what are the FUTURE prestigious universities?

College Search & Selection
21

<p>IUPUI bc they have made tremendous stride in the last couple years. They were on a list of college to keep an eye on too.</p>

22

<p>barrons,</p>

<p>The OP was asking about FUTURE prestigious Universities. Duke and some of the others mentioned are already there…:o</p>

<p>Maybe some of the State Flagship schools will be moving up? :confused:</p>

<p>US News has an “Up & Coming” list. There are some State U’s on that. With the exception of a few State Universities, most are not currently considered to be “elite” or “prestigious”.
Maybe some day…</p>

23

<p>Up and coming Universities and LAC’s from USNWR</p>

<p>[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-uc-rank]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-uc-rank)</p>

<p>[Best</a> Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/libarts-uc-rank]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/libarts-uc-rank)</p>

24

<p>USC, last ten years has made a lot of progress, as has NYU, both backed with billions of dollars in funds…</p>

25

<p>surprised that Reed College was considered an up and coming by USNWR…I thought that it was already there…</p>

26

<p>Butler. Saint Mary’s College.</p>

27

<p>sokkermom–you need to reread my post. It was an example of several schools that made the jump in the last 30 years or so. The point being it has been done and it will be done again in the next 30 years. XXXXX is vulnerable as are several other schools in the current Top 25 schools whose students exceed the quality of the overall school and who have limited means.</p>

28

<p>this will help tremendously for discussion in this thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/868388-you-familiar-us-news-top-25-national-universities.html?highlight=2004+rankings[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/868388-you-familiar-us-news-top-25-national-universities.html?highlight=2004+rankings&lt;/a&gt;
.
.
.
.
.</p>

29

<p>how are we even defining prestige here? If we’re talking ‘oooh, he went to ____ school’ in the middle of a convo as a previous poster has said then you’re only looking at ivies + a few (MIT, stanford, etc) and that doesn’t look likely to change soon (although I would personally say UChicago is finally getting more recognition for what level it’s really at - no I don’t go there)</p>

30

<p>My guess is there is actually going to be a contraction of schools at the top over the next few decades. One could argue that the only reason the number of well regarded school has increased recently is because there was a bubble of middle class graduating seniors (boomer’s babies), who were, by sheer numbers, making the most competitive schools even more selective, and pushing into view a number of great, but formerly less competitive schools. The number of college age and college ready students is going to decline over the next few decades (I think it peaked one or two years ago), and all colleges will become slightly less competitive, with less momentum for rising star colleges.</p>

31

<p>@ vassar, I disagree since the invention of new mediums of communication (actually, scratch that I’m just talking about the internet here :P) has spread knowledge of many ‘selective’ schools to increasingly wider audiences which has encouraged more applications to slightly lesser known schools relative to the most well known ones (which most already know). I’m not saying this is the right way to look at prestige but selectivity does often correspond with the perceived prestige of a college.</p>

32

<p>when it comes to perception of prestige, i would argue that selectively is almost the only factor that matters (or the perception of selectivity, even). There will be fewer “top” students and the same number of spots… there will be a decrease in selectivity that will disproportionately hit the up and coming schools.</p>

<p>I would also add that this whole thing is silly, and that it doesn’t matter at all.</p>

33

<p>

</p>

<p>But I think that this is an important discussion for this reason. Last week, I saw a CC thread by a HS senior asking if s/he should consider paying dozens of thousands of extra dollars to choose the U. of Georgia over the U. of South Carolina because of UGA’s greater “prestige.” If 18-year-olds are being deluded enough by CC posts to consider such an action, then I think we need to make the point that “prestige” is an exceptionally rare commodity with limited benefits, and it isn’t a byproduct of just being several spots higher on the US News rankings.</p>

34

<p>TOSU does not participate in the Common Applications, yet its applications has gone up ~30% this year alone on ALL campuses! lol</p>

<p>Sasaki Strategic Planning (Preview):</p>

<p>[Sasaki</a> | Portfolio | Ohio State University Framework Plan](<a href=“Continuous Learning at Sasaki: Green Infrastructure Crawls – Sasaki”>Continuous Learning at Sasaki: Green Infrastructure Crawls – Sasaki)</p>

<p>Related Link:</p>

<p>[Master</a> plan will set stage for true One University : onCampus](<a href=“http://oncampus.osu.edu/2009/08/master-plan-will-set-stage-for-true-‘one-university’/]Master”>http://oncampus.osu.edu/2009/08/master-plan-will-set-stage-for-true-‘one-university’/)</p>

<p>[Powered</a> by Google Docs](<a href=“http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:flkoiWKvN3MJ:oaa.osu.edu/sfc/documents/GeeScopeproposal.pdf+sasaki+ohio+state&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjj9TAxqB-xRNxfQPb6mDErDkUe9oCC5qWCQRX3AvGFEt2VNPLS7t4AGoDt_BIcMVC3obU09174kiGQ8p8yX8G8g0rYXb1XA59FAdQ2bLXGhv2szOiJCY1HDwlhVdci_-QGNFqv&sig=AHIEtbTGq_u3GtbM7HfIpfxvbdICdWsa4Q]Powered”>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:flkoiWKvN3MJ:oaa.osu.edu/sfc/documents/GeeScopeproposal.pdf+sasaki+ohio+state&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjj9TAxqB-xRNxfQPb6mDErDkUe9oCC5qWCQRX3AvGFEt2VNPLS7t4AGoDt_BIcMVC3obU09174kiGQ8p8yX8G8g0rYXb1XA59FAdQ2bLXGhv2szOiJCY1HDwlhVdci_-QGNFqv&sig=AHIEtbTGq_u3GtbM7HfIpfxvbdICdWsa4Q)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.osu.edu/features/2010/ohiounion[/url]”>http://www.osu.edu/features/2010/ohiounion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/fusionpanda/4148586593/[/url]”>http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/fusionpanda/4148586593/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

35

<p>“thanks to an infusion of tobacco dollars.”</p>

<p>–and mike Ksheshefsky :)</p>

<p>I also agree with barrons who earlier pointed out that the perceptions of collegs can change over the years. I am 50 , but I do not recall ND being called a ‘virtual ivy’, which I have heard it called now (look at its mid 50 act profile and its acceptance rate as exhibits to this claim). It seemed to me in the older days to be just a big football / fun party school. Some on this forum, especially people who claimed to have lived their lives nearer ND, have said the same about ND.</p>

36

<p>Krzyzewski</p>

37

<p>roderick, yes, fully agree on ND and same goes for USC</p>

<p>

</p>