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Message: [QUOTE="kibblesnbits, post: 4385709, member: 97"] The perception of UConn has changed significantly over the years. Our middle-to-upper middle class Fairfield County town used to publish statistics on every graduate of the high school and their college apps (rank, GPA, test scores, where they applied and whether they were accepted). If you ignored the little problem with privacy (no names on it but if your kid was a senior you could accurately guess a fair number of members based on the data), it was extremely helpful to look at the prior few years in getting a sense of where to apply in the traditional reach, target and safety model. When we moved here nearly 30 years ago getting into UConn was almost a given for the top 1/2 of the class (maybe even a bit below that). By the time they stopped publishing the report sometime last decade, a student had to be in the top quarter or so of the class to get into Storrs and, if they got in at all, many in the second quartile were getting offers for the regional campuses. The other big change was at the top of the class. For the first 15 years or so we almost never saw a top 10 kid going to UConn. In the later years of the report it was common to see one or two go to Storrs and there have been recent years where that included the valedictorian or salutatorian. UConn 2000 was a big success. When we first started looking in CT I was working in MA and my wife was working near Hartford, so our home search was concentrated on the northern towns along I-84. On one ride we stumbled across the campus. We were horrified. Other than Gampel, which was pretty new, the rest of the campus had that "the boys are coming back from war so we'll throw up a bunch of brick buildings" look. Worst of all, it looked like very little had been done to improve it since then. With that model in your head, the current campus is almost unrecognizable. The facilities are excellent and the qualifications of the student body have followed suit. I didn't go to UConn (nor did anyone in my family), but if I did I'd be happy that the perceived value of my degree has increased commensurate with the perception of the school. [/QUOTE]

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