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Message: [QUOTE="BlueDogs, post: 2582276, member: 891"] You are joking right? Kids like to go to schools that bring some entertainment excitement and affiliation with winning brands. Winning brands get national air time worth tens of millions in free advertising. Winning brands show up on tee shirts and hats across the nation and beyond. It is cache. This increases free exposure and increases applicant pools. Larger applicant pools means more admission selectivity as measured by admission % rates, and average SAT scores and GPA statistics. As the school increases admissions selectivity, the school's ranking increases under the various criteria used by Forbes and USNWR. As the school's ranking increases, it creates a positive feedback loop with more highly competitive applicants seeking admission. The increase in overall quality of students entering UConn is staggeringly higher than it was in the past. It's transformed the school over the last 25 years. I know two valedictorians from highly respected high schools who ended up at UConn over Cornell in one case and over Little Ivies in another. The perceived educational value relative to cost was too good to pass up. 40% of the student body is from out if state and they could take more, but for their mandate to serve CT first. You can thank Marshsll, Hamilton, Boat, Okafor and dozens of other great players for that. In 1980, UConn was a second-thought safety State school. Not anymore. Nothing has moved the needle more than UConn winning on CBS in front of the nation. [/QUOTE]

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