<p>I said except for the Ivy league states. Because Boston > you</p>
<p>Whatâs wrong with her? She looks pretty cute.</p>
<p>Wall street? You mean the same wall street that has bankrupted this country? Founded and destroyed in the snow hahah</p>
<p>I think we all just need to ignore Lonesoul and OCELITE</p>
<p>The Directors Cup, as stated earlier, is a poor representation of a schools athletics. The top sports are mens basketball and football. These should not be weighted equally with squash or womens tennis. I realize some may enjoy these sports more, but that is a small minority.</p>
<p>Also, Duke, Virginia, Stanford are all great schools. But I still do not live by the USNWR rankings like everyone on CC seems to be. Schools know that these rankings, for some reason, dictate a lot of high schoolers and and where they apply. For this reason, many schools play the rankings game so they can artificially move up and down on the list.</p>
<p>Move up only, not down. Thatâs stupid.</p>
<p>My dream of a basketball state title was a failure, I guess I canât move to cali :/</p>
<p>^^ dude, you arenât going to get into any good schools, your stats are horrendous. Just stop dreaming and go to a school you have a 50% chance at, like Michigan (where dreams come to die) hahahahahhahahahaha!!!11!one!1</p>
<p>Duck, you donât like the harsh truth that Michigan isnât as good of a school as you think thatâs why you go and talk trash about the USNWR rankings. And schools that donât play the rankings game is because they canât compete. Itâs like how MLB teams crying about how the Yankees buy championships. They spent the time and money to build that empire, your fault you didnât. But if you collectively look at all the rankings, you will see thatâs it pretty accurate.</p>
<p>Hahaha alright horrendous really? I never said they were good but Iâm pretty sure theyâre better than about 70% of everyone else.</p>
<p>Like I said CGeresti we need to on this thread ignore â â â â â â and the like.</p>
<p>I think lonesoulâs just spazzing b/c Mich has a billion bucks more than the entire UC system.</p>
<p>good luck w/ scheduling classes.</p>
<p>^^ yet Michigan falls below both Cal and UCLA in rankings. rofl, have fun with bigger class sizes, bigger student body, and 4th best public education from having 50% acceptance rate. Worst of all, having to live in Michigan hahahah</p>
<p>Go Wolverines?? Rawr! or it is Snarf? Not too sure what noise a baby raccoon makes.</p>
<p>yes, in one of the most critiqued, flawed, and controversial ranking ever devised. lol do you think rice or vanderbilt is better than berkeley?<br>
itâs as arbitrary as me citing [Worldâs</a> Best Universities: US News and World Report](<a href=âhttp://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities/articles/2010/09/21/worlds-best-universities-top-400-]Worldâsâ>http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities/articles/2010/09/21/worlds-best-universities-top-400-)</p>
<p>Iâve mentioned it before, I said collectively the rankings are somewhat accurate because many different sources usually come to the same conclusion, even with different methodologies. Combined and collectively, it gives a true description. Iâm a rankings whore, and I hate it, but it definitely determined which schools I applied for undergrad and grad, because I know MANY people follow it to the T. Donât hate the game, hate the rules.</p>
<p>You must have had a pretty bad social life if you think Cal / UCLA is a âcompleteâ experience.</p>
<p>Do you really want to be sucked in to a 24/7 study culture?!</p>
<p>The greek life sucks, the parties are non existant (well maybe there are some video game parties), the campus spirit is abysmal (compared to Michigan / Texas ) , and of course the girls are average.</p>
<p>But hey, the typical CC user is not even close to the typical American college student.</p>
<p>Saying Michigan or Texas is a crappy school is plain â â â â â â â â . If you pick the right major, get decent grades, and socially competent, you will find a decent job out of a âtop tierâ state school.</p>
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<p>What year are you living in? 1992? </p>
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<p>Garbage state? Weâre diverse and full of culture and the home to many of the countryâs largest industries. Iâd think a garbage state would be some ass-backwards armpit where everyone thinks the Earth was made in 7 days and Jesus rode dinosaurs and that women should stay indoors and reproduce. </p>
<p>And, everyone I know from Texas moved out to LA because there are no jobs in Texas! Too many young kids moving there, oversaturated market.</p>
<p>dammitsam, you speak from experience of course when you talk about Cal/UCLA correct? Being an alumni or current student to make statements that sound like facts. </p>
<p>People are more proud that they attend Cal/UCLA for the academics, not because of itâs Division 1 sports, which is what you feel campus âspiritâ is. </p>
<p>But then again, I canât take anything anyone who attends Indiana University seriously. Because they couldnât take themselves seriously to actually attend that school haha. â â â â â fed.</p>
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<p>Cool, if weâre going based on broad generalizations, Iâd much rather live in an ass-backwards place like you described than a suburb of Mexico where the women are so liberal that they believe that hairy legs empower them, where success is viewed as something to be punished, and where the only thing hotter than the summer heat are the fires burning from the most recent round of race riots.</p>
<p>Again your nerd vision is clouding your judgement. Is this thread about the most âacademic schoolâ? No, this thread is what is the most complete university. I have many friends who went to the UCLA / Cal. They describe the social life there as âawfulâ. When I hear about their âpartiesâ makes me cringe and laugh at the same time. Its like high school bad over there.</p>
<p>And for your information I got into Texas. Sadly, Texasâs business school in state runs all on rank (when you go to a top public school, not easy to be in the top 5% of your class).</p>
<p>I did not apply to a single private university since it is prohibitively expensive.</p>
<p>Not everyone can be mommyâs little boy. Some people have to take financial considerations into account. </p>
<p>Yes, I loved my experience at Indiana. Tenth ranked business school with a nice scholarship in tow, had a great time with the Greek life, the house parties were pretty good when I was a freshman, I studied hard and partied hard, and the athletics was amazing. Now I have nice job offer in hand, ready to start working in September.</p>
<p>In a nutshell: Great professors, amazing career services and business school, best years of my life (so far), most attractive girls Iâve ever had âfunâ with, and an amazing party scene. Most importantly, I am not in much debt. Howâs the recent tuition hike treating you in California, hey maybe they can use that money to give more handouts or tax credits for those smug prius drivers.</p>
<p>Then again, I ainât naive. IU besides its business school and music school is not very good academically.</p>
<p>Which is why Texas is the undisputed champ.</p>
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<p>People are forgetting this . . . this is why Stanford, etc., shouldnât be in the discussion for âmost complete universityâ. </p>
<p>This is my bazillionth anti-Stanford post in this thread.</p>