Re: post 37. Please…I’m not meaning to be offensive…but I’ve never heard NYU being described as an “elite school”.
Colorado college and Bates. Have always thought of both as good schools. Was shocked to see how selective both have become.
@BeeDAre - a friend of ours’ daughter graduated from Beloit and loved it up there. We heard only good things. But honestly I hadn’t heard of Beloit much before that.
@Knittergirrl Not easy to transfer into CS once a student?
@thumper1 - my kid is at NYU and I wouldn’t call it an “elite” school- but it is selective, and had gotten more and more so over the last few years
Changing into the CS major at CMU is difficult. To even be eligible to apply a student needs to have a 3.6 college GPA in the CS prerequisite courses and a 3.0 GPA overall. But admission to the CS major is competitive and limited to space available (presumably through attrition, which is likely minimal) even if one is eligible to apply.
https://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/content/guidelines-transfer-dual-degree-minor-and-double-major-cs
I live and have always lived just a few hours drive from Notre Dame but I wasn’t until relatively recently that I became aware that it was a highly selective school. Probably because I never knew anyone who would have considered going there. It’s just off the radar in my area, a predominately Jewish one and in my workplace ( ditto). When I became aware I felt really provincial, like " gee I need to get out in the world more. ". Lol.
@toowonderful I agree, it has become more difficult to gain admission to NYU. And I’m not knocking the school. It’s a fine school. But I agree with you…not elite.
I thought Stern at NYU was extremely selective?
Oh, @SouthFloridaMom9 , we took D up to visit Beloit, and I thought it was great, pleasantly surprised. I encouraged D to apply, but she thought it was too small.
I was also surprised that many of the students leading the tour were from all over the country.
@thumper1, ouch!
NYU is “unbalanced” like UIUC with some schools/departments considered elite by people in those fields and are much more selective than other parts of the university.
Tufts. I worked with a woman who had failed out of RPI but finished her degree at Tufts. She said the curriculum was a joke. When a friend’s son decided to go there, I assumed he wanted to be in Boston but couldn’t get into any of the other colleges there.
Georgetown is another one. It had the reputation as a place for rich kids who wanted to study government. It now shows up toward the top for many majors.
“Tufts.”
No kidding. 20 years ago, Elaine Benes complained, “I had to go to Tufts! It was my safety school!”
Boy, is that dated nowadays.
A lot of us probably couldn’t get into our alma maters today…
All of the comments about Beloit are making me chuckle. I grew up in the Midwest and had heard of the school, but thought “who would want to go to such a nothing place when there are all the Big 10 Us available.” Gladly eating my words as the parent of a Beloiter. I am in love with the place even more after seeing my D blossom there.
USC used to have an 80% admit rate, and it stood for “University of Spoiled Children”. Similar situation w GWU.
@uclaparent9: You said, "But he was smart to select you! Right? "
That is especially funny to me because I’m the reason he passed High School Chemistry. He WAS smart enough to latch onto someone who could help him! But it does make me think Rice wasn’t all that selective in the early 80’s.
Georgetown was pretty selective back when I was looking at colleges in the late 70’s early 80’s. It was never easy to get in to, especially anything related to international service, politics etc
@PurpleTitan - I agree with you that some parts of NYU are incredibly tough admits. My D is in Tisch- and her particular program has a 6% admit rate- which is elite (it is consistently ranked among the top in the world) but the university as whole is generally 25-30% admit rate, which I would call highly selective, but not elite. JMHO
Summer and early fall of 2011, second son had his knickers in knots about his application to UNC-CH.
The HS guidance office had sent his transcript prior to the date when the GPA and class rank had been added, and we HAD to have it re-sent.
“Jeeze, it’s just another OOS flagship. I know it’s your fav., but lighten up!” -pretty sure I actually said that to him.
I had no clue that UNC was so difficult to get into as an OOS student.