<p>Table 3
A Revealed Preference Ranking of Colleges
rank College Name Elo pts
1 Harvard 2800
2 Yale 2738
3 Stanford 2694
4 Cal Tech 2632
5 MIT 2624
6 Princeton 2608
7 Brown 2433
8 Columbia 2392
9 Amherst 2363
10 Dartmouth 2357
11 Wellesley 2346
12 U Penn 2325
13 U Notre Dame 2279
14 Swarthmore 2270
15 Cornell 2236
16 Georgetown 2218
17 Rice 2214
18 Williams 2213
19 Duke 2209
20 U Virginia 2197
21 Northwestern 2136
22 Pomona 2132
23 Berkeley 2115
24 Georgia Tech 2115
25 Middlebury 2114
26 Wesleyan 2111
27 U Chicago 2104
28 Johns Hopkins 2096</p>
<p>WUSTL is not on there? Interesting...</p>
<p>61 Emory 1888
62 Washington U 1887
63 Occidental 1883
64 Bryn Mawr 1871</p>
<p>i'd say the rankings seem quite accurate, except for Notre Dame's place. I would also create a separate list for all of the LACs.</p>
<p>Whatever our individual takes on this ranking, it is the only one that scientifically reflects what actual students do when they have the choice, and, as far as I know, the only one that includes both the universities and the LACs (which, it seems to me, don't do that badly). Obviously, for yourself, if you are not interested in Institutes of Technology or are only interested in LACs, you can ignore the irrelevant schools.</p>
<p>it's so subjective...princeton's below caltech? really? </p>
<p>And who CARES about the ranking? It's not about going to the best school, it's about going to the best school for you. </p>
<p>And Daderoo, what do you have against duke?</p>
<p>i think the order is probably pretty regional, as reflected by this thread
in the northeast and midatlantic it's definitely</p>
<p>brown
dartmouth
duke</p>
<p>in the south, duke may be higher
in hanover, NH, dartmouth may be higher (j/k)</p>
<p>
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Anybody want to place JHU, Chicago, Rice, Northwestern or WUStL in relation to these three?
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</p>
<p>Prestige:
Brown
Dartmouth
Northwestern
Chicago
JHU
Rice & WUStL</p>
<p>Quality of Education:
Chicago
Dartmouth
Brown
Rice
JHU
Northwestern
WUStL</p>
<p>I did not include Duke because I tried to remain subjective. My quality of education favored the LAC-like schools.</p>
<p>"And Daderoo, what do you have against duke?"</p>
<p>To the extent we are discussing personal preferences, my problems with Duke include too much emphasis on basketball, fraternities and binge drinking, and lack of proximiity to a hub airport. My favorable impressions include good weather, a reasonably good academic atmosphere, at least for that region of the county, and disproportionately hot girls (among reasonably good schools). Of course, I could be mistaken as to any of these.</p>
<p>warblersrule86: I am impressed with the quality of your impartial analysis, except that, at least among those who really matter, I would expect Chicago to rank quite a bit higher in prestige than Northwestern.</p>
<p>Top 30:</p>
<p>1 Harvard
2 Cal Tech
3 Yale
4 MIT
5 Stanford
6 Princeton
7 Brown
8 Columbia
9 Amherst
10 Dartmouth
11 Wellesley
12 Penn
13 Notre Dame
14 Swarthmore
15 Cornell
16 Georgetown
17 Rice
18 Williams
19 Duke
20 UVa
21 Brigham Young
22 Wesleyan
23 Northwestern
24 Pomona
25 Georgia Tech
26 Middlebury
27 Berkeley
28 Chicago
29 JHU
30 USC</p>
<p>"i'd say the rankings seem quite accurate, except for Notre Dame's place."</p>
<p>This is a preference poll, not a true quality poll. If your family is paying for it and thinks that God smiles on Notre Dame, the facts don't much matter. (Likewise if your grandmother has never heard of any school except Harvard).</p>
<p>
Oops! I meant objective. Oh, well. :o </p>
<p>Daderoo, when I rank prestige, I do so based on the average person. For employers or more educated circles, then yes, my ranking would change.</p>
<p>"Oops! I meant objective". We are not here to correct typos, and so gave you credit for that.</p>
<p>Warblersrule86: I wanted my son to apply to Duke, or at least to be broad-minded as to the region, and he did attend the regional presentation, without actually applying in the last instance. Hard to say whether he made a mistake.</p>
<p>hmm..........</p>
<p>wow these are like my 3 favorite schools right now. I suppose I won't have to rank them, as I either will be accepted to 0 or at most 1. :)</p>
<p>BTW Stambliark, these were my top three too and I luckily got into them. All are simply awesome. Choosing was the hardest choice I have had to make. I ended up choosing Dartmouth, but it could have easily been Brown or Duke.</p>
<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>Quality:
1) DUKE!!! I love Duke
2) Brown
3) Dartmouth</p>
<p>Prestige: (Who gives a ****?)
1) Brown
2) Duke
3) Dartmouth</p>
<p>Brody Prestige Rankings (<a href="http://brody.com/college/resources/college_rankings.php%5B/url%5D">http://brody.com/college/resources/college_rankings.php</a>)</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Yale </li>
<li>Stanford </li>
<li>Dartmouth </li>
<li>MIT </li>
<li>Amherst </li>
<li>Williams </li>
<li>Columbia University </li>
<li>California Institute of Technology </li>
<li>Brown </li>
<li>Duke </li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania </li>
<li>University of Chicago </li>
<li>Swarthmore </li>
<li>Northwestern University </li>
<li>Cornell University </li>
<li>Johns Hopkins </li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley </li>
<li>Bowdoin </li>
<li>Georgetown </li>
<li>Harvey Mudd<br></li>
<li>University of Michigan</li>
</ol>