Papa Chicken post on cc "popularity" and forum views...

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<p>Another silly ranking: the "CC Popularity Index" </p>

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<p>Worth very little, but fun to put together.....seeing how many VIEWS different Ivies receive here on CC, I started looking to see if some other popular colleges also were viewed with similar volume. However, after I perused a few others, I realized that some of the big state schools must get many views just because they are big and vice-versa. So I built a spreadsheet listing all of CC's colleges (Ivies, LACs, all others), their corresponding # of VIEWS for the past month, and their full-time undergraduate enrollment from the 2005 US News best colleges, then normalized the number of views by enrollment. The resulting "CC Popularity Index" is calculated by dividing # of Views per month by enrollment. Ranked in order of descending index, here are the top 50:</p>

<p>Rank/ School/ Views per full-time undergrad per month
1 / PRINCETON / 8.17
2 / YALE / 4.77
3 / DARTMOUTH / 3.36
4 / HARVARD / 3.12
5 / COLUMBIA / 3.09
6 / MIT / 2.79
7 / CALTECH / 2.75
8 / BROWN / 2.51
9 / PENN / 2.32
10 / U CHICAGO / 1.96
11 / RICE / 1.90
12 / STANFORD / 1.83
13 / CORNELL / 1.83
14 / SWARTHMORE / 1.69
15 / WILLIAMS / 1.40
16 / GEORGETOWN / 1.36
17 / DUKE / 1.26
18 / AMHERST / 0.90
19 / JHU / 0.83
20 / NORTHWESTERN / 0.75
21 / POMONA / 0.71
22 / WASHINGTON U / 0.62
23 / WELLESLEY / 0.57
24 / Carn Mellon / 0.54
25 / W&L / 0.53
26 / TUFTS / 0.53
27 / BARNARD / 0.52
28 / EMORY / 0.52
29 / HAVERFORD / 0.52
30 / NYU / 0.51
31 / CLAREMONT MCK / 0.50
32 / UC BERKELEY / 0.46
33 / MIDDLEBURY / 0.46
34 / KENYON / 0.46
35 / SMITH / 0.46
36 / BRYN MAWR / 0.42
37 / VASSAR / 0.41
38 / BOWDOIN / 0.39
39 / USC / 0.38
40 / UCLA / 0.35
41 / WESLEYAN / 0.33
42 / CARLETON / 0.31
43 / UVA / 0.30
44 / U MICHIGAN / 0.28
45 / TULANE / 0.26
46 / HARVEY MUDD / 0.24
47 / CASE WESTERN / 0.24
48 / GRINNELL / 0.23
49 / COLGATE / 0.22
50 / BRANDEIS / 0.22</p>

<p>No big surprises, especially at the top end</p>

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<p>(A unique feature of the Ivy section)</p>

<p>You know, those safe little retreats where the newly admitted are invited to gather in private to congratulate themselves on their brilliant achievement?</p>

<p>School: Threads: Posts:</p>

<p>Princeton.. 92 .. 1,914
Cornell .... 25 .... 231
Brown ..... 20 .... 265
Yale ....... 20 .... 261
Dartmouth 15 .... 193
Penn ...... 12 .... 137
Columbia .. 10 .... 98
Harvard ..... 3 .... 33</p>

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<p>
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You know, those safe little retreats where the newly admitted are invited to gather in private to congratulate themselves on their brilliant achievement?

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<p>Or, you know, to meet each other, find out invaluable information about what we're getting into next year, and find out when people are getting mailings so we don' fall behind ;)</p>

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<p>Phil why waste time on all that when we can spend it on being self congratulatory? :D</p>

<p>But I think there's a Harvard '09 Yahoo group somewhere which is pretty much planning to take over the world :p</p>

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<p>Is there no Princeton Yahoo group?</p>

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<p>It's on file but we don't have any immediate plans for world domination :p</p>

<p>Personally I find the CC subforum a better resource :)</p>

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<p>Plus you have the comforting presence of Alumother!</p>

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<p><em>relapses into stunned silence</em></p>

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<p>Jeez, Princeton board is definitely the cool place to be, I guess. I've always enjoyed checking it out, and all you cool Princeton people almost made me apply, even though I knew virtually nothing about the place.</p>

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<p>Would you have picked Princeton over Brown if you'd gotten in?</p>

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<p>Byerly: can you post your stats and the reason that got you in to Harvard?</p>

<p>I am beginning to wonder if they made a mistake or am wondering if you forgot to take your medication today.</p>

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<p>byerly: I have no idea. I really don't know much about Princeton except its general greatness of reputation. I never even visited. One of my favorite things about Brown though was the open curriculum, which Princeton doesn't have. So I don't know. I would have given it a hell of a look though.</p>

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<p>"The comforting presence of Alumother"?</p>

<p><em>screams with laughter in her kitchen and has to explain to her family it was nothing important at all, nothing at all</em></p>

<p>Honey, did you really mean to use the word ghetto in this context?</p>

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<p>I think its appropriate, don't you, honey? Albeit of the upscale variety!</p>

<p>"...a special space for those CC members who plan to attend Princeton in 2009!"</p>

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<p>i am beginning to think tht byerly dont go to Harvard at all....maybe he is a yalie and this is like one of those practical jokes that yale plays on Harvard....if it is...hats off to Yale...they have surely turned a lot of ppl against their rivals...;)</p>