<p>Didn't Newsweek do the new ivies thing last year? <em>sigh</em> another magazine that could be doing far more important things is trying to make a buck on the interest in colleges.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting. I'm interested in seeing what they have to say...</p>
<p>unalove--Thanks for posting that! :)</p>
<p>Do you guys think that Cornell is the Hottest Ivy? It was Yale last year, right?</p>
<p>Ehh..I would have guessed Columbia. Didn't their number of applicants sky-rocket last year?</p>
<p>Hottest for Sports Fans
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. </p>
<p>Winning the national football championship, as well as two consecutive basketball titles, is clearly a draw. Applications to Gatorland are up 15 percent in the last two years, nearly twice the national average. But high-school counselors are discovering it has more to offer its 35,000 undergraduates than just a great excuse to hit the sports bars. The university attracts more students from the International Baccalaureate program—the most challenging courses in American high schools—than any other college. The average Gator freshman had a 3.99 GPA in high school. Freshman Robin Prywes, a Maryland resident, says the only thing those sports championships taught her was that Florida had great school spirit. She says she liked the school's "academic reputation, student involvement, great weather and friendly atmosphere." But her mother says it was mostly the weather.</p>
<p>I think Newsweek is trying to make news where there isn't any. There's no particular reason why Georgetown was named the hottest big-city school this year and not, say, Macalester or why SUNY New Paltz was the hottest small state school and not New College of Florida or the Evergreen State College.</p>
<p>However, I do commend it by bringing some lesser-known schools to light and looking beyond its competitor's totem pole system. By using different criteria in choosing colleges, a whole host of schools, some more selective than others, come to light in a positive way (UF as one example).</p>
<p>^Yes, that is a good function of these things. I've never heard of several of those schools and it is nice to see some other great colleges get recognition.</p>
<p>I'm glad you posted this because I love seeing colleges like Fordham, NMex IT and Wisconsin get some love as well as the big names. Interesting how they managed to get H and P in there anyway (wasn't H a hottest for rejecting you last year?) </p>
<p>Face it, big media is big business and they need to make a profit. They have perfect timing, obviously, in stealing the spotlight from USNWR's special edition.</p>
<p>Hottest for Rejecting You
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.</p>
<p>that made me laugh</p>
<p>Hottest for Business
Babson College, Babson Park, Mass.</p>
<p>Just as violinists know why they're at Juilliard, and physicists at Caltech, the 1,700 students attending Babson understand what made them choose this small campus. They are entrepreneurs, and no school does a better job than Babson in teaching how to start businesses. Jason Reuben grew up in Los Angeles and by fourth grade was selling ketchup packets at his elementary school's Friday barbecues. He started a Web design firm in high school. He knew Babson was for him when, during a campus visit, he saw all the people in one lecture hall pull out their laptops to look up business data.</p>
<p>Not UPenn?!?</p>
<p>Finally a little UW love. Long overdue.</p>
<p>hahahahaha, "Hottest for Rejecting You"</p>
<p>I don't agree with all of those, but interesting article nonetheless.</p>
<p>Newsweek deliberately went for off-the-beaten-path choices. Otherwise, we'd have Columbia as the hottest in a big city, Gtown or ND as the hottest religious school, Wharton for business, etc. etc. Newsweek is not going to sell if it publishes things that they feel people already know.</p>
<p>("Hey look, everybody, Harvard is a good school!")</p>
<p>What makes USNWR so much fun is watching the standings and rooting for your schools. I work in a bookstore-- I see many, many, many people, most of them NOT collegebound students nor parents of collegebound students, shelling out the $8.95 for the "special edition," and I see even more who pick it up, briefly consider where their alma mater has placed, and put it down again. People care about silly things like this.</p>
<p>I found Newsweek's other online articles in its "college edition" pretty worthless. I happen to like Bruce Poch (dean of admissions for Pomona College) a lot and I like what I've read about him, but his piece seemed rather generic. I also found the "follow your heart, not your parents" father/daughter column no more inspiring or helpful than what I've read on these boards.</p>
<p>FWIW, I think the "New Ivies" list from last year is a better researched and better curated list.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. And well said, unalove!</p>
<p>"Newsweek deliberately went for off-the-beaten-path choices. Otherwise, we'd have Columbia as the hottest in a big city, Gtown or ND as the hottest religious school, Wharton for business, etc. etc. Newsweek is not going to sell if it publishes things that they feel people already know."</p>
<p>In the past 2 years, Fordham applicant pool has went up from 14,000 to 22,000, the average SAT has went up around 40 points, and the acceptance rate has gone down from 50% to 41%. </p>
<p>I'd say Fordham can be considered pretty "hot"</p>
<p>Hottest for Saving America's Schools
University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas</p>
<p>I think that many of the Texas high school seniors who have been rejected as a result of the "Top 10%" mandate may take issue with that assessment.</p>
<p>What is Babson anyways...</p>
<p>Hottest for Liberal Arts is Princeton? Does that even make sense?</p>