<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php</a></p>
<p>new rankings up</p>
<p>uc’s:</p>
<p>ucb:21
ucla:26
ucsd:38
uci:44
ucd:47
ucsb:47
ucsc:76
ucr:88</p>
<p>top 6 UCs are pretty close...</p>
<p>The UC no longer dominates four the top ten of the Top Public Schools.</p>
<p>can i get the link to the top public schools? thanks.</p>
<p>I believe the top four public schools are now: </p>
<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Univ. of Virginia</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>"The UC no longer dominates four the top ten of the Top Public Schools."</p>
<p>At least it still has three of the top 10 =)</p>
<p>Yay for top tier :}</p>
<p>just wondering, why did sd drop so much...i thought it was supposed to be a rising institution</p>
<p>Since when was the sole measure of an institution its USNews rank?</p>
<p>Also note that this is misleading,
uci:44
ucd:47
ucsb:47
since there is a three way tie with UCI. In truth UCI is only ranked one space above UCD and UCSB.</p>
<p>Apparently, UC Santa Barbara is beginning to shed its image as a "party school" and is slowly improving its academics. That school along with UC Irvine and UC Davis are pretty much in a three-way tie for 4th best college in the University of California system. About UCI, I think they have good science departments, but they are very weak in the social sciences. If they choose to pay more attention to subjects such as history, political science and sociology, that might help them to move up in the rankings.</p>
<p>Rankings are overrated.</p>
<p>Rankings don't mean squat. I seriously think US News rankings somehow gets paid by private schools to move up their rankings, haha. It's definitely not a coincidence.</p>
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<p>It is not misleading. UCI IS three ranks above UCD.</p>
<p>Yeah if you want to IGNORE the three-way tie. DUH.....but you go ahead and do that, ok?</p>
<ol>
<li> University of California—Irvine *</li>
<li> Tulane University(LA) 11</li>
<li><pre><code>Yeshiva University(NY)
</code></pre></li>
<li><pre><code>Pennsylvania State U.—University Park *
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<li><pre><code>University of Texas—Austin *
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<li><pre><code>University of California—Davis *
</code></pre></li>
<li><pre><code>Univ. of California—Santa Barbara *
</code></pre></li>
<li><pre><code>University of Florida *
</code></pre></li>
</ol>
<p>For example you cannot say that Tulane University or Yeshiva University are ranked higher than or lower than UCI. In fact they are equal and are in a tied position. All of these three schools are in a tied position, and all of them are only one position above the five tied schools ranked just one spot below. </p>
<p>This is simple logic dude. Then again nevermind about the simple logic, I forgot you go to UCI ;)</p>
<p>No no UCI is three rankings ahead technically. Worried Senior is right. Cause look, Since three schools are so close in their ranking they give them the same ranking, in this case 44. It has to do with their guantitative analysis of the data which is just how US News decides to do it. If Davis really were just 1 spot spot behind UCI in this case then following with that logic if all the schools that would normall be about 1-20 were so close that they had to give them the number 1 ranking to all of them and all the 21-40 schools were so close that they had to give them all a tie, then all the 41-60 schools were so close that they had to be tied also, you could not say that the school that would normally be at about 55 is ranked just 2 schools behind the number 1 school (lets say Harvard), you'd have to say they were ranked 41. You have to take into account all the schools that make up the certain ranking. That is how US News does their study and it makes sense. See what I'm saying?</p>
<p>It has to do with how they round things. BUTTTTT, who cares! Even for the ranking whores out there it's a small difference and shouldn't be a factor in deciding on a school.</p>
<p>"ranking whores"????
lol
I think the rankings are an excellent tool to help sort out colleges, and I'm using them heavily right now as a starting point to help my d come up with a list of where to apply...but when it gets to be an obsession, ala ranking whores, that's too much of a good thing and defeats the whole purpose. </p>
<p>But again, I'm really glad we have all the info USNews compiles..its a huge amount of data in a very concise form. As to how accurate each piece of data is, that's another question...as someone points out above, is it slanted in some way to favor private colleges? Hmmm...food for thought....</p>
<p>and what is going on w/ UCSD? I visited there recently and I picked up a slight whiff of dissatisfaction, is it not social enough? is it a bit of commuter school? would everyone there really rather be at Cal or UCLA? </p>
<p>just my $ .03 worth</p>
<p>I just think it's lame to pick your school because of rankings. Look into different schools and see what specific programs they have to offer. For instance, honors programs and atmosphere/location. Instead of just trying to find the highest ranked school so that you feel better about yourself name dropping it to random people or your relatives or friends or whatever. But that's just my opinion, most people on CC probably disagree with me.</p>
<p>Even if school X is a "rising institution," other schools might be (and some likely are) rising quicker . . . schools might also be improving in ways which indirectly (perhaps after years) or in very little ways influence rankings such as the US News and World Report ranking.</p>