<p>Right. Keep in mind, the US News does not use current data. Plus, just about every school's selectivity improved as there were more applicants in general.</p>
<p>I say 10...idc though, I love Cornell regardless</p>
<p>"the reason why we are kept out of top ten year after year is student teacher ratio..its a fact."</p>
<p>So is Cornell planning on doing anything about it?</p>
<p>Yes. They are building more dorms so that they can admit even more people.</p>
<p>Aren't those west campus dorms though...as in for upperclassmen. Wouldn't that just bring collegetown rents down a little and centralize campus more? Or if not centralize, create a more unified upperclassmen community?</p>
<p>Actually kind of hoping it will fall a little so that not as many students apply and thereby my application will stand a better chance.</p>
<p>Just theorizing, but it could help with graduation/retention rates, alumni giving (in the very long run), etc... Could also hurt selectivity as transfers may increase. As long as North Campus doesn't expand too much, it doesn't seem as though the class size could grow by a lot...</p>
<h1>12 we're moving up lol</h1>
<p>Is that a guess or is that confirmed?</p>
<p>The main thing that hurts cornell is its large size. This hurts us in a number of categories, including selectivity (because the acceptance rate is higher), student/faculty ratio, and number of students per class. It also indirectly hurts Cornell's average SAT, grad and retention rates, and percentage in top tenth because smaller schools get rid of the "lower half" by selecting a smaller number from their applicant pool. All of the aforementioned things, in my opinion, are related to the school size in some way, but Cornell can go up in ranking nonetheless by countering the school's size with other things.</p>
<p>increase the number of teaching professors.</p>
<p>Heit is, would look like this:</p>
<p>har
yale
PP
Duke/sf
mit/cit
col/brown
nwu/stlwashu/dmouth
Cornell/chicaco
gtown/jhu
rice/emory
ucb/vanderbilt
um/notredame</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li> Harvard, Yale</li>
<li> Duke </li>
<li> Penn, MIT, Stanford</li>
<li> Brown Cal Tech</li>
<li> Columbia, </li>
<li>Northwestern, WashU</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Rice, JHU, Chicago</li>
<li>Vandy</li>
<li>Cornell, Notre Dame, </li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li> Emory</li>
<li>CMU, UMich, UVa</li>
<li>Georgetown, UCLA</li>
</ol>
<p>That ranking doesn't make sense numerically....and I see your Brown bias...</p>
<p>I hope this doesn't sound bad...but Cornell's rankings would probably go up if it completely got rid of the ILR and Human Ecology colleges, yes?</p>
<p>no, that is stupid comment, probably hotel school, if anything. Second, i heard they are dropping acceptance rate from this year's rankings becuase of schools like Wash U that try to manipulate it..is that true, and if so, you will def see schools like WUSTL drop substantially</p>
<p>who the hell is this otis guy, that is the worst rankings I have ever seen</p>
<p>check out this guy Otis's posts, in one post he is a father, and another one he is waiting to hear from brown, richmond and colgate, what an idiot</p>
<p>Like I said...Brown bias...I don't see a school that hasn't had anything significant happen jump up 5 spots...unless a Brown alum suddenly became some sort of executive at USNews...</p>
<p>relax sports684. take a deep breath. it's OKAY.</p>