Just how much liberal BIAS and south hater is USNews?

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<p>Old NRC rankings:

[NRC</a> Rankings](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc1.html)</p>

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<p>Number of applications means nothing in terms of quality of the students applying.</p>

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<p>ok superpippo, I see the whole point of this thread was to prove that Texas A&M is a very good school, I won’t question you on that fact. TAMU is amazing and was one of the schools on my radar, however I don’t like the fact that you are trying to specifically prove that it is better than this school or that because there is no such thing as a “better school” when comparing schools like TAMU and UC-Davis, depends on what you want to do. Engineering? go to TAMU, Biological Sciences? go to UC-Davis</p>

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<p>Exactly my point pierre.</p>

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<p>Ray, I personally like Hawkette’s method that ranks UCSB 70, Davis 84, and Irvine 96. Which seems about right to me. Any system that has six UC schools in the top 50 is suspect.</p>

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<p>UT-Austin is a better school than UCLA. Most majors rank higher at UT. Look at Engineering and Business.</p>

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<p>ONCE AGAIN, ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS ARE NOT THE ONLY MAJORS AT A COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY…jeez use some common sense</p>

<p>you can’t say UT-Austin is a better school than UCLA because we know that 1/6th of the majors at UT-Austin are better…</p>

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<p>The point was that if Texas was that much more well known, if it would actually get more applicants, considering there’s virtually no difference between their standards in terms of admission.</p>

<p>And really, can you show me that Austin has a discernibly better quality student body? I’d like to see the stats.</p>

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<p>“what about Clemson, do people think that it is “ranked” right as of right now?”</p>

<p>Sorry, I couldn’t tell you a darn thing about it other than it’s a sports school. Like Auburn. No clue if it’s good, bad or indifferent, or highly selective / not at all selective. It gets no mention I’m aware of aside from sports.</p>

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<p>Any system that doesn’t rank your favorite schools high will always be supsect, fact. I just like poking holes in that dude’s argument.</p>

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<p>Are you kidding me? UT-Austin is known nationwide. and internationally (top school for Latin Americans). Ask in Florida or in the north east. Everybody knows it and respect it as a superior school. Then you have the hype for the Longhorns. </p>

<p>Those random UC secondary campuses are not known beyond the Arizona and Oregon borders.</p>

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<p>I think we need to end this discussion right now, it’s getting very ridiculous. Once again I will reiterate, there is no such thing as a “better college” when comparing schools that can be ranked differently in different rankings.</p>

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<p>Statistics plz.</p>

<p>Y’know, the more you talk the worse I think of the South. Keep at it.</p>

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<p>Texas Longhorns! Everybody knows them.</p>

<p>I don’t even know the mascot of those UC schools without football team. Enough said.</p>

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<p>I’m from the east coast, I was at a lab talking to a scientist about college. I said that I wanted to go where it was warm. He said Berkeley was amazing, UCLA was to a lesser degree for science, then the other UCs, UT, and UF not in any specific order. Did not mention UCSB or or TAMU.</p>

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<p>ahah Berkeley is not even warm. Wait until the fog kicks in August!!!</p>

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<p>I never heard of the Longhorns before in my life. </p>

<p>In fact, I doubt anybody knows the mascots of, say, Harvard or Columbia.</p>

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<p>I don’t know the mascots of any UC, except UCLA.</p>

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<p>I actually agreed with SP that Texas schools were slightly underrated by USNWR and Cali overrated:</p>

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<p>That’s being pretty generous to Texas. But he won’t be satisfied. I mean, he’s said things like Texas being better than Berkeley in ECONOMICS, and that the only reason Berkeley was ranked higher was liberal bias. When I showed him that Chicago was even more conservative in economics, he tried a new line of attack, that the second best public in Texas was better than the fourth best public in California.</p>

<p>Since all of his academic points have been refuted, SP is talking about football and weather.</p>

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<p>Nice try…I saw burnt orange tshirts on a regular base in California. It’s virtually the most popular college team in the nation.</p>

<p>Nice try with comparing the secondary UCs to Harvard and Columbia. Pretty funny.</p>