellow ;)</p>
<p>woudl you guys say that Santa Clara is on the rise? At least on the west coast?</p>
<p>Tulane is definitely on the rise in many aspects. They have had an amazing increase in applications, going from about 18,000 to 34,000 to 40,000 in the last 3 years, and this year might be about 44,000. And before anyone says it is all due to the free app, they started that back in 2002, with some success but nothing like the numbers they are now seeing. IMO, it is due to the desire among students to help rebuild New Orleans, the generous merit scholarships, and the significant increase in the quality of the students with average SAT/ACT scores rising quite a lot since 2002 (something like 120 points on the SAT to 1365 CR+M).</p>
<p>I believe that Chicago has the fastest rising reputation in America (applications up 42% - nearly 60% EA). Typically, selectivity and a high acceptance rate have plagued them in the rankings (despite a respectable rank of 8), but that is currently changing. Matriculation rate should rise a bit with the concentration on admitting EA applicants (those who having a higher likelihood of attending) but will not rise considerably until its financial aid program is more generous.</p>
<p>In the LAC category, DePauw, Sewanee and Furman either have or will have new Presidents. The new President at DePauw has exciting changes planned. It is too early to tell about the others but they have created excitement. </p>
<p>University of Richmond should also be mentioned as a school on the rise. I would also add St Olaf.</p>
<p>Add William & Mary to that list. Apps have almost doubled over the past several years. If the football and basketball programs continue to have success (beat Virginia in football, Wake Forest, Maryland in BBall) this trend will definitely continue.</p>
<p>I think Duke deserves mention. The applications for ED were up 33% this year, and RD applications were also on the rise. The endowment has also risen substantially during the last decade, despite the setbacks of the recession.</p>
<p>"I also didn’t apply to Michigan because I strongly believe that the opportunities at Ohio State are just as good as the ones at Michigan. </p>
<p>Of course you do since you’re from Ohio. Meanwhile, most of the rest of us in the normal world would disagree with you.</p>
<p>I do consider Michigan a better school academically and more prestigious, but frankly, I think Ohio State has improved so much over the past decade that the same quality education can now be received at Ohio State, especially in the honors and scholars program. I think people hype up Michigan too much on CC as well. Most people in the normal world won’t care if you went to Ohio State or Michigan. CC does not constitute the normal world.</p>
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Duke’s reputation and academics are about as good as they’re going to get.</p>
<p>If your school isn’t in or near a major city or innovation cluster, long-term outlook is negative.</p>
<p>“I do consider Michigan a better school academically and more prestigious, but frankly, I think Ohio State has improved so much over the past decade that the same quality education can now be received at Ohio State, especially in the honors and scholars program. I think people hype up Michigan too much on CC as well. Most people in the normal world won’t care if you went to Ohio State or Michigan. CC does not constitute the normal world.”</p>
<p>Read my original response again. Remove those Buckeye sunglasses. I agree that the UOS, I mean tOSU is getting better, but it has a quite a ways to go until it can claim to be Michigan’s equal.</p>
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I am sorry, but that is just silly. I could spend time and space giving hundreds of examples of successful people that have garduated from such schools, and I could refute it on other grounds, especially in today’s hi-tech world, but I think I don’t need to.</p>
<p>Strong Public Universities and Colleges. </p>
<p>In NY, more students are taking a second look at the SUNYs i.e. Geneseo, Binghamton, New Paltz, Buffalo, Stonybrook, Oneonta etc.</p>
<p>Very true Genedeograd, especially in this economy.</p>
<p>[Admissions.com</a> :: News :: Dr. Kat?s List: Colleges that Have Risen to Prominence in the Past 25 Years](<a href=“http://www.admissions.com/news/applywise-up-and-coming]Admissions.com”>http://www.admissions.com/news/applywise-up-and-coming)</p>
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<p>I don’t really agree with this. Although I think Duke is one of the better non-ivy schools out there that isn’t Stanford or MIT, I don’t believe it is “on the rise.” </p>
<p>It seems to me that Duke reached its peak in the late nineties when it reached #3 in the USN&WR rankings and its basketball team was a perennial final four team.</p>
<p>While Duke’s endowment has risen substantially during the last decade, in the current recession, its endowment took one of the heaviest hits of any non-HYPS school. (It lost approximately 27 or 28 percent of its endowment in the last fiscal year.) </p>
<p>When Coach K retires and he will soon if not eventually, watch Duke start losing more cross-admits to its southern rivals such as Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, etc. The main thing that separates Duke right now from these schools is not its academics but its sports.</p>
<p>Duke is a very good school and arguably the best school in the south right now. But it is not “on the rise.” It is not clear how long it will continue to be definitively the best southern school. </p>
<p>Rice offers more merit scholarships and has lower tuition, not to mention a higher per capita endowment. Emory offers a cosmopolitan city with an equal endowment. Vanderbilt is becoming less and less regional by the day and the surroundings of Nashville offer a better social enviroment than those of Durham. At least the town-gown relations are much better.</p>
<p>Finally, while Duke’s ED applications were up 33%. Its overall applications were up 11 or 12%, which is not much higher than many of its peers such as Northwestern or UPenn. Of the two schools in the USN&WR top ten that is not an Ivy or Stanford/MIT/Caltech, UChicago saw a much more impressive (42%) rise in applications than Duke.</p>