With some right on observations
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/every-bcs-division-i-school-ranked?share=c
A lot of good ones there. Thanks for sharing, barrons.
As an alumna of UT, a rival of Texas A&M, I love A&M’s observation: “Become an Aggie and your sole reason for waking up in the AM will be hating a university that you no longer share an athletic conference with and a town that makes yours look like a rural piss stain (which it is). Technically your classmates will be far less dumb than the stereotype (the academics are very solid), but you’ll still somehow emerge from undergrad a less interesting person than when you started.”
I also like UT’s: “UT is cursed by underperforming football and basketball teams… and you’ll get over each annual heartache in about four minutes, because Austin is that rare bird that’s one of the best college towns in America, and one of the best town-towns in America. Yeah, the traffic’s ass, but you’ll be living walking/biking distance from campus so who cares. Just try and ignore the roving packs of mid-30s dudes on bachelor parties asking where Franklin Barbecue is.”
Iron Works is better:)
I kept reading down the list, looking for UW Madison…and what do you know? Number 1!!
Updating D list again…very helpful.
1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
The Terrace, Camp Randall, Bascom Hill, all those beautiful lakes that famous dead musicians’ planes crashed into, one billion (literally) bars, legitimately amazing biotech and engineering programs, RON DAYNE – people who went to Madison won’t shut up about how great Madison is. And if you’ve ever visited, you have to begrudgingly admit it’s because Madison is pretty damn perfect. As long as you aren’t there in February.
Dear lord. This is a demonstration of the Murphy’s Law of College Confidential. If there is a ranking, someone will take it seriously.
This is my favorite ranking system. Be sure to refresh it several times for the full benefit http://www.rankyourcollege.com/ddmethod.html
@MaineLonghorn that made me crack up. I attended Texas A&M but my whole family went to UT. Very funny…especially about the packs of 30-somethings.
@YogSothoth Sorry, I forgot to add “LOL” after my comment, or a smiley face. Anyway, I was kidding.
I thought the quote about Rice was funny as well. " Rice University
Rice is like MIT for people who’d rather die than live in Boston. Okay, maybe some of them wanted to go to MIT but whatever, at Rice you can be a sunburned science/math nerd."
At least THE Ohio State University is finally ranked correctly.
Pleasantly surprised about #1 UW. They didn’t mention the excellent academics along with all of the reasons I loved the campus and see how it is even better now. btw, the thread starter went to UW-Madison- no wonder he posted this…
As a proud Badger, I couldn’t agree more with UW being #1!