<p>What school's are on the top 20 list??</p>
<p>If you were to combine all the separate categories US News uses, the consensus list would be kinda like this:</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Penn
Amherst
Columbia
Williams
Caltech
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
Swarthmore
Johns Hopkins
Pomona
Georgetown
Michigan</p>
<p>Honorable Mention
Vanderbilt, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Carleton, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia, Tufts, Claremont McKenna, Notre Dame</p>
<p>In roughly that order</p>
<p>Errrr, it's kinda nice to see my school in that list of yours, but this is no consensus list. Sure, it's a combination of all the criteria, but uh, it's inaccurate. UCB as honorable mention? Surely it belongs to the top 10.</p>
<p>Uhh no that's definately not a consensus list. There's no way Chicago, WUSTL, or Brown are behind the thirty or so you listed.</p>
<p>u put in vanderbilt yet no emory. bad list!</p>
<p>yeah notre dame!</p>
<p>No washU???</p>
<p>yeah seriously though...in defense of viperm washU should definately be on there</p>
<p>Any list labeled "consensus" on CC is heavily NE biased. Of course, WashU belongs on any list that includes Rice and Georgetown, in fact it should be ahead of them. And UC-Berkeley as "honorable mention" while Michigan makes the "consensus" list. I repeat, NE bias through and through.</p>
<p>agreed...swarthmore and williams but ND only honorable mention...and if washU isnt on the list this person is completely bias</p>
<p>swathmore andwilliams are better than ND hands down</p>
<p>im insulted my school isnt on there.</p>
<p>agreed. chicago should be up there too</p>
<p>I didn't even notice at first that Brown and Chicago were not on the so-called "consensus" :rolleyes: list. Okay, it wasn't NE bias necessarily ....just a bad list. </p>
<p>OP: If you go to the USNWR website, look at the ranking list for National Universities and the separate one for Liberal Arts Colleges and that will give you a pretty good idea of the "top" colleges in the U.S.</p>
<p>Top 20 schools on my list:</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Penn
Amherst
Columbia
UChicago
Caltech
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke
UVA
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
Johns Hopkins
UCLA
Georgetown
UMichigan</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Caltech </li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>U Penn</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Michigan </li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
</ol>
<p>Honorable Mention:
Vanderbilt, USC, UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wisconsin, Carnegie Mellon, UT-Austin, UIUC, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory</p>
<p>top 20 on mine</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Amherst
Columbia
UChicago
Caltech
Dartmouth
Williams
Cornell
Penn
Duke
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Vanderbilt
Middlebury</p>
<p>this thread makes me realize to what extent wustl is underrated. it should be in the top 20 of any list, and a strong argument could be made for the top 15. in 5-10 years, it'll be in the ranks of HYP. i'm glad so few people realize what a great school it is though, maybe it'll increase my chances lol</p>
<p>Tccc, what makes WUSTL such a great university? Why do you think it will eventually challenge the likes of Harvard in the next 5 years? Over the last 2 decades, I have seen WUSTL selectivity jump in leaps and bounds, but nothing else seems to have improved. </p>
<p>Its endowment growth has lagged other that of all top 20 universities save Johns Hopkins. In fact, its endowment has grown by a mere 480% in 20 years. Among top 25 universities, only Johns Hopkins and Rice have experienced endowment growths under 600%. And its peer assessment score has not improved whatsoever in the last 20 years. WUSTL is a very good university, but I do not see it reaching the level of Harvard in the next 5 years...or 10 years for that matter.</p>