<p>Thanks for the clarification. I predict Yale will be #1 in selectivity in the '08 rankings.</p>
<p>Let the speculation for 08 begin?</p>
<p>Calidan, I would like to see a picture of you holding the USWNR 2007 book. To make sure you did not steal the image of the cover and then created a false table somehow. Thank you.</p>
<p>Wow bball Cornell has great placement. The percentages aren't as high as they could be because a LOT of people are in programs that make it not as practical to go to law school or business school.</p>
<p>This entire thread is really disappointing...you people live and die off of these rankings. You made him take photos of the magazine. Ridiculous.</p>
<p>People like it when their schools is recognized for their academics, I don't think it's too ridiculous.</p>
<p>Calidan - can you please scan the tier 4 page. I would like to look at the information for Biola University please. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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<p>And then you took the time to post a comment chiding others for taking interest in a thread.</p>
<p>And yes, I just took the time to post a comment pointing out that you took the time to post a comment chiding others for taking interest in a thread.</p>
<p>/meta-meta-analysis</p>
<p>I care...
As superficial as it sounds, people do make opinions about others based on college education.</p>
<p>The US News rankings are pretty legitimate - they correlate highly with what CC thinks, academics in general think, and what the general public thinks - its not arbitrary and a rather good way to chart out what the best colleges are.</p>
<p>I agree that they are useful to give us some GENERAL ideas about things. Where the US News rankings become ridiculous and dangerous is when people are freaking out over differences of a few spots ("oooh, UC-Wherever is #35, so if I get in there and University of XXX which is #41, it's a no-brainer where to go"). There was a poster a few months ago who was berated for choosing Boston College over Johns Hopkins, even though she liked everything about BC (sports, city, campus, atmosphere, neighborhood, etc.) and liked little about JHU. Another poster was berated for even thinking about choosing Notre Dame over Dartmouth.</p>
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<li><p>If you are hanging around people that are going to judge you based on the # ranking of your school, you're hanging around the wrong people. </p></li>
<li><p>It does not matter if you attend the #3 school or the #33 school because either way you are going to be getting a college education. This already gives you a leg up on the majority of society. It matters more how happy you are at the school. The happier you are, the better you do academically. The only thing grad schools care about is how well you do academically.</p></li>
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<p>GET A GRIP PEOPLE!</p>
<p>danfromcanada, this site really only cares about the top 20 or so schools, so things get heated over small changes since the other 1000 colleges are almost invisible</p>
<p>Also, no one hangs out with people who care about ranking of school, which is why they all come to this site to talk about it together lol</p>
<p>HeHeHe--good thought, thought process</p>
<p>Does anyone have access to the top 10 bio/biomedical engineering programs?</p>
<p>natalia, there is a thread on that here:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=226349%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=226349</a></p>
<p>Thanks a lot, posterX. I was actually asking about the new 2007 rankings. From the provided pictures of the magazine, it doesn't look like BME was included in the rankings as part of the specialty engineering programs. I was wondering if bioengineering is ranked in this edition of rankings. Thanks!</p>
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Bioengineering:
1. JHU
2. Duke
3. UC San Diego
4. Georgia Tech
Purdue
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<p>I already asked this question!!!! :)</p>
<p>Danfromcanada, </p>
<p>That just isn't true. I would argue that outside of getting me into a top grad school, my GPA isn't that relevant to my life right now. I was JUST in a meeting (and I'm pretty high up the ladder for my age...probably 5-6 years ahead of where my peers are), and I was asked where I went to college. I mentioned "Dartmouth" and this women who basically runs a top media company (think along the lines of MTV, Turner, etc) said "oh, no wonder you've gotten so far"</p>
<p>People ask me where I went to college more than they ask where I went to grad school.</p>
<p>It gives you a credibility stamp for the rest of your life. Is it critical, no. But it helps a lot.</p>
<p>A bit of a culture clash here. I am in Canada; my S goes to school in the US. In Canada no one gives a fig what university you went to. This very site and many of the posts in this thread and others stand for the proposition that in the US it is profoundly different.</p>