My Rankings Prediction

College Search & Selection
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<p>I know rankings don’t mean anything but I saw a bunch of these threads and this is what I’m predicting:</p>

<li><p>Princeton
Harvard</p></li>
<li><p>Yale
Stanford</p></li>
<li><p>MIT </p></li>
<li><p>Columbia
Dartmouth
UPenn
CalTech</p></li>
<li><p>Duke
Brown
Northwestern</p></li>
<li><p>UChicago
Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins
WUSTL</p></li>
<li><p>Vanderbilt
Notre Dame</p></li>
<li><p>Rice
Berkeley</p></li>
<li><p>Emory
Georgetown</p></li>
<li><p>UVA
Carnegie Mellon
Michigan</p></li>
<li><p>UCLA
Wake Forest
UNC</p></li>
<li><p>Tufts
NYU
USC
William and Mary</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>Cornell, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Cal and Michigan are going to jump in the rankings because of the new USNWR formula. I would say Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Chicago will make it into the top 10 and Cal and Michigan will probably be between #19 and #22.</p>

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<p>Can you elaborate on this new formula, and how it affects the rankings?</p>

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<p>Is the entire selectivity section taken out, or just percent admitted?</p>

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<p>I am not sure Slipper. I would like to know too. I think it is only the yield and % accepted. In short, I think the USNWR will only focus on the components that determine quality of students (class rank, GPA and SAT) rather than selectivity. I also hope they do away with the Alumni giving rates, graduate rates and financial resources.</p>

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<p>I think that will be the case as well. I believe yield is already taken out as a factor, so % accepted will be the factor to go. This should boost to the schools you mentioned.</p>

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<p>taking out selectivity will not help berkeley. their acceptance rate is pretty low, i think?</p>

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<p>I remember reading somewhere that acceptance rate is only 1.5% of the formula, so taking it out probably won't be a factor at all.</p>

<p>If anything, it will hurt Berkeley's ranking due to its ~20% acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>The overall measure of Selectivity counted for 15% of the overall ranking, and the acceptance rate counts for 10% of the overall measure of selectivity, so AceRockolla is right. Incidentally, that's how much weight yield had before it was dropped.</p>

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<p>I thought the new formula was dropping, students who were in the top 10% of their high school class. Does anyone know for sure what they are changing or are we all just going on rumours and speculation?</p>