HAs anyone Sorted the US News List by the Selectivity Rating?

<p>Would appreciate-a table is not avaliable at the premium site.</p>

<p>As would I. With actual statistics alongside.</p>

<p>Is it something you have to pay for? Show me where. I might sign up.</p>

<p>OK, i signed up. what do u want to know?</p>

<p>i’m also curious as to what the top 15-20 schools sorted by selectivity are this year.</p>

<p>From running school to school in the premium volume the Selectivity rank appears to be as follows:
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
MIT
Cal Tech
Penn
WashU STL
Columbia
Brown
Stanford
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Duke</p>

<p>Did you do it for LACs?</p>

<p>No, afraid not.</p>

<p>Yale is on the top…Why?</p>

<p>Why not?</p>

<p>ten char</p>

<p>National universities sorted by “Selectivity Rank”:

  1. Yale
  2. Harvard; Princeton; Caltech; MIT
  3. Penn; WUSTL
  4. Columbia
  5. Stanford; Brown
  6. Dartmouth
  7. Duke; G’town
  8. UC-Berkeley
  9. Chicago; Northwestern; Cornell; Emory; Notre Dame</p>

<p>LAC:

  1. HMC
  2. Swarthmore; Pomona; Haverford
  3. Williams
  4. Middlebury; CMC; Washington and Lee
  5. Amherst; Bowdoin
  6. Davidson
  7. Carleton
  8. Wellesley
  9. Vassar; Barnard
  10. Wesleyan; Oberlin
  11. Colgate; Hamilton; Bucknell</p>

<p>What does ‘selectivity’ mean? I assume it doesn’t refer to acceptance rate.</p>

<p>not sure exactly, but a mix of acceptance rate, matriculation rate, and something else</p>

<p>Wesleyan’s selectivity ranking sounds too low.</p>

<p>US news says test scores worth 50%, acceptance rate 10%, and “top-10% in HS” 40%. Yet, the ranking order reflects more about the top-10% in HS than test scores. Duke, Chicago, Northwestern have noticeably higher SAT ranges than G’town. WUSTL’s SAT is significantly higher than Penn’s and at least 8 schools ranked after Penn have higher SAT range than Penn. Go figure!</p>

<p>For anyone interested, here are the US NEWS ranking for Best Undergrad Teaching:</p>

<p>For Liberal Arts Colleges:</p>

<p>Pomona College
Swarthmore College
Davidson College
Oberlin College
Earlham College
Carleton College
Haverford College
Williams College
Reed College
College of Wooster
Centre College
Sewanee–University of the South Sewanee, TN
University of North Carolina
Amherst College
St. Olaf College
Wabash College
Agnes Scott College Decatur, GA
Calvin College
College of St. Benedict
College of the Holy Cross
Connecticut College
Fisk University
Furman University
Hamilton College
Pitzer College
St. John’s University
Wellesley College</p>

<p>And here are the best for universities:</p>

<p>Dartmouth College
Princeton University
Yale University
Stanford University
University of Maryland–Baltimore County
Brown University
College of William and Mary
Duke University
Miami University–Oxford
University of Notre Dame
Bowling Green State University
Howard University
Rice University
University of California–Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
University of St. Thomas
Wake Forest University</p>

<p>The above lists are somewhat misleading as there are a lot of ties. Here’s the USNWR’s “Best Undergraduate Teaching” ranks again:</p>

<p>“Many colleges have a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates over graduate-level research. The schools on these lists are noted by college administrators as paying a particular focus on undergraduate teaching.”</p>

<p>National Universities:

  1. Dartmouth
  2. Princeton
  3. Yale
  4. Stanford; U of Maryland-Baltimore County
  5. Brown; William & Mary
  6. Duke; Miami U-Oxford; Notre Dame
  7. Bowling Green State; Howard; Rice; UC-Berkeley; Chicago; Michigan; UNC-Chapel Hill; St. Thomas; Wake Forest</p>

<p>Liberal Arts Colleges:

  1. Pomona
  2. Swarthmore
  3. Davidson; Oberlin
  4. Earlham
  5. Carleton; Haverford
  6. Williams
  7. Reed
  8. Wooster
  9. Centre College
  10. Sewanee; UNC-Asheville
  11. Amherst; St. Olaf; Wabash
  12. Agnes Scott; Calvin; St. Benedict; Holy Cross; Connecticut</p>

<p>harvard didn’t even make the list</p>

<p>No Middlebury for Best Undergraduate Teaching???</p>

<p>No Bowdoin for best undergrad teaching?</p>