Rank the TOP Public Schools!!

College Search & Selection
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<p>Amongst the followings, RANK THEM!!</p>

<p>UC Berkeley
UCLA
U of Michigan - Ann Arbor
U of Wisconsin - Madison
U of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
GA Tech
UNC
UVa
C of W&M</p>

<li>Top 3 Engineering Schools</li>
<li>Top 3 Letters & Science Schools</li>
<li>Top 3 Schools in General (including answers from 1 and 2 + name recognition + applying for jobs + applying for graduate schools)</li>
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<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley, Ga Tech, UMichigan/UIUC (Its too close, maybe UMich barely)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley, UCLA, Virginia (Michigan is very close)</li>
<li>UC Berkeley, Virginia, Michigan (UCLA is really close)</li>
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<p>berkeley, michigan, virginia, ucla, north carolina, wisconsin, uiuc, ga tech, and c of <a href=“mailto:w@m”>w@m</a>. berkeley number one and the michigan number two because of it’s grad and professional schools.</p>

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<p>engineering: berkeley, michigan, illinois ga tech is good too)
letters & sciences: UVA, UNC, W & M
overall (EASY!) - Berkeley, Mich, UVA</p>

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<p>For Engineering:

  1. University of California-Berkeley
  2. Georgia Institute of Technology
  3. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
  4. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  5. Purdue University-West Lafayette
  6. University of Texas-Austin</p>

<p>For Letters and Sciences:
This is tough. It is really open. However, the most well rounded are the following:
College of William and Mary (primarily in the Letters, not so much in the Sciences)
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (primarily in the Sciences)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin</p>

<p>Overall:

  1. University of California-Berkeley
  2. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  3. University of Virginia
  4. University of California-Los Angeles
  5. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
  6. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  7. University of Texas-Austin
  8. University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
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<p>Your opinion please</p>

<p>not the rankings you find on USNews</p>

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<p>For Letters & Sciences, the top state school is … none of the above.
Any serious ranking of top public schools now has to include:</p>

<p>New College of Florida (a state school)
Critical Reading SAT: [url=<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board]650-750[/url</a>] (middle 50%) - can any other public school match that?</p>

<p>Ranked #2 state school nationally in Wall Street Journal “feeder school” [url=<a href=“wsjclassroomedition.com”>wsjclassroomedition.com]ranking[/url</a>]
(just behind Michigan, ahead of UVa and Berkeley)</p>

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<p>Alexandre, as for UIUC, most of its Letters are ranked in top 25. UIUC’s LAS is generally very well rounded, but very underrated for some reason.</p>

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  1. Berkeley
    the rest</p>

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  1. Berkeley
    the rest</p>

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  1. Berkeley
    the rest</p>
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How long will it exist before it’s not considered “New”?</p>

<p>This would be considered a LAC…I’d rank it in a different category.</p>

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<p>UCLA had the lowest admission rate of any public school listed above followed by Berkeley. </p>

<p>That being said

  1. Berkeley
  2. UCLA
  3. Michigan
  4. Virginia
  5. Wisconsin (highly underrated)
  6. UNC-Chapel Hill
  7. Illinois-UC
  8. UT-Austin
  9. UC San Diego (should be on this list)
  10. University of Washington</p>
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Heh…by 0.1%!</p>

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<p>ucla ph.d is that a general rank? or rank in engineering / letters and science?
Please rank them !!</p>

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<p>Yeah UCB but it is a trend 2 of the last 3 yrs. HAHAHA</p>

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<p>Or is it 3 of the last 4?</p>

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<p>Now it is 2 yrs in a row now and we were tied 4 yrs ago. UCB was harder 3 yrs ago. 4.34 GPA of UCLA’s 2008 class is the highest in UC history.</p>

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<p>DongHyunShin. It is an overall rank. And obviously subjective.</p>

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<p>W&M is in a class by itself. An Ivy-esque experience, LAC more similar to Amherst and Brown and Tufts than to the other publics.</p>

<p>For the Research publics, for undergrad I would rank UVirginia, UCB,UCLA,UMichigan,UNC.</p>

<p>For grad programs:</p>

<p>UCB
UM
UVirginia
UCLA
UNC</p>

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<p>Why do people keep saying UCLA had a lower admission rate than berkeley… for fall 2008 berkeley accepted overall 21.5% while UCLA’s was 22.7%. It was .1 easer for instate students to get into Berkeley at 22.2 compared to 22.1%, but overall Berk’s was still lower. If you look at UC admissions data below it shows that Berkeley’s average GPA and average SAT are higher than UCLA. I don’t know how UCLA can state its average is 4.34 because according to this document its 4.16. Also UCLA, Ph.D I am just wondering where you got you’re info that 4.34 was the highest ever in all of UC… it may be, but I just haven’t read that anywhere and it seems to be contrary to UC’s admission statistics.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2008/freshman_admit_profile_2008.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/news/factsheets/2008/freshman_admit_profile_2008.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Overall:
William & Mary
UC-Berkeley
Virginia
UNC
UCLA
Michigan
Illinois
Georgia Tech
Wisconsin</p>