<p>i did write that? didn't i?</p>
<p><em>checks</em></p>
<p>yeah i definitely did</p>
<p>then again this is not the topic eh</p>
<p>Yeah, Redbull! Way to go!</p>
<p>Mr. Amused-</p>
<p>Amherst college is a public school?....hehe...I am AMUSED...</p>
<p>U Mass amherst</p>
<p>those people who bash on liberal arts colleges... i wonder what got into their mind to consider some of the most prestigious & selective colleges in the USA as trash..... Please don't do that, or at least keep it in your own mind because in eyes of many educated people, you will be viewed as an ignorant person who is obssessed with prestige.</p>
<p>Theres a difference between UMass Amherst and Amherst, and I really don't understand people like Amused. But then again, I expect those same people to pull up some bogus stats and percentages which say that "people who go to Ivy Leagues are more qualified in the job arena than people who go to State U."</p>
<p>Give me a break.</p>
<p>are you trying to tell me you think ivy grads are not better suited for the work world? there is a reason the top companies go to Ivy League schools to recruit and pass on the state schools.</p>
<p>Everyone please kindly remove the sticks from your backsides. If you had bothered to maybe read my entire post instead of just reading the beginning and freaking out, you would have seen that it was filled with sarcasm.</p>
<p>Did you not read this part? "The following schools are not safeties for anyone when we enter the "CollegeConfidential zone"." This indicates that I am parodying the twilight zone (ie a place of little logic - the mindset of most CC prestige whores) </p>
<p>Or how about this: "What you have just seen may have frightened you, enlightened you, even tightened you. If you turn back now, you will just escape it's magnetic pull. Your knowledge of what really goes on in college admissions has granted you a pardon. But if you should ever meet the US News Ranking, you had better think non-prestigious thoughts. Anything more ignorant than that is handled at your own risk. Because if you do meet the US News Rankings you can be sure of one thing. You have entered the "CollegeConfidential" zone."</p>
<p>I was praising you for not falling into the prestige trap.</p>
<p>Maybe you guys should read the whole post before you respond next time? And don't take that "holier than thou" attitude when you address "prestige whores" next time, because it makes you look just as stubborn and ignorant as them.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UChicago, Northwestern. The first six/seven are a notch above others. Caltech is up there with MIT for academic quality.</p>
<p>i wasn't attacking you amused, i got your sarcasm:). I was attacking the previous poster. asiaknight, UChicago might be easier to get in but the academic quality is SAME.</p>
<p>the only person to ever win 2 Nobel prizes was Linus Pauling.
He attended Oregon STATE.
After his undergrad he went to Cal Tech but was forced to resign for political issues</p>
<p>Sorry Amused. I read through your post, but I didn't see the sarcasm. My bad.</p>
<p>In general, making a prestigious ranking is ludicrous.</p>
<p>irock1ce is right, </p>
<p>Brown,Dartmouth,Cornell,Penn,Williams and Swarthmore I never heard of, and even in college now I still dont know what Williams is, lol.</p>
<p>1.) Harvard
2.) MIT
3.) Stanford
4.) Princeton/Yale</p>
<p>williams and swarthmore are regarded as two of the best 3 lib arts colleges</p>
<p>brown, dartmouth and penn are all ivy league
and cornell is pretty well known anyways.</p>
<p>maybe I am just much more aware of other colleges than most, because I did spend a lot of time researching this so I could find the one which I would feel best at, but it does seem weird to have never heard of 3 of the Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>Well I did hear about them once I started looking for colleges, but before that as a kid, I never heard of them, but then again I didn't even know what ivy league meant, I just knew that smart people went to them, lol.</p>
<p>As for liberal arts school, I'll admit I'm biased. I never really considered them, when applying to college, so never really got to know them.</p>
<p>Why guess when this topic has been researched by national publications.
In the world of undergraduate education Princeton Univ. is top dog. The researchers who have concluded this include the following:
1. U.S. News & World Report
2. The Atlantic Monthly
3. The Prowlr Student College Guide
4. The Princeton Reviews List of Toughest Schools to Get Into
5. The Early Admissions Game (where Avery himself, a Harvard
employee/researcher lists Princetons median SAT as the highest
in the country (behind only tech schools CalTech/MIT).
6. The Consus Group which regularly flip flops H and P at 1 and 2.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that in the world of UNDERGRADUATE rankings no school gets more number one rankings than Princeton.</p>
<p>harvard is in so many other rankings as top school (mostly because of its name =P)</p>
<p>Can you name them Anthony? Are they undrgraduate or graduate rankings?</p>
<p>1.) U.S. News and World Report (tied for first)
2.) The Consus Group (as you stated)
3.) LAISSEZ-FAIRE ranking
4.) University of Floridia Ranking "The Center"
5.) London ranking, that ranked Berkeley #2 (Forgot the name, London times?)
6.) Metrick's student preference (where students that got accepted to both schools for undergrad, where they would rather go)</p>
<p>Also I'd like to discard some of your rankings:
4. The Princeton Reviews List of Toughest Schools to Get Into
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=1&topicID=10%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=1&topicID=10</a></p>
<p>Anthony, you have included reseach university rankings in your list. These rankings measure graduate programs as well. That is why I highlighted UNDERGRADUATE rankings. Princeton is primarily an undergraduate school where undergraduates get maximum attention.</p>
<p>Also, what is your rationale for eliminating the Princeton Review ranking of the toughest schools to get into? The Princeton Review's publications are the most widely read in the country among GCs, parents and H.S. seniors. </p>
<p>Do you have any pure UNDERGRADUATE rankings?</p>