The "Trendiest" Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>What are the top 5 "trendiest"/most prestigious schools from where you live?</p>

<p>me:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. MIT
5. Princeton</p>

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<p>Public in Texas
Typically send 10-15 kids to Top 25 schools</p>

<p>Trendiest (Most popular)

  1. UT
  2. Rice
  3. Texas A&M
  4. OU
  5. Texas Tech</p>

<p>Prestigious

  1. Harvard
  2. Stanford
  3. Yale
  4. Duke
  5. Rice</p>
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<p>Me:

  1. NYU (why does everyone love it so much?)
  2. Harvard
  3. Princeton
  4. Stanford
  5. Yale
    and adding a 6th: USC (very popular for some reason)</p>
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<p>NYU - People love the idea of living in NYC/job opportunities in NYC
USC - Nice sports, nice girls, nice alumni network, reasonably nice weather–>Overall nice school</p>

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<p>Agree with crs, trendy, nothing to do with most prestigious, are the urban schools: NYU, BC, Emory, American, GW, BU. Also USC has come up out of nowhere.</p>

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<p>Chicago, Northwestern, USC, Michigan, NYU, Columbia, and Dartmouth seem to be the top schools applied at my high school.</p>

<p>I really don’t think anyone applied to HYPSM at my school…</p>

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<p>I agree with crs09 about the Texas schools… at my school the trendiest schools are:</p>

<ol>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>UT</li>
<li>Texas Tech</li>
<li>Rice </li>
<li>OU</li>
</ol>

<p>When you mention “Rice” in Texas, it’s extremely prestigious. Along the same lines as Duke or Stanford.</p>

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<p>I will say that USC (Southern Cal) has become one of THE hot schools lately. And this is coming from a NJ guy. </p>

<p>I’m personally shocked at how USC has become popular in NJ. As I mentioned in a previous post, several members of my high school’s Class of 2008 are attending USC (many of them National Honor Society members and/or graduating Top 10%). To put things in perspective, MORE people from my high school Class of 2008 in NJ are attending USC than Stanford and Berkeley COMBINED. </p>

<p>I think USC’s skyrocketing popularity is attributed to 3 things:</p>

<p>1.) Sudden ascension of USC’s place in the US News rankings. Ten years ago, USC was struggling to be in the Top 50. Now, USC has solidified itself as a Top 30 university and most people in my high school (considered one of the top publics in NJ) consider USC prestigious.</p>

<p>2.) Athletics. USC’s athletics have dominated the national spotlight. Pete Carroll resurrected a once moribund USC football program, and Tim Floyd is beginning to do the same with USC basketball. USC’s basketball program was once a perennial pushover (one of the worst in the West Coast, let alone PAC-10), but now USC is competing with the perennial basketball powers (UNC, UCLA) for highly recruited top notch basketball players. </p>

<p>3.) Aggressive marketing in the East Coast. USC generally is a very aggressive school and they are pushing themselves to become a prestigious national university. They really want to push themselves to be the Ivy League of the West Coast. They really strive to be as good as Stanford. USC has pushed hard to recruit top notch high school students from the East Coast (as exhibited in my high school in NJ).</p>

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<p>Public in MD: UMD, Penn State, Umich and suprisingly U colorado</p>

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<p>I agree that urban schools tend to be the most ‘trendy’ at my school–or at least by my own understanding of the word trendy:</p>

<p>Almost everyone in my school seems to apply to one of the following: Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, NYU</p>

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<p>Trendy at my school was:</p>

<ol>
<li>BC</li>
<li>Northeastern</li>
<li>Quinnipiac</li>
<li>UMass Dartmoth/Amherst</li>
<li>Bridgewater State College</li>
</ol>

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<p>Trendy at my school:</p>

<ol>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>BC</li>
</ol>

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<p>Isn’t it interesting how UMass has one campus in Amherst and another in a small town called Dartmouth (it’s actually not even in Dartmouth; it’s several miles outside)? So public school students there can answer questions about college selection by saying they’re going to “Amherst” or “Dartmouth” - if I was the mayor of a struggling small town in MA, I’d rename the town “Harvard” and see if the State would place a UMass campus there!</p>

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<p>^HAHAHAHA what a good idea</p>

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<p>Actually, at my school, I recall a girl saying that she was going to the “University of Chicago” to literally everyone who asked.</p>

<p>Then, later, we found out that she was actually going to Loyola University of Chicago.</p>

<p>Kind of a big difference…</p>

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<p>Yup, everyone in my high school would say they were going to Dartmouth and Amherst. When people really got into Dartmouth and Amherst, people would be helllllla confused.</p>

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<p>hahaha^ 10char</p>

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<p>at my school, everyone wants to go to UGA (university of GA, for everyone out of state…).. not much of a school, but since all the kids at my school are only focused on baseball, it works… bleh.</p>

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<p>Yale, Brown, maybe NYU…</p>

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<p>ekb - In Georgia, since everyone who finishes HS with a B average or better gets a full tuition scholarship to any of the public universities (including UGA), most of the prospective college students aren’t even thinking about out-of-state or private universities.</p>