Predictions for US News Ranking...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>3-way ties are ugly. I'd like to see Cornell at 11 next year.</p>

62

<p>Gee, it would be nice if we could surpass everyone...</p>

63

<p>If you guys haven't seen them yet, apparently, the 2006 rankings have been "leaked" and are on the Princeton board...</p>

64

<p>I like 13 better than 14. I hope that's genuine.</p>

<p>What kind of rationale would place MIT lower than Duke, anyway? Does anyone actually believe that?</p>

65

<p>Duke could be a more comprehensive university?</p>

<p>Or maybe its students get higher verbal scores? iono</p>

66

<p>errr I think it has something weird to do with alumni changes in rates of giving or something. Maybe class sizes? I think MIT kids have higher verbal scores than Duke kids anyways lol, (75% are 750 for Duke and 760 for MIT, while Duke's Math is 780 and MIT's is perfect).</p>

<p>I'm fairly sure MIT is better than Duke in endowment though, because its like the center of American technology and science.</p>

<p>but yeah, the US News issue was sold early in some places so people psoted it</p>

67

<p>MIT does, in fact, have a larger endowment. Duke's endowment is around 4-5 billion and MIT's hovers around 5-6 billion. Duke's endowment is on the lower half of 4 billion by the way.</p>

68

<p>The Cornell Board posters are of a different breed...</p>

<p>lol @ bball</p>

69

<p>well the real deal is out now...go to usnews and observe, or pick one up on a newsstand in a couple days.</p>

70

<h1>13, but there is no #14,so really no net change</h1>

71

<p>thats a dumb comment of course there was change, we moved ahead of brown and chicago, thats a change</p>

72

<p>No. Not that much anyway.</p>

73

<p>Stop being an inflammatory moron, for once.</p>

74

<p>how could duke be ranked higher than stanford. Seriously now.</p>

75

<p>How could penn be ranked above mit and stanford?</p>

76

<p>LOL duke isn't ranked higher than Stanford. I don't even think it should be tied with Stanford or...even worse...ranked higher than MIT/CIT. Duke, Penn, Cornell, Uchic, JHU, Umich, UCB, Columbia (maybe Columbia is better), Dartmouth, etc are all in the same league but not quite in Stanford/MIT's league.</p>

77

<p>I concur, DMC ---There is only one group of Top 5: HYPSM -- There's no D there.</p>