<p>i agree with you 100% vivaldi87</p>
<p>so correctly speaking, where do you think CMU should be ranked cuz no way it's should be #25</p>
<p>Well if you guys are gonna list the first half of the top tier, you might as well predict the rest of the first tier schools (26-50)</p>
<p>i disagree with the poster that said emory will be in the top 15. their acceptance rate for 2009 is around 37% only dropping about 1% since last year. Many of the schools that they are surrounded by had more significant drops. they will probably stay around #20.</p>
<p>Top 25 unis, in no particular order:</p>
<p>1-15
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Yale
Brown
Cal Tech
Columbia
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Penn
UVa
Cal Berkeley
Cornell</p>
<p>16-25
CMU
Chicago
JHU
Michigan
Northwestern
Rice
Notre Dame
WUSTL
Emory
Tufts</p>
<p>Top 25 LACs, in no particular order:</p>
<p>1-15
Amherst
Williams
Swarthmore
Bowdoin
Carleton
Colgate
Davidson
Middlebury
Harvey Mudd
Pomona
Haverford
Vassar
Washington & Lee
Wesleyan
Wellesley</p>
<p>16-25
Claremont/McKenna
Grinnell
Barnard
Smith
Hamilton
Holy Cross
Lafayette
Macalester
Oberlin
Trinity</p>
<p>MY RANKINGS:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Princeton
Harvard</p></li>
<li><p>Yale
Stanford</p></li>
<li><p>MIT </p></li>
<li><p>Columbia
Dartmouth
UPenn
CalTech</p></li>
<li><p>Duke
Brown
Northwestern</p></li>
<li><p>UChicago
Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins
WUSTL</p></li>
<li><p>Vanderbilt
Notre Dame</p></li>
<li><p>Rice
Berkeley</p></li>
<li><p>Emory
Georgetown</p></li>
<li><p>UVA
Carnegie Mellon
Michigan</p></li>
<li><p>UCLA
Wake Forest
UNC</p></li>
<li><p>Tufts
NYU<br>
USC
William and Mary</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I agree with those, except I think Notre Dame and Carnegie Mellon might move down a little. But those are pretty good as is.</p>
<p>you're not putting the LACs in order?</p>
<p>i'd say that WUSTL has been way, way overrated in the past few years' USNWR rankings b/c of its blatant Tufts Syndrome. and if memory serves correct, it has a pretty mediocre academic reputation score. next year's new formula should put it in a more reasonable place.</p>
<p>georgetown seems underrated because of its endowment problems.</p>
<p>WUSTL is such a prestige-whore. It waitlisted everyone it didn't accept, just to try to get its yield rate up. Its a great school and all, but why does it have to be such a whore?</p>
<p>hm. I think Northwestern will move up, Yale and Stanford will stay the same, Harvard will stay on top, and Princeton will be between H and Y. I think Columbia will move down. Random gut guesses - don't flame me for any of this :D.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what, if any, changes are going to be made to the criteria (or weighting of same) in USNews 2005 Rankings?</p>
<p>most people predicted that berk will move up, what's your reason behind it. Also for carnegie, most ppl would move it down, y is that?</p>
<p>Classwarrior: Would you please explain what the 'new formula' is?</p>
<p>i'm not 100% sure, but i heard something about them removing yield.</p>
<p>They've already removed yield.</p>
<p>yah nd and wustl will prob move down</p>
<p>Hi, if anyone who has a USNews login and doesn't mind, could you send me your login info so I could check out the detailed rankings for myself? I won't give out your information to anyone else. Just PM me...thanks a lot!</p>
<p>I think Georgetown has only one place to go: up.</p>
<p>I predict 15th-20th. Good ol' Hoya Saxa!</p>
<p>Hoya Saxa!</p>
<p>WUStl and Duke are way overrated. Duke shouldn't even be there with the Ivys</p>