2008 USNWR Out

College Search & Selection
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<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Washington</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>UCBerkeley</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>Brandeis</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Rochester</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>Georgia Tech</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Case Western</li>
<li>Rensselaer</li>
<li>Washington</li>
<li>Yeshiva</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>UC Irvine</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
<li>UC Santa Barbara</li>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Miami</li>
<li>Penn State</li>
</ol>

<p>bad year for publics</p>

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<p>they will be published on Friday, August 17</p>

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<p>they have been published</p>

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<p>Stanford ahead of Yale!!!
Columbia tied with Duke!!!
Emory tied with Brown!!!
Cornell ahead of Brown.. oh wait.. that happens every year...
What sort of crazy world is this??? Lol..</p>

<p>But I am pleased to see Tufts' jump in the rankings.. they really deserved it!</p>

<p>Where did you find this??</p>

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<p>g|_|ys my friend's friend's dad works for USNWR and he op3ned the secret rank1ngs and let me look at them for a minute 3xac7ly! i'll post them s00n!</p>

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<p>Miami 49!!!!
hell yea!!
:D</p>

<p>u got a link btw?</p>

<p>im curious as to why BU, Syracuse and other didnt make it...</p>

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<p>yeah woo let's hear it for made up rankings!</p>

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<p>LOL I hope not... I almost got really hyped up :P
but yea now that I think about it, their prolly made up :D</p>

<p>sorta odd how my school jumped 6 spots</p>

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<p>lol ... this doesnt excite me nearly as it did last yr</p>

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<p>wait hold on where is the University of Texas??
dont tell me they dropped out of the top 50? thats mad crazy lol..</p>

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<p>where'd you get this...</p>

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<p>are you sure usc finally took down ucla?
and btw im more intersted in the LAC rankings
so yah i doubt this is the real thing
just wait for august 17</p>

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<p>Signs that this is not the real ranking:</p>

<p>1) Tufts moved up to 22. I agree with this move, but that would be 5 spots in one year. Certainly possible, but not likely. I think it'd be more gradual in the real thing.</p>

<p>2) UT no longer in the top 50. UT is the ****. It is T50 material and USNews knows that...or they'd better because I know where they work (and live).</p>

<p>3) NYU drops to 38. Dubious at best. Another large shift for one school - a school that doesn't have anything particularly negative since last year to bring it down so much. </p>

<p>4) Stanford ahead of Yale. Uh...this is the 21st century. I don't think so. ;)</p>

<p>5) Emory at #15. After the small scandal over how it reported test scores inaccurately, this seems very doubtful as well.</p>

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<p>Im surprised UT Austin is out while Tulane stays in...
Tulane just had a major scandal and was expected to go down.</p>

<p>is it me or is it not normal for a school to jump 6 spots from 54 all the way to 49?</p>

<p>Why this might be real:</p>

<ul>
<li>Who in the world finds the time to compile a list of rankings other than ppl who do it for a living?
I would be so stressed out having to rank all these schools...</li>
</ul>

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<p>Yay! Let's completely change our perspectives on certain colleges because of this list!</p>

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<p>**** this better not be the real thing!! Stanford ahead of Yale? Blah</p>

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<p>You're right. It should be ahead of Harvard and Princeton too. Blah.</p>

<p>Maybe if the newspaper wasn't run by snooty east coasters...</p>

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<p>I hope it is (for my own benefit) though for some reason I think its a pretty comical list.</p>

<p>Either this OP was drunk when making up the list or somebody at US NEWS made a typo when doing this list...</p>

<p>again my school ended up doing really good but many school have done bad which should have not.</p>

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<p>Though you do raise an interesting point. How do we know this is real.</p>

<p>Yeah, probably a fake.</p>

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<p>ahhhh this is horrible! now I have to live nervous for 2 weeks waiting to see if the OP is Bluffing or not :P</p>

<p>I know I sound crazy worrying over rankigns so much but I could care less! I love rankings :)</p>