<p>Someone's gonna lose their job, lol.</p>
<p>omg this is hilarious. Forbes is garbage.</p>
<p>this is like newsweek's (or was it us weekly? pretty sure it was newsweek) thing about the top 920348208 high schools
it makes no sense</p>
<p>Although I agree with people that there are some super crazy placements, I think it's nice that the list emphasizes some of the top LACs (Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams) by putting them in the top ten. They rock--especially Swarthmore! =)</p>
<p>I agree with Kicharo- parts are nice, but as I look further down the list, I can't quiiiiite believe it.</p>
<p>Claremont McKenna at 40 while Franklin and Marshall is at 35? Are you kidding me? I guess I should have just stayed home and gone to F&M! Haha and UPenn at 61.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is in the 120s. ha.</p>
<p>haha.</p>
<p>this list is trash.</p>
<p>This list is pointless. I now hate Forbes.</p>
<p>Why is NYU rated #324? Dartmouth in the hundreds?</p>
<p>Their methodology is flawed. If you look at the other thread in the College Admissions section, they base it on some 'rate my professors' website mainly and then a bunch of other random factors. Pathetic if you ask me.</p>
<p>Forbes just lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of the world.</p>
<p>Some other totally weird rankings, compared to USNEWs, Newsweek, and others;</p>
<p>Lehigh University: #310
New York University: #326
Northeastern University: #568
Stevens Institute of Technology: #565
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: #524
University of Maryland, College Park: #410
University of Pittsburgh: #297
University of Southern California: #300
University of Michigan: #161
Dartmouth College: #127
WUSTL: #146</p>
<p>Just a few examples (Didn't feel like going through the whole list). They basically just flipped off 99% of the world's best universities.</p>
<p>At least they got Pace University right, at #561. That college is one piece of crap.</p>
<p>They base their rankings 50% on stupid factors. The first 25% is based on ratemyprofessors.com, and the other 25% on which alumni made it into some book called " Who's who in America."</p>
<p>They just wanted to give a "new" perspective to college admissions. I guess that means joining the military.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice that UPenn was 61?</p>
<p>And Dartmouth is something like 177, and Carnegie Mellon is something like 266.</p>
<p>I looked at the methodology, and found what's making to so screwy.</p>
<p>**"1. Listing of Alumni in the 2008 Who's Who in America (25%)</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Student Evaluations of Professors from Ratemyprofessors.com (25%)</p></li>
<li><p>Four- Year Graduation Rates (16 2/3%)</p></li>
<li><p>Enrollment-adjusted numbers of students and faculty receiving nationally competitive awards (16 2/3%)</p></li>
<li><p>Average four year accumulated student debt of those borrowing money (16 2/3%)"**</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Yeah. Even if I hadn't taken AP Stat I'd have known this was no good.</p>
<p>CalTech beats Harvard and MIT- MAYBE, JUST MAYBE
UNCCH beats UC Berkeley- BSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (that's just my opinion)
Overall, most of the liberal arts colleges are up there.</p>
<p>I don't understand this though-</p>
<p>Cost of West Point- N/A
Cost of USAFA- 0</p>
<p>They're both military service academies and the policy is the same. In exchange for a free college education, you must serve in the military after graduation. So why is one 0 dollars and the other N/A?</p>
<p>I predict they'll take down that list in a matter of weeks due to some pretty unhappy phone calls (probably from some of you here). I find it amusing how Forbes accuses US News of "monopolizing the college rankings" and then comes up with a completely different list just to justify their claim.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice that this list says the percent of applicants accepted to Yale is 97% ??</p>
<p>this list is sooooo bad. rpi=499???? stevens=565????
no stupid list is gonna tell me that my college is only 565th best in the country!
w t f???</p>
<p>@Doll Face: They've fixed it now... that bug makes me laugh, though.</p>
<p>And I definitely don't trust this list. Mount Holyoke is in the 70s, and WPI is 557? The methodology is crazy and flawed, and the rankings are the most inaccurate I've seen.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Yay. UVA is #5 on best public colleges. :)
I think the rest is BS.</p>