It showed up on my newsfeed today, bills itself as the “Rotten Tomatoes of college rankings”, I find it refreshing.
Top 10
1- Harvard
2- Stanford
3- MIT
4- Amherst
5- Yale
6- Pomona
7- Williams
8- Bowdoin
8- Princeton
10- Claremont Mckenna
Note that Yale and Pomona are actually tied at 5th.
They should just call this the Best Small Private Schools list.
This looks to be a consensus based on people looking at other polls.
Wow, I was just thinking this morning, “If only we had one more college ranking list!” Dreams do come true!
Umm…
According to this UGA & Texas Lutheran > Carnegie Mellon…
And Carnegie Mellon isn’t even in the Top 100…
This is supposed to be the average of other rankings. Exactly what multiple rankings have CMU outside the top 50 much less the top 100?
@Greymeer Carnegie Mellon is ranked 42nd. Still a surprisingly low rank.
^ #130 on my device right below… #129 Drake.
This one has ND in front of Duke so clearly this one is right. Go Irish! ;
Oh my, all the kids (including my own) have been applying to UT Austin when instead they should be lining up for Texas Lutheran and now we know CMU is not as good as its cracked up to be.
Wait for it. USC defenders are lining up with pitchforks. :))
It looks like it was done by a Providence College grad.
Carnegie Mellon appears at 131, tied with five other schools, so in the top 136 in this ranking.
Carnegie Mellon is at #42 (tied with 1 other school) among the national research universities, which places it at #131 (tied with 5 others) among all schools, a list that includes LACs.
My guess is that giving equal weight to student scores gives an edge to LACs, which may have more satisfied students. (12 of top 20 are LACs).
This does not explain how their non-student scores are often higher for a few schools like Providence or Cottey than for schools like Rice or UVA (among others).
The overall concept of this could be good. I think rankings are useful for giving a sense of overall reputation, likely selectivity, and just reminding you a school exists. And adding more student input than rankings usually do could be good. But you have to wonder how they get some of these results.
This organization did not list the distribution requirements correctly for Williams in their blurb about it. Interesting. Nice that Williams gets a high ranking by yet another organization, but I am not sure how useful this will be for prospective students if the college info on colleges is incorrect!
And I sigh a huge sigh of relief that my family is past this insanity. My dear sister is going thru it now with my niece. Breath in, breath out. Even if you go to a triple digit ranked school, chances are you life will be just fine.
This is so funny, someone putting a list together and forgetting about some schools along the way.
I guarantee you 99% of HS kid’s wouldn’t be able to name the location of 2/3 of the schools listed. It’s just way too LAC-biased.
This “new kid” needs to take his toys and go home.
Looks like Carnegie Mellon was pushed down by publishers consensus only on the overall list. On most lists CMU ranks somewhere in the 25 to 50 range so 42 on the national research is within range there. Combining Nationals with LACs is where things get a little messy as some of the factors that push nationals up have little to do with the undergraduate experience (or student consensus). I think they need to iron out some things with this list but that it is also a step in the right direction.