<p>If Colgate is as good as Cornell, how good is Vassar which is at least as good as Colgate is?</p>
<p>Tennessee
1. Vanderbilt
2. University of the South</p>
<p>those are really the only good school in TN</p>
<p>Why doesn't Rhodes make your short list?</p>
<p>In PA, Lafayette is certainly more highly regarded than F&M or certainly Muhlenberg. </p>
<p>Here, not as much as youd think. Muhl certainly is VERY well regarded for education.</p>
<p>I also would like to know why Rhodes did not make your list?</p>
<p>Cornell should actually be slightly above Columbia. It is stronger in many more departments and has superior facilities and campus (I spent a weekend at both). Columbia has its NYC location as a big plus (for some), and a higher selectivity based on the fact that it is much tinier. Columbia used to be the cellar dweller of the Ivy League before so many people decided it was fashionable to go to college in NYC. Same thing happened with NYU.</p>
<p>New York:
1. Cornell
1a. Columbia
3. NYU
4. Colgate
5. Vassar
6. Hamilton
7. Cooper Union
8. RPI
9. CUNY w/Scholarship
10. SUNY-Binghamton</p>
<p>^^^ woah. nyu ahead of colgate, vassar, hamilton, cooper union? what are you smoking?</p>
<p>yeah, thats kind of ridiculous. i know i already posted, but i think (u of) rochester should be on this list ahead of some of them, and cuny ONLY if its honors, which then definitely should be. is rit really that great?</p>
<p>id put vassar and cooper ahead of nyu in a second. does this poster live in ny?</p>
<p>Listen, you can't take this too seriously....it's just one silly list! But if you want me to support it, NYU has much higher name recognition than Vassar, Cooper Union, Rochester, and every other school in New York State except Cornell and Columbia. You must have seen the polls of national high school students where NYU is the #1 "dream college" in America several years running, right? The applications to the school have skyrocketed, and its law, business, and medical schools are ranked among the best in the country. Its film school is world renowned. You can tell me the undergrad education at Vassar or Cooper or Colgate might better in certain areas, but how can you compare these small liberal arts or technical colleges with a national university with such prominent professional schools and graduate programs like NYU? You can't!</p>
<p>Wow way to completely forget Rochester in your rankings there SorGirl</p>
<p>i thought it was how good a school is all around, not just prestige... you can't put nyu above just because of prestige. doesn't make sense</p>
<p>sorgirl- to rank on name recognition doesnt mean anything on quality of school (which is what 'top' schools mean). thats like ranking uconn (a solid school, and well known of their athletic prowess) over wesleyan (one of the top LACs in the country) because people in idaho have heard of uconn but probably not wesleyan.</p>
<p>NYU has more name recognition than Vassar, which is one of the 7 Sisters? I don't reckon. Don't confuse notariety or "prestige" with quality.</p>
<p>NYU has absolutely more recognition than Vassar. Most of the country has no idea what you're talking about when you say "The Seven Sisters"</p>
<p>There's no doubt NYU has more name recog. than Vassar. I know colleges really well, but I couldnt begin to tell you anything about Vassar.</p>
<p>Tennessee
1. Vanderbilt
2. University of the South</p>
<h2>3. Rhodes</h2>
<p>Penn State has more name recognition than UPenn, but that doesn't mean that people that know of both don't recognize UPenn as more highly academically respected. Also, this is undergrad ranking, so supporting NYU with talk about their med and law schools doesn't make any sense. The acceptance rate for NYU is higher than for Colgate, Vassar, Hamilton and avg SAT for NYU is lower than Colgate, Vassar, Hamilton, URochester. Plus, with NYU's moniker of #1 "dream college" in the USA (whatever that means), you would think that more than 14% of admitted students would want to attend.</p>
<p>"Tennessee
1. Vanderbilt
2. University of the South</p>
<h2>3. Rhodes"</h2>
<p>What about university of tennessee?</p>
<p>Penn State has more name recognition than UPenn</p>
<p>Not at all. Where the heck are you in PA? PSU is more POPULAR then Penn (at least here), but the ratio isnt horrible. We had 35 to Penn State and around 12 to UPenn.</p>
<p>Michigan</p>
<ol>
<li>U of Mich</li>
</ol>
<p>(iffy on the next ones, check me if you want)</p>
<ol>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Lawerence Tech</li>
<li>Ferris State</li>
<li>Calvin</li>
<li>Hope College</li>
<li>Grand Valley</li>
<li>Michigan Tech</li>
<li>Central Michigan</li>
<li>Western Michigan
maybe?---Detriot Mercy</li>
</ol>