Newsweek: "The 25 Most Desirable Large Schools"

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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UNC-Chapel Hill</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>University of Florida</li>
<li>New York University</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UT-Austin</li>
<li>BYU</li>
<li>George Washington</li>
<li>Maryland</li>
<li>Kansas State</li>
<li>Nebraska</li>
<li>Miami</li>
<li>Northeastern</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>Clemson</li>
<li>CUNY-Baruch</li>
<li>Central Arkansas</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>Wisconsin </li>
</ol>

<p>The</a> 25 Most Desirable Large Schools - Newsweek - Education</p>

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<p>Heh…doesn’t Harvard and Penn have the smallest UG pops on that list? By quite a bit I think.</p>

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<p>cutoff must be around 15,000 total undergrad + grad students. Stanford and Harvard both have more graduate students than undergrad, so not sure what’s going on here…</p>

<p><em>edit</em> just looked these four up:</p>

<p>–Stanford 18,000
Harvard 19,000
Penn 19,000
Miami: 15,500</p>

<p>so, don’t know why Penn, Miami and Harvard would make it but Stanford wouldn’t…</p>

<p>Undergrad only:</p>

<p>Harvard 6,700
–Stanford 6,500
Penn 9,700
Miami: 10,400</p>

<p>Based on this, there must be an undergraduate cutoff of 6,600+</p>

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<p>lol ?</p>

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<p>Harvard? Penn?</p>

<p>What is their definition of a large school??? LOL</p>

<p>Those are medium sized schools.</p>

<p>I would say a large school would have at LEAST 15,000 undergrad students. Counting grad/law/med students is a bit silly. Thoughts???</p>

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<p>But I guess a university is made up of more than just its undergrads…</p>

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Well it’s obvious Stanford isn’t that desirable. :D</p>

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<p>All these list are so silly. However, here is another one…</p>

<p>[Harvard</a> University - Newsweek - Education](<a href=“http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/the-25-most-desirable-schools/harvard-university.html]Harvard”>http://education.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/the-25-most-desirable-schools/harvard-university.html)</p>

<p>The 25 Most Desirable Schools</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>Princeton University</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>Cooper Union</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>United States Naval Academy

<ol>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Pomona College</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>United States Air Force Academy</li>
<li>United States Military Academy</li>
<li>Williams College</li>
<li>Amherst College</li>
<li>Bowdoin College</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna College</li>
<li>Swarthmore College</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
<li>Middlebury College</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>

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<p>Newsweek is still in business??</p>

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<p>LOL. </p>

<p>Harvard had 19,411 students total (undergrad & grad) in 2009, according to US News. Penn had 19,311. Stanford had “only” 18,494. So my first thought was, maybe a “large” school is one with 19,000 or more students total. But some others with larger total student bodies don’t make the “most desirable large schools” list, including Columbia (24,230) and Johns Hopkins (20,483). Northwestern (18,834) would be close to that cut-off but also doesn’t make the list. Then I thought it must be based on number of undergrads.</p>

<p>Let’s see: Stanford has 6,602 undergrads. Harvard has 6,655. Penn has 9,768. so it would seem the cut-off is somewhere between 6,602 (Stanford) and 6,655 (Harvard). But Columbia, which doesn’t make the list, has 7,743—a bigger undergrad population than Harvard, which does make the list. OK, I’m stumped; just what IS the cut-off? Or did they just figure no ranking is credible unless Harvard comes out on top, even if it’s a ranking if “large schools”?</p>

<p>Note that Northwestern and Johns Hopkins didn’t make Newsweek’s “most desirable regardless of size” list, either. Nor did, among perennial US News/CC faves, Chicago, Wash U, Vanderbilt, Georgetown. And Duke is pretty far down the list, behind Notre Dame, Bowdoin, and all thee major service academies. LOL. We’re sure to hear screams that this list is “not credible” from Dookies, among others.</p>

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<p>USC is more desirable than Berkeley and UCLA? Please.</p>

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<p>any ranking where USC was ranked higher than Berkeley is bogus.</p>

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<p>WOOHOO CLEMSON! haha</p>