<p>Well, I was wondering what you guys thought the new undergraduate national college rankings would be for 2010. I know they don't come out until August, so now is the perfect time to predict! Here are my predictions:</p>
<p>1) NYU, Tufts, and Wake Forest will take top 30
2) Duke out of top ten
3) Princeton OR Yale gets #1 spot
4) I think Vandy and Notre Dame are out of top 20</p>
<p>List all of your predictions!</p>
<p>cornell will move up, upenn down. brown up a spot. princeton at #1</p>
<p>Columbia and U Chicago tied, but one spot higher than previously.</p>
<p>Yale will be ranked 145, Harvard will be ranked 185, and Princeton will be ranked 234. </p>
<p>Georgia Tech will be number one, followed by Wright State University at number two.</p>
<p>Since Vandy went no-loan, it’s apps (and test scores) skyrocketed. It’ll move up.</p>
<p>gryffon just because you are going to yale
does not mean
its better than
princeton</p>
<p>I hope Dartmouth moves up to at least 10, so it is officially is in the top 10.</p>
<p>i hope tufts gets some of the respect it deserves. its sad and unfair that its reputation/ranking haven’t caught up with its admissions standards.</p>
<p>Brown is underranked in my opinion.</p>
<p>[Criticism</a> of College Rankings - September 23, 1996](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/961206gcfallow.html]Criticism”>Criticism of College Rankings - September 23, 1996)</p>
<p>USNWR sucks.</p>
<p>That is a really old letter and I think in response to a particular year when they changed the ranking formulas drastically.</p>
<p>I hope NYU moves up. I would like to see it break 30 this year.</p>
<p>I bet UChicago moves up because Obama taught there. That’s how shallow those rankings are. But yeah, that’s what I think will happen.</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ Haha and he attended Columbia, so my predictions are holding up so far ;)</p>
<p>Very little change in USNWR rankings. The 2010 rankings will be based on Fall 2008 entering class admissions data, i.e., kids who applied in late 2007, were accepted in early Spring 2008, and for the most part decided by May 2008—all well before the current recession hit. College endowment asset valuations, spending per student, average class size, student-faculty ratio, etc., also will be based mainly or exclusively on pre-recession data. Looking to USNWR to decipher where colleges stack up against each other is like driving by looking in the rear-view mirror: it tells you where you just were, not where you are now, and certainly not where you’re going. In college selection, that approach may work fairly well in times of relative stability as these things usually tend to change slowly. In times of wrenching economic change of the kind many families and most colleges have undergone in the past 9 months, it’s at best woefully incomplete, at worst badly misleading.</p>
<p>When do they even come out?</p>
<p>^^mid-August</p>
<p>USNWR is such a narrow perception of universities.</p>
<p>Rice will be #1 with MIT a close second. Everyone else ties for last.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
</ol>
<p>lol</p>