Finally - College rankings based on something important!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Well, this fails to account for the size of the school - you need to divide the thread count by the undergraduate size to get a weighted interest factor. </p>

<p>Then, I suggest you multiply by the mean temperature where the campus is located, divided by the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, then raise that to the power of the number of characters in the schools’ name. So:</p>

<p>n=((c<em>thread / ug</em>size) * mean<em>temp / v</em>swallow)**chars<em>in</em>name</p>

<p>And then, what the heck, multiply “n” by pi.</p>

<p>Why? Because I like pi.</p>

<p>Then, you’ll have yet another meaningless number that tells you absolutely nothing about the school, and should be equally valid as US News’ … ;)</p>

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<p>I opened this hoping it was going to reference the squirrel ranking. Although it is SERIOUSLY FLAWED.</p>

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<p>I noticed the OP conveniently skipped any schools not listed on the “CC Top Universities List” or “CC Top Liberal Arts List” or “Top Service Academies List”.</p>

<p>If they had actually gone to ALL of the school sites, they would have seen that Indiana University at Bloomington would have been in the top 6 sites in terms of number of replies on CC–approximately 197 (and undoubtedly, there are other schools that fall into this category as well).</p>

<p>Not saying the poll is useful–just questioning how useful it can it be when the numbers aren’t even computed correctly.</p>

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<p>gadad, you have got waaaaaayyyyy too much free time.</p>

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<p>You need to account for size. The ranking should be recalculated according to number of students.</p>

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<p>admitone,</p>

<p>Since the population of the people who can be interested in a school is in no way related to the number of people actually attending the school, I fail to see the logic behind your suggestion.</p>

<p>—but then, maybe you were just trying to give us a suggestion as humorous as that proposed by the OP.</p>

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<p>Then it should be weighted according to the number of last-year applicants.</p>

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<p>I wonder if this correlates more strongly to the number of alumni/current students that browse their respective college’s board.</p>

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<p>Okay, I don’t know if this has been said, but this ranking is completely unscientific. Why does the # of replies mean anything?</p>

<p>This should be based on how many views there are for the threads and not the # of replies :smiley: that really shows how popular the school is.</p>

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<p>^Someone should definitely figure out the rankings that way too, I would be really interested to see if the order changes much.</p>

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<p>lol @ cc nerds taking this so seriously…</p>

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<p>Has anyone stopped to think the OP made up the numbers off the top of their head? I really hope he/she did</p>