College Ranking Game (Plus/Minus)

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (5) -
Harvard (15) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>Harvard (10)

<ol>
<li>Yale (12)</li>
<li>Princeton (11)</li>
<li>MIT (10)</li>
<li>Stanford (11)</li>
<li>CalTech (8)</li>
<li>UChicago (12)</li>
<li>Columbia (10)</li>
<li>UPenn (10)</li>
<li>Brown (10)</li>
<li>Cornell (11)</li>
<li>Duke (11)</li>
<li>Dartmouth (10)</li>
<li>NYU (10)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley (10)</li>
<li>Tufts (10)</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon (9)</li>
<li>Georgetown (9)</li>
<li>USC (4)</li>
<li>UCLA (11)</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<p>Cornell +1
Brown -1</p>

<p>Because</p>

<p>2012-2013 Enrolled Freshman SAT Strength (the starting SAT score of their top 800 )</p>

<p>R#800 M#800 W#800 R+M</p>

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<p>740.00 780.00 -------- 1520 Cornell
757.19 755.75 761.47 1513 Harvard
744.99 766.49 756.49 1511 Penn
739.48 759.48 746.91 1499 Northwestern
737.85 757.85 -------- 1496 WUSL
739.35 753.41 747.48 1493 Stanford
729.34 749.34 719.18 1479 Vanderbilt
735.29 739.70 -------- 1475 U.Chicago
732.01 735.60 738.81 1468 Yale
728.88 738.88 738.88 1468 Princeton
729.41 733.09 733.09 1463 Columbia
711.91 741.91 727.67 1454 Duke
679.65 745.79 689.65 1425 MIT
706.04 710.64 720.64 1417 Brown
670.77 693.85 680.77 1365 J.Hopkins
674.71 684.28 684.71 1359 Dartmouth
650.50 693.89 670.50 1344 Emory </p>

<p>The explanation is in the second part of post#1 in the following thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1530349-ivy-league-other-top-schools-student-body-academic-strength.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1530349-ivy-league-other-top-schools-student-body-academic-strength.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>^^^ What in the heck are you doing? ^^^</p>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (4) -
Harvard (16) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT

<ol>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<p>^ I think it should start over - with informed data and a reason (not just going with how one feels.)</p>

<p>Well you can go create a thread for that. This thread was created to determine what the favorite colleges of CCers are.</p>

<p>^That sounds fine - While one poster can post 35+ on this board and almost have Princeton -1 in every post, it is only a game of competing who got on this thread more. :slight_smile: It is fun, though!</p>

<p>^While you guys sort this out Imma continue</p>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (3) -
Harvard (17) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>Why do y’all gotta hate on Princeton? :D</p>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (4) +
Harvard (16) -</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>I don’t care at all about which college is better, all I care about is eliminating one and Princeton’s closer :D</p>

<p>Princeton (3) -
Harvard (17) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>@2Daswell - Your post actually made me laugh! :)</p>

<p>I think the reasons are a good idea to not have people mindlessly subtract points from schools, but as other people said, this is all just fun and games and something that you can log onto at the end of the day and use 5 seconds to contribute to. I’d rather keep it that way.</p>

<p>Princeton (2) -
Harvard (18) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley

<ol>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<p>Princeton (3) +
Harvard (17) -</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC
Princeton seemed like a real life Hogwarts, Harvard-- is just so-- Boston.</li>
</ol>

<p>@todayisfriday - THE HARVARD DINING HALL THOUGH. Totally Hogwarts. In fact, according to the tour guide, the set designer came to Harvard for inspiration, and the cafeteria is based off of the one at Harvard!</p>

<p>I love Princeton doe D:</p>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (4) +
Harvard (16) -</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>Fair enough, @catchinginfinity, fair enough…</p>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (3) -
Harvard (17) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (2) -
Harvard (18) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT

<ol>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

<p>harvard sucks ****</p>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (3) -
Harvard (17) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (2) -
Harvard (18) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>

<p>For 3rd Place-</p>

<p>Princeton (1) -
Harvard (19) +</p>

<ol>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford
3.
4.</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>USC</li>
</ol>