<p>ok i'm usually very tolerant but THIS IS CRAZY!!!
You know only if the world was this simple. Everything decided by one factor, but it's not; there a complex factors involved and SO SHOULD YOUR COLLEGE LIST!!!</p>
<p>Slipper, ur ignorant. Tell me why Cornell in the sciences should be higher, but in places like Classics, English, Poly Sci, Cornell is ranked higher than most of those places.</p>
<p>Wow some people need to chill out. I posted a simple thread just to hear what others thought. Nowhere did I say I was basing my decisions off this list. Nowhere did I say it was an exact science that could be decided with schools listed in order. I acknowledge that some departments are stronger than others. For all you who say this thread is pointless, don't read it. No one is forcing you to click it but you obviously did. Maybe I think your thread is pointless. If you got on every single person who did not specifically post "What are my chances?" then maybe I'd listen to you.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
</ol>
<p>How would you re-rank the U.S. NEWS top (20) universities for 2006 ....their list is...</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard<br>
(2). Princeton<br></li>
<li>Yale.<br></li>
<li>UPenn<br></li>
<li>Duke<br>
(6). Stanford<br></li>
<li>Cal Tech<br>
(8). MIT<br></li>
<li>Columbia<br>
(10). Dartsmouth<br></li>
<li>Wash U.<br></li>
<li>Northwestern<br></li>
<li>Cornell<br>
(14). John Hopkins</li>
<li>Brown
(16). UChicago</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Notre Dame
(19). Vandy</li>
<li>Emory</li>
</ol>
<p>What's with some random parentheses?</p>
<p>Mods, please don't hurt me...</p>
<p>Cornell belongs on the bottom because half of it's public and it has a 30% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>US News top 20 is bogus</p>
<p>F that gay thing</p>
<p>RyanOG88,</p>
<p>Be careful of which college you're taling about there at Cornell, the acceptance rate at the Cornell College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) was below 20% last year. Right there on par with Dartmouth and others...still selectivity is tricky... as has been pointed out many times on CC - Cornell engineering has the highest acceptance rate but some of the highest stats - it selects talented students and is regarded as the best engineering program in the ivies...on the other hand, the Hotel School (pretty small program) has one of the lowest acceptance rates but also some of the lowest stats...that's because they look at non-academic qualifications...oddly, some people around the ivy league look down their snobby noses at hotelies...how unfortunate - as a group Cornell hotelies are easily some of the most outgoing fun loving, and talented people I've ever met...that's coming from a CAS student...just my 0.02...if you don't want to take the time to understand Cornell or learn about its unique offerings, that's fine with me...</p>
<p>Peace.</p>