<p>What about Tulane?</p>
<p>nice breakdown, very interesting</p>
<p>Kind of funny that the general public ranks Tennessee, Texas A&M, Arizona, and LSU ahead of Columbia. Are people on crack!??!</p>
<p>Nabikov – no, but they would appear to be from the South.</p>
<p>Tulane, where are you fallenchemist?</p>
<p>rofl @ the average guy’s inflated views of harvard</p>
<p>@ghostbuster good comment. My heart goes to the Lynn University family in South Florida.</p>
<p>RML, is Gullop different from Gallup?
Or is it just the same guy after he’s had a few?</p>
<p>Where is the backup to all of this data? Any sources or links? Take this Gallup poll – can you at least provide a link please?</p>
<p>I guess this is it …</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Number One University in Eyes of Public](<a href=“Harvard Number One University in Eyes of Public”>Harvard Number One University in Eyes of Public)</p>
<p>ghostbuster, Did you honestly come to collegeconfidential.com expecting to see anything but discussions about college during the winter preceding college decisions?
Perhaps we should talk about haiti. Then what?
Another question: why did you come to this thread? A sense of self-righteousness, most likely.</p>
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<p>I hope that’s not the source. That poll is 7 years old!</p>
<p>the_prestige… most, if not all, the data used by RML is either outdated or irrelevant. Most CCers know better than to take the rankings seriously. I fear impressionable high school students do not.</p>
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<p>Anyone who follows CC knows that RML is an unapologetic Cal fanatic. So the motives are quite clear when RML produces a ranking… </p>
<p>and lo and behold! </p>
<p>Cal is ranked as a “super elite” undergrad program belying its national ranking by US News as an undergrad program consistently ranked outside of the Top 20. Let me repeat that: CONSISTENTLY RANKED OUTSIDE THE TOP 20. Cal’s last ranking inside the Top 20 was back in 1994 (16 years ago!) and even then it was ranked no. 19. Since then its ranked as low as no. 27 (1997) and has ranked no. 20 multiple times.</p>
<p>But now we are supposed to believe Cal now does an Empire State Building clearing jump up to the 7th best undergrad program in the country, somehow leapfrogging: Caltech, UPenn, Columbia, Brown, Duke, Chicago, Cornell, Northwestern, Hopkins, et. al? </p>
<p>Spare us.</p>
<p>^ I fear that you are correct.</p>
<p>I have said this many times but I’ll say it again. I can produce “rankings” by selecting certain data and conviniently omitting other data and have Emory high as 7 or 8. Defs in top 10. This can be said for 20 to 30 universities which are good enough that a little extra tweaking in the ranking’s methodology can produce a very favourable result.</p>
<p>^ Ah this is so sad.</p>
<p>I don’t know who people have the need to demonstrate why one school is better than the other. Like it matters in the long run?</p>
<p>Either way, the data he collected generally has NOTHING to do with prestige.</p>
<p>What I don’t get is why the moderators decided to make this a featured thread. Bizarre. Slow news day, I guess.</p>
<p>spanglish what do you mean? The point I was trying to make is that these “rankings” are bogus because the person formulating the ranking can tweak it to favour their preferred schools… apparently with, RML, it is Berkeley. </p>
<p>Pbr, I agree 100 %. This should NOT be a featured thread. We should not encourage false information to be distributed to a wider audience.</p>
<p>^ Oh sorry for being so vague! Haha oops.
I was agreeing with you (re: so sad) and just further considering why RML would post these rankings just to prove UCB is a “super elite” school</p>
<p>its like RML created a list of the hottest women:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bar Raefali</li>
<li>Adriana Lima</li>
<li>Megan Fox</li>
<li>Kate Beckinsale</li>
<li>Minka Kelly</li>
</ul>
<p>and then… tried to sneak in:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tori Spelling</li>
</ul>
<p>as if no one would notice.</p>