Real top 10 schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>There is NO such thing as a “real top 10” school. We have a top 5 or 6. But a top 10 list is no less arbitrary than a top 9 or top 11 list. The gap between 6 and 7 is much, much greater than the gap between 10 and 11. So this is really an exercise in futility, although that’s never stopped CC posters (including myself) before.</p>

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<p>^^^^</p>

<p>That’s why I favor an All-Star Team: the top 25.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/779621-new-higher-education-ranking-system.html?highlight=baseball[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/779621-new-higher-education-ranking-system.html?highlight=baseball&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The differences between them are distinctions w/o signficance.</p>

<p>Even top 5 or 6 is, realistically, meaningless. </p>

<p>Kei</p>

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<p>For undergrad:
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Dartmouth
Williams
Stanford
MIT
Columbia
Penn
Duke</p>

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<p>^ Why Williams and not Amherst or Swarthmore?</p>

<p>My guess is because you have some sort of affiliation with Williams.</p>

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<p>98.00 Stanford
97.15 Harvard
96.80 Princeton
96.30 MIT
96.30 Yale</p>

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<li>huge drop -</li>
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<p>90.60 Berkeley
90.25 Penn
90.00 Columbia
89.85 Chicago
89.70 Duke</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/780850-best-us-colleges.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/780850-best-us-colleges.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Nah. Detractors can’t dispelthe nagging feeling that LACs are superior places to receive an undergraduate education. They therefore pay homage to the entire group by patronizing the one school that has been ranked first very often.</p>

<p>Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Notre Dame, Stanford, Williams, Amherst.</p>

<p>I don’t care to name a tenth.</p>

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<p>^ you forgot Pomona haha ;P</p>

<p>My top ten undergraduate educations (in alphabetical order):</p>

<p>Amherst, Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pomona, Princeton, Stanford, Williams, Yale</p>

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<p>If you just rank the schools by SAT, you get:

  1. Harvard University
  2. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  3. Yale University
  4. California Institute of Technology
  5. Princeton University
  6. Harvey Mudd College
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  8. Dartmouth College
  9. Stanford University
  10. Duke University</p>

<p>If you just rank the schools by ACT, you get:

  1. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  2. California Institute of Technology
  3. Harvard University
  4. Duke University
  5. Pomona College
  6. University of Notre Dame
  7. Amherst College
  8. Rice University
  9. Dartmouth College
  10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  11. Yale University
  12. Princeton University</p>
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<p>This is stupid. In what way is “Best Schools in My Incredibly Biased Opinion” more accurate than US News? I mean, sure, US News is totally inaccurate as well, but don’t pretend you can do better, it’s just absurd. What, you’re some kind of expert on every one of these schools?</p>

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<p>raelah is totally a fun killer. However, I do agree that ranking schools using opinions or PA is pretty useless.</p>

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Wow. This is the sentiment that I’ve been trying to put into words for months. Thanks!</p>

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<p>“This is stupid. In what way is “Best Schools in My Incredibly Biased Opinion” more accurate than US News? I mean, sure, US News is totally inaccurate as well, but don’t pretend you can do better, it’s just absurd. What, you’re some kind of expert on every one of these schools?”</p>

<p>Welcome to the College Search and Selection forum on CC (aka Biased Rankings/Support Your School Here Forum)</p>

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<p>if you say so, then it must be true!</p>

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<p>This doesn’t look right. Where are you getting your stats?</p>

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<p>I think LACs are the worst inventions ever made in the field of education</p>

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<p>okay so here it goes
i am loking for a college or university that has a good translating and interpreting program.
i realy want to work for the United Nations or any other government organization.
i am taking spanish now in highschool…but i need to find a school.
also i want to know what my major should be.
i want to work internationally.
what other majors should i consider,since i want to work internationally.
i will really apreciate any suggestions
i reallly love languages and working internationally and also traveling
THANKS</p>