<p>you rule</p>
<p>alot</p>
<p>Just got it for free, thanks!</p>
<p>For anyone who wants them...</p>
<p>Detailed</a> 2007 Rankings in Text Form</p>
<p>You might need to play with font size/open up NotePad to a fullscreen/turn off wordwrap.</p>
<p>EDIT:</p>
<p>Excel</a> Spreadsheet form might be more convenient</p>
<p>Snakes</a> on a Plane 2</p>
<p>Here are the National Merit Scholar numbers corrected for the size of the incoming class of 2005 from US News (parentheses show size of class) my math may not be perfect, but I think it's pretty close</p>
<p>Cal Tech 18.8 (234)
Yale 17.5 (1321)
Harvard 17.4 (1648)
Princeton 15 (1170)
MIT 13.2 (996)
Stanford 11.9 (1632)
Colombia 6.9 (1024)
Duke 6.8 (1724)
Dartmouth 6 (1075)
Amherst 5.3 (431)
Brown 4.3 (1440)
Williams 4.3 (535)
Penn 4.0 (2543)</p>
<p>Oops! I left out a couple of LAC's. Here's the list again, making it the top fifteen schools. </p>
<p>Here are the National Merit Scholar numbers corrected for the size of the incoming class of 2005 from US News (parentheses show size of class) my math may not be perfect, but I think it's pretty close</p>
<p>Cal Tech 18.8 (234)
Yale 17.5 (1321)
Harvard 17.4 (1648)
Princeton 15 (1170)
MIT 13.2 (996)
Stanford 11.9 (1632)
Colombia 6.9 (1024)
Duke 6.8 (1724)
Harvey Mudd 6.3 (188)
Dartmouth 6 (1075)
Amherst 5.3 (431)
Swarthmore 5.1 (389)
Brown 4.3 (1440)
Williams 4.3 (535)
Penn 4.0 (2543)</p>
<p>Speaking of upwardly mobile, I have to get my plug in for Kansas State University, which jumped from midway in the USNWR third tier national universities ranking last year to the top national universites ranking this year. Ok, I'm well aware that K-State is not Princeton and that it ranks near the bottom of the first tier, but I'm still happy for my D who hopes to make it into K-State's preveterinary scholars program. Go Wildcats!</p>
<p>cardinal, where did you get the information for class size? what section is that in?</p>
<p>To get class size, go to the US News site, click on the name of the college/university, then select admissions, then scroll down to info on numbers of applications, admissions, entering class size.</p>
<p>thanks .......</p>
<p>What was the 2005 class size at Chicago (I don't have access to USNews extras)?</p>
<p>These are all the numbers I've collected for class size</p>
<p>UNIVERSITIES
Harvard 1648
MIT 996
Yale 1321
Cal Tech 234
Princeton 1170
Wash U St Louis 1388
Columbia 1024
Penn 2543
Stanford 1632
Brown 1440
Rice 722
Dartmouth 1075
Duke 1724
Berkeley 4101
Gerogetown 1551
Emory 1637
Tufts 1365
Tufts 1365
USC 2741
UCLA 4422
Notre Dame 1966
Northwestern 1952
Univ Chicago 1203
Univ Virginia 3112
Michigan 6113
John Hopkins 1154</p>
<p>LACs
Harvey Mudd 188
Pomona 382
Amherst 431
Swarthmore 389
Williams 535
Smith 615
Wellesley 605</p>
<p>(these are listed, roughly in terms of their selectivity rank)</p>
<p>Cardinal, these numbers arent totally correct. For example your columbia number doesn't include SEAS, but your raw number of National merit does. So it is more like 5%ish NMS. does you Duke number include Pratt?</p>
<p>Then for the top 15 Chicago edges out Penn. Wait, no, Rice should be very high. 8%. That'd knock both off.</p>
<p>I just realized a few of these class sizes may be from class of 2004/05, not 2005/06, just a disclaimer.... but the U Chicago number is from the US News 2007 data which I believe lists the numbers from the freshman class of 2005/06</p>
<p>Slipper and danielvojtash,</p>
<p>You guys are too advanced for me! I'm just a lowly physician who graduated from Stanford back in the days when the admit rate was over 20 %. That's why I included the qualifier that "my math might not be perfect."</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Holy crap. I had no idea Rice had such a high percentage. Maybe I should transfer ;)</p>
<p>slipper, i was wondering about the NMS number vis a vis any particular school - e.g. for instance UPenn's NMS number, does that include those enrolling at Wharton under?</p>
<p>i am trying to incorp. this into my new ranking system - but want to try to stay as consistent and accurate as possible.</p>
<p>**Updated, improved, now a total of top twenty, thanks for the corrections:</p>
<p>Here are the National Merit Scholar numbers corrected for the size of the incoming class ('05) from US News (parentheses show size of class). I guess this represents a series of approximations...Any other oversights?</p>
<p>Cal Tech 18.8 (234)
Yale 17.6 (1321)
Harvard 17.5 (1640)
Princeton 14.6 (1229)
MIT 13.1 (996)
Stanford 11.9 (1633)
Rice 8.2 (722)
Duke 6.8 (1724)
Harvey Mudd 6.2 (193)
Dartmouth 6 (1074)
Amherst 5.3 (431)
Columbia 5.3 (1339)
Swarthmore 5.1 (389)
Brown 4.3 (1439)
Williams 4.3 (536)
Univ Chicago 4.0 (1203)
Penn 3.9 (2552)
Pomona 3.9 (383)
Wash U St Louis 3.5 (1388)
Carleton 3.1 (541)</p>
<p>illinois all the way!</p>
<p>but jeeze, i am still shocked by illinois's absurdly high admission rate, 75%, the highest on the first page. but its peer assessment score is higher than at least 10 schools before it. i am wondering where illinois would ranks if it had lower admission rate.</p>