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<p>Are you serious? US News and World Reports obviously begs to differ.</p>
<p>i think all the #2-10 work but #1 you guys all got it wrong...shame on you ignorant people...
1. Bob Jones university</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Pensacola Christian College</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Bob Jones</li>
<li>Ball State</li>
<li>Paul Quinn's College</li>
<li>Ole Miss</li>
<li>IUPUI</li>
<li>SUNY Nowhere</li>
<li>Your local Community College</li>
<li>College of Notre Dame of Maryland</li>
<li>Any college in Montana</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
</ol>
<p>About Chicago: I think it's not really correct to judge schools on their acceptance rate. There are small schools that have extremely low acceptance rate, but are definately not that good, and there are huge schools with 1000+ people/class that have higher acceptance rate, but are not worse than the small schools.</p>
<p>Harvard clearly hast he most reputation of any shcool, it is ignorant adn actualyl quazi pretentious tho think otherwize, granted i wouldnt want to go there, but when people are making joeks its harvard</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Toronto</li>
<li>McGill University</li>
<li>University of British Columbia</li>
<li>University of Western Ontario</li>
<li>Queen's University</li>
<li>University of Alberta</li>
<li>University of Montreal</li>
<li>McMaster University</li>
<li>Universite de Sherbrooke</li>
<li>University of Saskatchewan</li>
</ol>
<p>yes, canadians are american</p>
<p>You should include one US school to show your good will not to discriminate against US Americans ^^</p>
<p>not one canadian school is good enough to be in the top 10.</p>
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Imo UChic's high acceptance rate is not so much due to its "self-selecting applicant pool" (if you believe in that) but due to its low yield rate... only like 30%, which tells us that its not the first choice of most successful applicants. With a yield rate of about 60% (like Stanford), its acceptance rate would be in the 20-25% range instead of 40%.
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<p>I agree that acceptance rates is one of the worst basis to judge a school (particularly if it is the only criteria).</p>
<p>Elite student applicants pretty much apply to the same group of schools and a larger school is going to have a higher acceptance rate solely on the basis that it has a larger class size.</p>
<p>And on the other front - a school like Harvard is going to get a % of students who apply to Harvard for the heck of it (a total long-shot) just b/c it's Harvard.</p>
<p>When you look at the make-up of UoChicago's student body - it is very competitive with other top universities.</p>
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And on the other front - a school like Harvard is going to get a % of students who apply to Harvard for the heck of it (a total long-shot) just b/c it's Harvard.
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<p>This is very true, and inflates Harvard's admissions stats like no other. </p>
<p>About one-third of the people in my HS applied to Harvard, most as a lark. </p>
<p>This is completely *not *true of places like Amherst-Williams-Swarthmore etc. </p>
<p>Even Yale and Princeton have nowhere near the number of silly apps that Harvard has.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton
2.Harvard
3.Yale
4.Stanford
5.Mit
6.Caltech
7.Penn
8.Duke
9.Georgetown
10.Dartmouth</li>
</ol>
<p>Um, Georgetown over Brown? Or any number of other schools?</p>
<p>Ok, whatever. This thread is pointless. Enough with ranking unrankable things!</p>
<p>this is completely pointless, it's like each school is more reowned in specific departments and offer different opportunities. It all depends on what the student wants to pursue</p>
<p>wichita state should be number 1</p>
<p>1.Harvard
2.Princeton
3.Yale
4.Stanford
5.MIT
6.Chicago
7.Caltech
8.Penn
9. UC-Berkeley
10. Duke</p>
<p>All your stupid universities in the U.S are specialised in a certain field, i find that silly, they should be all round, Oxford Cambridge and Imperial are 30x better than any of yours. If you want a worthwhile education come to England, ignorant Americans, oh and stop murdering innocent Iraqis'.</p>
<p>play cricket</p>
<p>I didn't judge UChic based on its acceptance rate; I just hate to read all those posts that keep saying UChic's acceptance rate is so (relatively) high due to its self-selecting applicant pool (EVERY school has a self-selecting applicant pool), but no one ever mentions their yield rate which is AT LEAST as significant in that regard.</p>
<p>UChic is a great school, but the yield rate demonstrates that it is not considered a first choice by many outstanding students (and those students should be smart enough to make a sensible decision), which is why it should not be in the top 10 imo. That is what this thread is about after all.</p>