How popular top colleges are to CCers

College Search & Selection
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<p>This ranks the Ivies and Top CC Universites in terms of number of posts made on the forum.
Yea, I have no life (hey it's summer after freshman year), but enjoy it those of you who find it interesting!</p>

<p>Princeton 73,517
Penn 66,836
Cornell 66,084
Harvard 60,603
Yale 48,578
Berkeley 38,135
Columbia 36,138
Stanford 32,393
Brown 31,380
MIT 30,713
UCLA 27,223
Chicago 26,310
UMich 25,408
Dartmouth 22,145
Duke 21,320
Northwestern 16,144
Georgetown 15,715
UVA 13,839
Rice 13,055
Johns Hopkins 12,947
Carnegie Mellon 10,674
WashU 9,807
Caltech 9,173
Emory 8,127
Notre Dame 6,231
UNC 5,178
Vandy 5,029</p>

<p>It's nice to not have Harvard and Yale at #1 and #2 at something, huh?</p>

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<p>Niceee...this should be the new system of ranking colleges.</p>

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<p>The first time the top 3 publics made into top 20.</p>

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<p>Actually there are 4. haha Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, and UVA</p>

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<p>South Harmon Institute of Technology didn't make the list?</p>

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<p>I'm sorry but how did you get these numbers?</p>

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<p>Niiiice. I think this is a much better ranking than U.S. News. Hey Berkeley is at #6 just like the peer assessment ranks it. Apparently it's something on which university faculty and students agree.</p>

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<p>I should keep randomly posting in the hopes Berkeley will move up some spots on this ranking!</p>

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<p>Well, Berkeley is behind #5 by 10,443 posts. Good luck. :)</p>

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<p>Don't worry I'm going to start an argument with Sakky :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>I got the numbers here:</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Very nice work..</p>

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<p>you should divide the number of posts by the number of undergrad students. you cant really compare caltech and michigan if you don't take size into consideration.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you need to shift for school size. Of course UCLA will have alot of posts, its HUGE!!</p>

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<p>I don't think you necessarily have to divide the number of posts by the size of the student body. To do so would suggest that the amount of interest in a school would be a function of its size. Harvard has about 6,000 undergrads and UCLA has about 24,000 undergrads, four times as many. But, 20,000 applied to Harvard and 40,000 applied to UCLA, only twice as many. Do you see my point? The number of posts is not constrained by the size of the school. The number of posts is constrained by popularity, not enrollment (in the same sense that the number of applications is constrained by popularity, not enrollment).</p>

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<p>And for the LACs - </p>

<ol>
<li> Swarthmore</li>
<li> Williams</li>
<li> Smith</li>
<li> Wellesley</li>
<li> Amherst</li>
<li> Pomona</li>
<li> Colgate</li>
<li> Wesleyan</li>
<li> Middlebury</li>
<li>Vassar</li>
<li>Barnard</li>
<li>Bowdoin</li>
<li>Washington & Lee</li>
<li>Kenyon</li>
<li>Carleton</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
<li>Bates</li>
<li>Grinnell</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke</li>
<li>Bryn Mawr</li>
<li>Harvey Mudd</li>
<li>Oberlin</li>
<li>Reed</li>
<li>Macalester</li>
<li>Trinity</li>
<li>Colby
Hamilton (tie)</li>
<li>Davidson</li>
<li>Whitman</li>
</ol>

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<p>Haha. You know, by this methodology, people could've posted ANYTHING about the college, and the nature of the comment wouldn't matter a bit. In other words, I could go to the Princeton forum and repeatedly bash Princeton, and it'd actually make Princeton seem more popular. Not that I would, especially since it's among my top choices, but you get the point.</p>

<p>I know this whole thing was never meant to be scientific in any way, but a better thread title might be "Most Discussed..."</p>

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<p>Overall, though, it still relates to interest in the schools and is interesting to see how similar discussion of schools translates so closely to USNWR rankings of schools. It is surprising to me that Swarthmore would garner more interest on here than Williams.</p>

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<p>Yea.</p>

<p>And I thought about adjusting for school size, but then I considered exactly what collegehelp said.</p>

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<p>Yeah, there is some method to the madness since so many of the posts constitute "Chances" threads; the more popular the college, the higher the anxiety. Am I right or am I wrong?</p>