<p>Yeshiva is in New York, Manhattan more precisely. It’s located in upper Manhattan on West 185th street (I live pretty close to it). Not sure why you want it to fall from the top 50 since you don’t know anything about it, but maybe that’s why.</p>
<p>Selectivity is only tangentially related to the caliber of a school – my #77 school is ranked much lower than some schools with higher selectivity ratings. Matter of fact, my alma mater has a 35% acceptance rate (just about), and many of the public universities that I would definitely say are much better than it have higher acceptance rates, including Brandeis. Selectivity just has to do with how many people apply for your school versus how many spaces you have. Some schools have a high selectivity rate because they are extremely well-known and popular and many people apply for them (like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.) Brandeis isn’t as well-known as them, so they don’t have as high an acceptance rate. However, my alma mater is very popular amongst young black women because it’s a historically black women’s college, so we get a lot of applicants.</p>
<p>But LOL, I have no bone to pick, really – I was just musing, because you already said they are based just on your personal judgments. We all have personal ideas about what order the schools should be in, and it’s somewhat interesting to see how others regard them.</p>
<p>Brandeis lost 250 Million dollars and other bad things happened to it. I would know, it was constantly on the Boston Globe. It is quite well known around New England. Brandeis is a very good school, but it is dealing with many problems at the moment.</p>
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<li>Selectivity is 15% of US News</li>
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<p>And actually, I left most of the schools alone, and Tulane does not deserve to be higher than the UC’s. I love the school, but with a yield rate that will probably be under 15% this year, it will be tough. And, the retention is 88%</p>
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<li>Retention is 20% of US News</li>
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<p>If my rankings were based on absolutely nothing, I would have probably put my school in the top 50. (Pitt)</p>
<p>But as I said, it will be interesting to see what happens.</p>
<p>And lastly, Northeastern will not crack the top 50 for at least 10 years. Don’t know why. It is so underrated.</p>
<p>i think NYU is one of the most overrated schools in the country, everyone just wants to go there because it’s in New York City. Let’s see how many people apply to NYU if it was located in North Dakota haha</p>
<p>pierre0913- Your argument makes absolutely no sense at all. NYU IS NYC. They both live off of each other, and quite frankly, unless you have a basis to say NYU is overrated, don’t say anything. NYU has Stern, Tisch, Courant, and many other program like law and economics that all trump any program in Clemson. You’re a really bad example of someone who goes to Clemson. ( although, who ever said students at Clemson set any type of standard or example??) The fact that you just allege your objective opinions on a public forum as though they are fact exemplifies what type of idiot gets accepted at Clemson. </p>
<p>Honestly, Clemson is just a safety school compared to NYU, just look at the statistics on CB or even on CC. ( Although you never know the truth since Clemson manipulates its test scores and lack integrity as an institution.) Hooray for safety schools!</p>
<p>i agree with pierre about NYU. For a school in what is supposedly the financial and cultural capital of the world, it’s a pathetic #2 to Columbia. It’s about on par with Boston U, and in the Boston/Central Mass. area BU is way down the list, behind Harvard, MIT, Wellesley, Tufts, Brandeis, BC, Olin, Holy Cross, WPI, and maybe even Clark.</p>
<p>well it depends on what you study at NYU, if you study theatre or business, NYU is a great school, if you wanna study engineering then NYU is pathetic. I think NYU is better than BU, probably on par with BC. NYU definitely gets more recognition than BC</p>