<p>How in the world did Stanford end up as #1 yet it is known as the school with the happiest students? Is palo alto that unsafe? I would think Cornell & NYU would secure the first and second spots respectively.</p>
<p>The</a> 50 Most Stressful Colleges - Galleries - The Daily Beast</p>
<p>I don’t really understand how this ranking system works. Maybe 50 is the worst and 1 is the best? If not, then how does Stanford have a crime rank of 5? I’ve been there for a month and talked to students, both current and former, and it’s probably one of the safest colleges there is…
Honestly, these rankings are probably a load of bull.</p>
<p>Stanford #1 in amount of stress? Give me a break. And, Usnews ranking is now worshiped as “Competitive academics.” What bs is this?</p>
<p>Brown is the school with the happiest students.
I also don’t see how Stanford is #1. My vote would be Cornell.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>To the comment about Cornell, two words: political correctness</p>
<p>What a totally random list.</p>
<p>Caltech, MIT, Swarthmore, Chicago, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Cal and Carnegie Mellon would be my top 10 for stress, but there is no way of actually developping a methodology to capture campus stress levels. This ranking is silly.</p>
<p>What?! Is there that much crime at Carnegie?!</p>
<p>This ranking is absurd. They ranked n’western AHEAD of UChicago?? Anyone that’s visited both Northwestern and UChicago can tell you of the differences between the two schools. UChicago, though a very fine institution, is known as ‘the place where fun goes to die’. Northwestern, on the otherhand, is known as the school where many students also got into UChicago, but preferred to actually have fun on the weekends (and the weekdays, from what I’ve seen). </p>
<p>Could this ranking be based on both grad students and undergrads reporting? Is this based off of some subjective question like: “How stressed do you feel?”</p>
<p>Complete BS, IMHO.</p>
<p>What a surprise! Another useless ranking.</p>
<p>The criteria are explained here:
[The</a> 50 Most Stressful Colleges - The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-04/the-50-most-stressful-colleges/]The”>The Daily Beast: The Latest in Politics, Media & Entertainment News)</p>
<p>So the rankning is based on:
Cost, 35% (not adjusted for aid levels)
Competitiveness, 35%, based on “2010 data from US News & World Report” (?)
Acceptance rate, 10% (not adjusted for average GPA/rank or scores)
Engineering, 10% (“Is the school known for its particularly rigorous graduate engineering program?”)
Crime on campus, 10%</p>
<p>I actually looked at that methodology before the actual rankings. ^ So do they mean to tell me that engineering is the only field of study that a student can become stressed from? What about Architecture majors? What about Business/Finance majors? What about Economics/AppliedMath? (say if you’re doing it at UChicago or NYU) Give me a break.</p>
<p>LasMa, the ranking, if they were ordered accurately, would actually be useful. Like jakebosco70 brought up, students who would have decided between Northwestern and Chicago would actually need a list like this if they were trying to decide whether having fun during college matters to them or not. I think you should at least know the reputation of schools beforehand but lists like this, again, if they were done properly, would just help in deciding between schools.</p>
<p>I calculated the correlation coefficient of this list with the US News rankings at .897. It’s a virtual replication of the US News ranks with the assumption that attending an academically competitive university is inherently stressful. I would argue that for most of the students who attend them, academically competitive universities are exhilarating.</p>