<p>There is a huge huge difference between having pride in something, and going all figuratively violent at any imagined slight to its greatness. Okay I’m slightly exaggerating here but seriously GB, get a grip. No one was trashing your alma mater…it <em>just wasn’t mentioned</em> in a title to a thread on a parents forum in CC. Xiggi had some interesting data that I thought we’d get to talk about, and instead we end up focused on a debate about a bloody title. I’d assume he worked backwards-- had some data and made the closest quick title to match. </p>
<p>If Duke is really your alma mater, and you feel a need to defend its reputation, you sure aren’t accomplishing that on this thread. I would have thought Duke graduates would have better things to be doing in real life or display a stronger sense of, um, security about the prestige of their school.</p>
<p>"Well, maybe. But instead of the extra essay the Dartmouth supplement requires a unique Peer Recommendation that causes a degree of consternation among some applicants. You see threads about it all the time over on the Dartmouth board. "</p>
<p>That is a good point. Besides, it doesn’t matter what I think - this is Xiggi’s list. ;)</p>
<p>don’t understand why goldenboy is still posting here… CC posting standards must be falling or the mods are having trouble tracking single posters that only argue across multiple threads.</p>
<p>Maybe someone can help us understand this flattening trend and its implications.
To do that, I think we’d need to look at more schools than just the Ivies.
Where are students applying, if not to the Ivies? Or are numbers flattening at top private schools across the board (with a few exceptions)?</p>
<p>I vaguely recall reading a couple years ago that college apps in general would reach a demographic peak sometime around the college class of 2013. If so, maybe the leveling has hit the most selective, most expensive schools first.</p>