<p>Any comments on the new survey results?</p>
<p>Is there a link to the list?</p>
<p>Right link but title doesn’t seem to be accurate.
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<p>Yeah I have an opinion … but I’m not sharing it. GRRRRR!!!</p>
<p>We used the Princeton Review book for rough screening. Frat dominated … out. Rural surrounded by corn fields … out (might as well be at the relatives!). Smart kids who don’t make a big deal of it … in. Lots of merit aid available … IN!</p>
<p>Why 371? I’ve always wondered that…</p>
<p>Hmm. No UC Irvine?</p>
<p>there are some schools that refuse to participate in PR’s survey (like URochester and UC-Irvine)</p>
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<p>Because it’s the sum of seven consecutive prime numbers.</p>
<p>^^University of Rochester is on there.</p>
<p>A nice quick source of basic info on most of the upper tiers of schools, the list is useful as a starting point for good students- a one page comprehensive list. I noticed it did not include most schools in my state, the 371 # probably represents some cutoff point. Like all rankings it has uses, especially for discovering schools one would never otherwise have heard of but that may be equal to those closer to home.</p>
<p>The number has varied over the years. It’s arbitrary.</p>
<p>Mission creep. It was 345 in 2003 and 351 in 2004. It was somewhere in the 330’s (331?) when I first encountered it. Wherever you draw a line, someone is going to complain about just missing the cut. Hence, when the human race has spread through the galaxy, PR will be “publishing” THE BEST 4,381,296 COLLEGES, much to the disgust of adherents of Gamfoomblian College, an XAC that didn’t make the cut. </p>
<p>(I put “publish” in quotes because the information will be distibuted via waves of tachyons making use of the properties of quark-quark interfaces incorporated in nanomachines embedded in our cerebral cortexes…you can think of it as great-descendant of the Kindle implanted in your brain.)</p>
<p>I’ll have to say I like it because my new transfer school is on it, while my old school is not. :)</p>
<p>For 2009, it was 368 colleges.</p>
<p>oh wow they put URochester back on the list</p>
<p>2009 Edition says ‘368 Colleges’…what are the 3 new ones or changes?</p>
<p>The link given lists the three new ones. I can’t remember all three of them, but one was U of Rochester.</p>
<p>So much for the sum of the prime numbers! I still think 386 is a random number of schools. Why not 400? or 300?</p>
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<p>PR, 2010 edition is best 371 colleges… add 47 49 51 53 55 57 59</p>
<p>368 was derived by multiplying 5 primes. :)</p>
<p>Angelo State University and Green Mountain College are new additions to this book and University of Rochester would make the third. I looked at the new edition in the book store, but did not purchase it.</p>