174IQPartier's College Ranking List (Top 50 National Universities)

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<p>Hey brahs!
I thought it would be a good idea if I give everyone the scoop on what I think are the best colleges in the United States.
It may be able to help some brah with his or her decision related to colleges..
I only use National Universities and base this off two factors: Academic Selectivity and Academic Quality.
I weigh both factors equally.
Public universities are ranked fairly low in this system because their selectivity is admittedly much lower than many of the private universities despite their popularity and academic rigor.
For example, I would put Emory and UC-Berkeley on par when it comes to academic quality. However, Emory's admission standards are more rigorous and thus is ranked quite higher...</p>

<p>Caltech
Harvard, Yale
Princeton
MIT
Columbia, Wash U
Stanford
Duke, Dartmouth
Northwestern
Penn, Chicago, Brown
Rice
Tufts
Notre Dame
Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown
Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon
Emory
Brandeis
USC
William & Mary
UC-Berkeley
NYU, Boston College, RPI
Georgia Tech
Wake Forest, Rochester
Michigan
Lehigh
UVA
UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, Case Western
Illinois, George Washington
WPI
Tulane
Wisconsin, Miami, Maryland
Boston University
Binghamton, American, Stevens</p>

<p>If anyone has any concerns with this ranking system, let me know.
I will answer questions.
I thought about this ranking system for a while and I doubt there's anything I need to change.</p>

<p>Comments
The most academically selective university is Caltech.
The universities with the highest academic quality are Harvard and Yale.
Out of the Ivies, Cornell is last place for both Selectivity and Academic Quality.</p>

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<p>no offense, but its extremely stupid to rank a school by selectivity, but it seems like you did not anyways</p>

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<p>Good to know that I got into two of the top schools on your list, and I rejected the offer from your 13th-ranked school. Have that said, college ranking is not “stupid”, but misleading. Too many students are applying to schools because they ranked high according to U.S. News rather than applying for the right fits.</p>

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<p>Why should people consider you (the OP) as a valid and respected source of information? Your post sounds very arrogant; surely you don’t really mean it to come off that way???</p>

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<p>How are Brandeis, Rice, and WUSTL ranked higher than NYU? hahaha. Man, re-think your life all over again.</p>

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<p>WUSTL and Rice are def. much better schools than NYU, idk what the **** u are saying ^</p>

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<p>I don’t think NYU and BC are on par - kids that get into NYU would never get into BC, though prestige is def debatable.</p>

<p>Unless you factor in Stern…</p>

<p>Also - and I’m GOING to Tufts, - but I think Gtown’s more selective than Tufts is… and about as academically strong so they should be tied at the very least.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’ve heard some pretty bad things about NYU CAS. Also, Rice, and WUSTL are definitely more selective than NYU (except Stern).</p>

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<p>neethus1 , you definitely have it wrong. NYU is definitely better than BC. CAS is maybe only slightly better than BC but Stern is on-pr with most ivies. NYU is very underrated.</p>

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<p>You can’t say Stern is on -par with most ivies as it’s a business school…Cornell and Penn are the only two ivies with any sort of undergrad b-school.</p>

<p>Wharton is definitely better than Stern and Cornell AEM vs. Stern is debatable.</p>

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<p>Lobz:</p>

<p>Boston College: 26% accepted / SAT range (25-75): 1870 - 2140</p>

<p>NYU: 32% accepted / SAT range (25-75): 1870 - 2160</p>

<p>The SAT ranges are practically identical. However, BC is much more selective - 26 percent v. 32 percent for NYU. Additionally, NYU’s SAT median is slightly skewed due to Stern. For CAS, it must be much lower.</p>

<p>Stern may be on par with the lower ivies (i.e. Cornell). CAS barely grazes BC’s superiority.</p>

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<p>^Yeah, I agree Wash U. is one of THE top schools and tops NYU.</p>

<p>Your list is quite inaccurate, even if it is based on a opinion. </p>

<p>Plus why would anyone even care about which school is “last place” in the Ivy League rankings?</p>

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<p>So where’s rankings based on research quality, faculty ratios, college resources(per student), ice cream taste, food, costs, on campus music, squirrel-student ratio (very important for me), number of people per dorm (or the availability of dorms), male-female ratio, urbanity rankings, student number ranking?</p>

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<p>@neethus1</p>

<p>I think that BC and NYU are on par. I just noticed that the stats you have are wrong for NYU atleast. Last year’s overall acceptance rate was 24% and I think it went up slightly this year. </p>

<p>(BTW alot my friends who applied to NYU CAS got into BC as well).</p>

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<p>^ What? Where are you getting your stats from?</p>

<p>I, on the other hand, am using collegeboard.com.</p>

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<p>please…just stop trying to rank colleges haha</p>

<p>btw why isn’t Clemson on the list and Binghamton is? haha just playing with you</p>

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<p>This is not a good list, broski.</p>

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<p>@neethus1</p>

<p>I got it from NYU website itself. I also used to look at collegeboard before I realized most of the college info is outdated by a few years.</p>

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<p>Syracuse isn’t even on this… and Cornell is not the worst Ivy in both categories. Flawed system, as are all rankings. However, it can be taken with a grain of salt I guess.</p>

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<p>He said brah… tehehehe</p>