<p>In response to that, 2 out of the 4 kids going to Duke from my school had sub 1350 SAT scores. You now see me citing that after you cited your little evidence.</p>
<p>Uhh...you obviously missed the point.</p>
<p>Whatever, this is stupid</p>
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<p>In the first few pages of in this thread, it seems that many people say this. Why?</p>
<p>When do these rankings come out?</p>
<p>buumpbumpbump</p>
<p>before kids start applying to colleges again so sales are high, so probably around august or september</p>
<p>What universities in the top 20 will the changes in the selectivity help or hinder? For example I noticed Columbia fell in the selectivity rank fell when USnews removed the yield from this measure. Can anyone shed some light on which universities will benefit or be adversely affected by the new change?</p>
<p>Columbia will actually be helped this year if the yield is taken away. With a 10.4% acceptance rate that is ahead of Princeton, MIT, Stanford and Caltech, they are almost certain to move up in the rankings.</p>
<p>Columbia actually is higher than 10.4% because you have to integrate SEAS (USNEWS does).</p>
<p>JHU will go up probably.. i think US News has their SAT at 1375 and their SAT this year is 1440.</p>
<p>why do so many people agree that WUSTL will drop like a stone?</p>
<p>yeah i agree that penn should not be ranked higher than MIT, Stanford even though I go to penn. Personally I would not go to penn for anything other than wharton (oh and if i was into nursing i'd go hahaha) but seriously from being at penn I can tell you that if i were going to study a lib arts major i would go to a school like dartmouth, pomona, brown, yale, middlebury, williams, etc. Not penn. and if i were to study engineering i'd go to an MIT, CIT, etc. Basically the only reason penn is ranked so highly is because of wharton...academically it's the only worthwhile school at penn. for arts/sciences and engineering there are many schools that are better. In general I would rank penn in the around somewhere in the range of 7 to 10.</p>
<p>Jaug, I am not sure about this, so don't quote me, but I recall hearing that % accepted is going to be dropped from the equation altogether. Selectivity is going to be a function of class rank and mean SAT.</p>
<p>Yeah that's what I heard as well. Which means schools like Cornell, Duke, Penn, Chicago, JHU, Michigan, will get a boost.</p>
<p>Well, it is ironic Slipper, because for the last decade, schools like Cornell, Penn and Johns Hopkins have been trying to lower their acceptance rate from 40% to 20%-25%. And now, the USNWR is removing the % accepted from the formula! LOL Oh well, the schools that will hurt the most as a result of this are Georgetown, Washington U. and maybe Rice and Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Hmmm... I wonder how my school shall fare...</p>
<p>KK, most schools, including Northwestern, are not going to be affected. But if anything, Northwestern will benefit slightly.</p>
<p>JHU will jump and will hugely benefit...its median scores jumped 40 points this year even though its acceptance rate rose to over 35%.</p>
<p>I agree about JHU. I also think Chicago and Michigan will benefit quite a bit.</p>
<p>I think there are going to be surprises.</p>
<p>Like, I think Duke and Upenn might tie with Yale at 3 like Duke did sometime ago. I think Rice or JHU might make top 10 and tie a DArtmouth or COlumbia. I also think that Princeton will defintively be numero uno.</p>
<p>Proof? I have absolutely none. lol</p>