<p>^^^</p>
<p>Awww…I’m so sad…a ■■■■■ just insulted my school. ROFL </p>
<p>You dont even dare to mention your school’s name in CC. Why?
Is it because you scared others will do the same thing to your school and you have nothing to defend it with? ^.~
OR you are just too ashamed of your own school?
OR your school is not even ranked in any ranking system because they take in people like you? =P</p>
<p>I go to an HYPSM school, which already has godly status in CC (and the real world). </p>
<p>So I don’t feel the need to ever promote or defend it. I don’t even post in my school’s forum because a) I already know what’s going on in the school that I attend and b) I don’t want to be seen as begging prospective applicants to apply to my school, like WUSTL supporters have been known to do. </p>
<p>More importantly, where I go to school is entirely irrelevant to my arguments. Do you understand the meaning of “ad hominem”?</p>
<p>Now, if you aren’t suffering from massive status-anxiety attacks about WUSTL, you wouldn’t take the time and effort to reply to my every post about your school.</p>
<p>If you’re secure about WUSTL’s place in higher education, why do you care what I or any other WUSTL critics (there are so many in CC) have to say? Because you know what we say is true and you’re too afraid to admit it.</p>
<p>And I will continue to call out WUSTL as long as it waitlists or will waitlist my overqualified (current and future) classmates who have or will have received multiple acceptances to the other HYPSM schools.</p>
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<p>Does anybody have the title to the College Towns article so I can google it? Alternatively, please PM me the link. Thanks.</p>
<p>"I go to an HYPSM school, which already has godly status in CC (and the real world). "</p>
<p>Yeah, rite. That’s the same as saying I dont want to talk about my school…it’s too painful.</p>
<p>“If you’re secure about WUSTL’s place in higher education, why do you care what I or any other WUSTL critic has to say?”</p>
<p>Because you are not a WUSTL critic and you know it. =)</p>
<p>“I will continue to call out WUSTL as long as it waitlists or will waitlist my overqualified (current and future) classmates who have or will have received multiple acceptances to the other HYPSM schools.”</p>
<p>And I will just have to continue toying with you until I dont find you interesting anymore. =P</p>
<p>Sorry you didn’t get into an ivy…</p>
<p>“Sorry you didn’t get into an ivy…”</p>
<p>Yeah…but that’s because I didnt apply to one. =P</p>
<p>And because you have a hard time with rejection…</p>
<p>“And because you have a hard time with rejection…”</p>
<p>You must be talking to a mirror. =D</p>
<p>^ lame comeback.</p>
<p>here comes yet another one in 3, 2, 1…</p>
<p>Why are the Cal State Universities (CSUs) on this list? What’s so “hot” about them?</p>
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<p>WOW.</p>
<p>WOW.</p>
<p>WOW. Is this the reason? WashU is overrated.</p>
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Base off the schools I’m informed about the list looks understandable. Though I’am surprise to not see Minnesota on the list since recently within a decade they made out of state tuition more affordable. I’am also surprise not to see Boston University on the list.</p>
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Google “smartest college towns.” </p>
<p>I like the list a lot.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, IB. You’re right, it’s a good read.</p>
<p>“Why are the Cal State Universities (CSUs) on this list? What’s so “hot” about them?”</p>
<p>Personally, I think SDSU is the only hot one. All the hot girls in CA want to go there for the surf, sun, and life is a beach. It’s also much easier than UCSD and laid back so you can have a life.</p>
<p>SDSU gets the largest number of applicants in the US (maybe 60,000 in 2009 … it was around 47000 in 2007). They admit
more than 40%.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t Brown be on this list?</p>
<p>And other Ivies with honorable mention compared to where they were in 2000 would be Columbia and Penn.</p>
<p>^ Brown and all other Ivies are perennially hot. Unless you go back decades to when Brown and Penn were considered safeties in prep school circles. Admit rates have dropped pretty much across the board at Ivies and at many other top-N schools. For the most part, this seems to be driven by national demographics. A falling admit rate is not necessarily a good criterion for “hotness” if we’re talking about a rising tide lifting all boats.</p>
<p>In a few cases it is also driven by changes in how a school is marketed. Chicago’s admit rate has been plummeting as it slightly relaxed Core requirements, adopted the Common App, changed admission directors, and pursued an aggressive drive to increase the number of applications. Do the recent admit rates show “hotness”? Maybe … though I suspect they are admitting pretty much the same kind of kids they always did (with slightly higher stats), while rejecting more who would never even have applied 15 years ago. I doubt they are attracting significantly more of the students with astonishing ECs, hooks, household names and backstories who distinguish a few perennially hot schools (like HYPS). The place has always been more focused on turning out college professors and policy wonks than the Masters of the Universe who weigh and consider their advice.</p>
<p>Columbia is an interesting case. Public perceptions of NYC have changed in 15 years or so. Columbia may be riding that wave. Perhaps Penn’s popularity will take a little hit as some students reassess the attractiveness of careers in finance.</p>
<p>Two schools on the list share the same syndrome: WUSTL and Tufts (its namesake).</p>
<p>For those who wish to ignore certain people’s posts: many of you have probably already done this, but for those who haven’t:</p>
<p>Go into “my control panel”. Under “settings & options”, click “edit ignore list”.</p>
<p>Add a name, click okay, and you’re all set. It doesn’t stop ■■■■■■ from signing on under new screen names, but you can pretty much tell who’s who by the tone of their posts. And there’s no limit to the number you can add to your “ignore list”.</p>
<p>Now maybe CC can go back to being informative and useful again.</p>
<p>^ Thanks for the tip. I am going to add WUSTL ■■■■■■ to my “ignore” list right now.</p>