<p>I think Georgetown will definitely rise because of their high yield, retention, and graduation rates. Also, since they are not as selective as some places that are ranked higher than them, removing the selectivity factor should probably help them. </p>
<p>Also, this was Georgetown's most competitive year- the College's acceptance rate decreased to 19%, lower than it's ever been. </p>
<p>I'm guessing they might move up to possibly #21 or so (just a guess ;)).</p>
<p>BTW- arew you (I forget who said it) sure that JHU's SAT rose that much this year? Because a 65 point increase in one year is almost unheard of.</p>
<p>I disagree Calidan. They have a much lower acceptance rate than most of the schools around them in the rankings. Eliminating acceptance rate would not help Georgetown with those schools directly in front of them. Virginia, Michignan, CMU, Cal (although it is only 1% higher than Georgetown), Emory, and Vanderbilt all have higher acceptance rates than Georgetown. If anything, this will probably hurt Georgetown, since they have one of the lowest acceptance rates of the non-Ivy schools. Maybe Georgetown will move up for other reasons, but if everything remained the same, and they just removed acceptance rate, Georgetown would probably move down if anything.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if JHU's supposed 40 point SAT increase is really due to mistakenly comparing scores of this year's accepted students to the previous year's actual enrolled students. Just a thought. It does seem to be a rather large improvement in just one year. The former figure is usually higher due to the fact that the higher scoring students have many competing options and may choose not to enroll.</p>
<p>Before I thought Penn was over ranked, but after I visited and saw admission statistics from my school I changed my mind. Penn, this year, admitted less kids than Princeton, MIT, Harvard, and Yale from my school...</p>
<p>San Diego State, is the most prestigious university in the west, many consider it the Yale of the west. People wear nothing but ascots and condescending attitudes fill the campus. I predict via deep analysis and fundamental research that SD State will easily be at the top of this list by 2008.</p>
<p>Indiana should/might move up to the 60's. Seems like every program it has is a top 25 in the nation. Only problem is that it doesn't have a engineering program, or med school. And the fact that it's really easy to get into.</p>
<p>I think I remember that class rank was not going to be used in the rankings this year, which is strange since everyone is saying this stat will actually carry more wait. Does anyone remember reading or hearing the same thing I did?</p>
<p>bball87 - people who can't get into HYPSM mostly go to Penn. I dunno, my H.S. has a VERY good placement into ivies and such. (we had 4 people who got into HYP, i got into HYPM, etc.)</p>
<p>I think given what I have heard of the new forumla, NYU will probably slip a little...and Indiana will rise a little. But the changes will be very minor. so people shouldn't expect major shifts.</p>
<p>Indiana is a good school, and I feel is getting better. But almost everyone gets in. So they will probably never make top 50. But that doesn't matter. Because indivudal programs, they are among the top.</p>