Rankings

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<p>hi...these are the latest rankings by usnews...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/brief/engrank_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>highest jump is by purdue...</p>

<p>opinions,comments anyone...</p>

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<p>i think that's pretty irrelevant for most people on CC because it's grad schs...</p>

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<p>yeah exactly...</p>

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<p>well i for one dont believe in these rankings at all...</p>

<p>the college and university selection goes beyond these rankings...</p>

<p>SM</p>

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<p>men... r u allright?! ... did u notice at the begining of the page of the link that wasup has provided that the classification is about GRADUATES UNIVERSITIES ONLY??!! I know that some of u r a little bit confused because of the rejections and some other r in euphoria because of the admissions but doing such mistakes...</p>

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<p>no we didnt miss that...just commenting...</p>

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<p>ah ok... but to be more sure about u say i would reccomend u to do this. Get the page about best colleges 2006 in US news and then get the page about best graduate universities 2006 also at US news. U will c that there is a very big difference between colleges and graudate uni classification even within the same year, let alone an year later. So i would advice u not to take into consideration that classification for the reason that after 4 years i am sure that the classification will change drastically...</p>

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<p>lol i kno that...its quite a farce to an extent...</p>

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<p>going off topic, what other US university rankings(UG) do you know about? (besides usnews and the Shanghai University Top 500)</p>

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<p>Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) <a href="http://www.thes.co.uk%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.thes.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>see all ranking are pretty screwed....i mean THES always brings in the non-us players in the high rank and comfortably ignore univs like CMU !! Then the shanghai one i think is still living in the past their rankings are pretty much always the same....US news evalutions can really really confuse you...so according to me there are just levels of classifications in colleges...like top 25,top50,top100....u cant be really sure abt the exact rank....
for one i think USnews ranks USC 7th but graduateshotline.com (another ranking site) ranks it like 22....which is enough to confuse anyone..:)</p>

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<p>exactly, and on the THES rankings, duke jumped up by more than a 100 places.. how did they manage that?!!?! and dartmouth is like a 100 something ...</p>

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<p>bottomline-rankings are a farce...eg.u cant compare something like CMU or cornell...</p>

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<p>but what do graduate schools look for in a candidate? aren't they searching for applicants that have graduated from some top 25 college/univ instead of a bottom top 50, even if the same person might get a just as good education at both schools?</p>

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<p>no.. simply put graduate schools are looking at students who have a good GPA ( in whatever course they need), Have a satisfying research track record and have been utilising their time.
In your question however you have given a huge jum i mean top 25 and bottom 50 is like a difference of abt 500-800 universities in USA...so obviously yeah after a limit the college does matter..but we are discussing the general policy of comparing top 25 with each other or top 50 with each other...</p>

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<p>ooops.....I meant something else...reiterating: I wanted to compare colleges in the top 25 (Middlebury,Grinnell) to lower top 50 (as in Gettysburg, or even lower than top 50, like Beloit, Knox, Muhlenberg).</p>