<p>I have to agree that athletic programs do a great job at getting a school’s name out there, but people typically don’t make inferences about a given school’s academic prowess while they watch a football game.</p>
<p>Still, one great game can go a long way towards increasing a school’s name recognition. After all, how many people had heard of Appalachian State before they went up against Alexandre’s alma mater a few years ago? :)</p>
<p>However, the study shows that winning athletics equals better academic recruiting in the long run.</p>
<p>So why isn’t everyone applying to Louisville?</p>
<p>Cause it’s not that much of a superpower at all. UK would be the best in the state.</p>
<p>“Not so true. Everybody nationwide knows the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, etc…”</p>
<p>Actually, I didn’t know UTexas was a reputable school until I started posting on this site. I thought it was a party school along the lines of UConn and Penn State.</p>
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<p>You can replace test scores with tax returns and Hawkette would end up with the exact same ranking.</p>
<p>Well, ignorance is bliss</p>
<p>The rankings probably do have an Eastern bias against the midwest, south, and west.</p>
<p>However, only a blithering idiot would equate ‘commuter school’ to a community college.
UCI was once a commuter school, but that had more to do with the age of the school, limited on campus housing, location, local real estate development and nearby housing costs, easy transportation, etc. that have nothing at all to do with the quality of education. Even Cal States are way above community colleges.
UCI happens to be the highest ranked young (less than 50 years old) university in the country. Considering that ranking formulas are indirectly tied to number of graduates (which mean greater name recognition and larger endowments), and the older the university the more graduates, it is quite an accomplishment for such a young school.</p>
<p>UCI, most people don’t know what that is outside of California. Get over it.</p>
<p>Exactly my point. Name recognition comes when a school is OLD…100,200,300 etc. years old. To be under 50 years old and ranked in the top 50 in the nation? Amazing!</p>
<p>Inside California, only thing we know about the “University of Texas” or “University of Michigan” is that they have something to do with the states of those names and probably have multiple campuses somewhere like Austin/Houston/Dallas/San Antonio/El Paso or Detroit/Lansing/Ann Arbor. You call that name recognition? It is the state name that has the recognition, not the school.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a thread comparing state university systems, CA vs. MA vs. MI vs. TX vs. WI vs. OH vs PA or similar.</p>
<p>But Californians are known to be insecure ignorant isolationists for a reason infact.</p>
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<p>Why are all your posts so hateful? Your sole purpose is to insult anything from Philly to Orlando to UCF to California to UH.</p>
<p>Everything is bigger in Texas, including mouths.</p>
<p>The guy above tried to say that in California they don’t know UTexas and UMichigan. That’s a fat lie for the sole purpose of insulting.</p>
<p>SuperPippo, it’s really not necessary to lie to insult you.</p>
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<p>Uh, so what? Clark University and Catholic Universities were also founding members of the AAU. They aren’t top-tier schools the last time I checked. MIT and Caltech didn’t join until 1934. I would argue that these are schools that had established themselves as top-tier schools before Berkeley did so - Caltech especially, having won a bunch of Nobels before Cal had won a single one.</p>
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<p>You’re not the only one: Playboy lists UT as the #2 top party school. </p>
<p>[Playboy</a> U - Party Schools - College Girls - Pictures - Videos](<a href=“http://www.playboyu.com/playboy-party-schools]Playboy”>http://www.playboyu.com/playboy-party-schools)</p>
<p>Think how great to be able to attend a school which is excellent for academics and top for party. </p>
<p>I feel sorry for people at some of those boring schools.</p>
<p>Apparently, UT is only a 16 for “brains”, but UF is a perfect 20.
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<p>UF is a great school. No question about it. Just not as good as UT in engineering and business.</p>