<p>does anyone know top 50 college selectivity ranking from USNEWs?</p>
<h1>1 Harvard University</h1>
<h1>2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>2 Yale University</h1>
<h1>4 California Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>4 Princeton University</h1>
<h1>6 Columbia University</h1>
<h1>6 Washington University-St Louis</h1>
<h1>8 Stanford University</h1>
<h1>8 University of Pennsylvania</h1>
<h1>10 Brown University</h1>
<h1>11 Dartmouth College</h1>
<h1>11 Duke University</h1>
<h1>11 Rice University</h1>
<h1>14 University of California-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>15 Emory University</h1>
<h1>15 Georgetown University</h1>
<h1>17 Northwestern University</h1>
<h1>17 Tufts University</h1>
<h1>17 University of California-Los Angeles</h1>
<h1>17 University of Notre Dame</h1>
<h1>17 University of Southern California</h1>
<h1>22 Cornell University</h1>
<h1>22 Johns Hopkins University</h1>
<h1>22 University of Chicago</h1>
<h1>22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>
<h1>22 College of William & Mary</h1>
<h1>26 University of Virginia</h1>
<h1>26 Vanderbilt University</h1>
<h1>29 Boston College</h1>
<h1>29 Brandeis University</h1>
<h1>29 University of California-San Diego</h1>
<h1>32 Carnegie Melon University</h1>
<h1>32 Lehigh University</h1>
<h1>32 Tulane University</h1>
<h1>35 New York University</h1>
<h1>35 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill</h1>
<h1>35 University of Rochester</h1>
<h1>38 University of California-Irvine</h1>
<h1>39 University of California-Santa Barbara</h1>
<h1>39 University of Florida</h1>
<h1>39 Wake Forest University</h1>
<p>That's the ranking for universities. There's a separate one for liberal arts colleges, and unfortunately, it's hard to compare the two.</p>
<p>I don't understand how wustl is so selective... they have close to a 1/4 yield</p>
<p>Why is carnegie melon so low?</p>
<p>Selectivity is a bad way to look at colleges</p>
<p>Instead look at entering SATs, grad placement, so on and so forth </p>
<p>For example, Cornell is outside the top 20 ... WashU beats Stanford... Chicago is incredibly low as well...yet all three schools are amazing and offer unlimited opportunties to its students</p>
<p>"Chicago is incredibly low as well..."</p>
<p>chicago suffers from a high acceptance rate and low yield, that is why they are so low</p>
<p>The selectivity ranking isnt that great of a tool imo for a few reasons.</p>
<p>For 1, % accepted isn't as big as a deal as people would make you think. Sure it matters at a school like Yale where they have a 9% acceptance rate - and it literally is a crap shoot even if you have perfect scores, but it doesn't matter at a school like chicago - all testing scores indicate they are just as selective as harvard - its just they have fewer people applying. </p>
<p>Also, schools like cal and ucla are given huge advantages because its pretty easy to apply to them - its a matter of checking off an additional box on your UC application. This artificially drives down their acceptance rate. also, their freshman class isn't proportional to the size of the school - because a good 30% of the school is transfer students. </p>
<p>Also, when certain schools arn't exactly honest about the % in top 10%, <em>cough</em>cal<em>cough</em>, then it also skews the ranking.</p>
<p>Sorry jags, Chicago isn;t close to as selective as Harvard, the scores ARE 60points lower which is substantial.</p>
<p>i have no doubt that the mentioned colleges are great.
I was actually looking the ranks to determine which colleges I should send my application. It would be waste of money sending my app to #1 selectivy school if i don't have the stats for it.</p>
<p>slipper,</p>
<p>of course chicago isn't as close as selective as harvard - they do have to accept around 40% of the applicants to fill their freshman class.</p>
<p>however, 60 points isn't that substantial, - and when you look at the ACT scores - which chicago is 1 point lower - it narrows the gap widely.</p>
<p>Regardless, my point wasn't to say that chicago was easier or more difficult to get into, it was that comparable students apply to chicago (selectivity 22) and Dukes, Stanfords, Penns, which all are "more selective" than chicago.</p>
<p>"however, 60 points isn't that substantial, - and when you look at the ACT scores - which chicago is 1 point lower - it narrows the gap widely."</p>
<p>east coast schools i think generally focus less on/receive less ACT scores than midwest schools do</p>
<p>I wonder how did USNWR come up with the ranking...</p>
<p>On their web site they describe clearly how they do the rankings. </p>
<p>Briefly:</p>
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75 percent of a school's ranking is based on a formula that uses objective measures of academic quality such as graduation rates. The remaining 25 percent is based on a peer assessment survey. U.S. News asks the president, provost, and dean of admissions at each school to rate the quality of the academic programs for schools in the same category, including their own...To rank colleges, U.S. News first places each school into categories based on mission (research university or liberal arts college) and, for universities offering a range of master's programs and colleges focusing on undergraduate education without a particular emphasis on the liberal arts, by location (North, South, Midwest, and West). Universities where there is a focus on research and that offer several doctoral programs are ranked separately from liberal arts colleges, and master's universities and comprehensive colleges are compared against other schools in the same group and region. Second, we gather data from and about each school in 15 areas related to academic excellence. Each indicator is assigned a weight (expressed as a percentage) based on our judgments about which measures of quality matter most. Third, the colleges are ranked based on their composite weighted score. We publish the numeric rank of roughly the top half of schools in each of the 10 categories; the remainder are placed into the third and fourth tiers, listed alphabetically, based on their overall score in their category.
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<p>Thank you for answering but I was actually asking for the selectivity ranking.</p>
<p>Can you open this link? I can't cut and paste it because it's in a table.</p>
<p>^ thanks for the link.</p>
<p>can you provide the link for the best faculty?
Thank you in advance</p>
<p>I believe you are referring to the category called "Faculty Resources"?</p>
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Faculty resources (20 percent). Research shows that the more satisfied students are about their contact with professors, the more they will learn and the more likely it is they will graduate. We use six factors from the 2005-06 academic year to assess a school's commitment to instruction. Class size has two components: the proportion of classes with fewer than 20 students (30 percent of the faculty resources score) and the proportion with 50 or more students (10 percent of the score).</p>
<p>In our model, a school benefits more for having a large proportion of classes with fewer than 20 students and a small proportion of large classes. Faculty salary (35 percent) is the average faculty pay, plus benefits, during the 2004-05 and 2005-06 academic years, adjusted for regional differences in the cost of living (using indexes from the consulting firm Runzheimer International). We also weigh the proportion of professors with the highest degree in their fields (15 percent), the student-faculty ratio (5 percent), and the proportion of faculty who are full time (5 percent).
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