<p>vanderbilt is mad legit</p>
<p>harvard, since when did u turn all gangstaaa??</p>
<p>yoooo Penn and Duke are mad legit soooon yooo soon.</p>
<p>Has Rap-speak really crept into the college level parlance? Say it isn't so!</p>
<p>correction SouthernBoy- Say it ain't soo............</p>
<p>But, with all due respect, Vandy is mad legit</p>
<p>wow i've been gone from this forum for a while. Rice doesn't get any love. So sad. It needs to get so much more. Just if people weren't so close-minded about Texas!!!</p>
<p>uhhh when do the real rankings even come out?</p>
<p>This is what i hope.</p>
<p>Big drop in rank:
1. Brown
2. Penn
3. Duke</p>
<p>Increase in rank:
1. UVA
2. UCB
3. MIT
4. Cornell
5. Georgetown</p>
<p>I probably forget some....</p>
<p>Duke's been top 10 since US News started ranking colleges. I doubt we'll see a "big drop" in its ranking, although I think it will (or at least, should) slip out of the top five. I can't see Penn or Brown dropping more than a couple spots either.</p>
<p>The new US News rankings should be out around the 19th-20th.</p>
<p>collegekid what are you talking about. if there were numbers that showed the cross admit data between yale and chicago im sure you will find that yale will most of the time. its most likely not even a contest. being admitted to both yale and stanford i have gone to the admit weekends and when kids tell me what schools they were considering, though they did get into chicago, it was never even a part of their list. please tell me someone that you know that gave up chicago for yale and stanford. yes it does happen but mostly only when money is involved. you can talk about how kids ignore prestige as much as you want but at the end you have to realize that HYPSM lose very few students and the ones they do are mostly lost to each other or to schools that offer alot of money. my opinion is not biased. i actually met people who were admitted to both schools and in most cases chicago is not even considered</p>
<p>No, if anything, Brown will go up. Ever since Brown got a new president, it's been doing better in the rankings. </p>
<p>I wonder why everyone's so serious about the university rankings, and nobody cares about the LAC rankings? :confused:</p>
<p>where did this HYPSM thing start from, i mean in the world academia, is that how it is, only 5 schools make the mark for top 5? I understand clearly HYPS, but M is a tech school and I mean, is that stanford fit or harvard type who wants to major in english gonna even consider MIT?</p>
<p>MIT is amazing in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Top 5 in Business, Economics and Linguistings and top 10 in Philosophy, Political Science and Psychology. So no, MIT is not merely a "tech" school.</p>
<p>uvajoe, why would Duke have a massive drop? If anything, we will stay the same, go up a little, or move down maybe one or two. We just got a new President who was dean at Yale and we are doing better than ever. Moreover, we were even tied with Yale once even before him. Even moreso, why ON EARTH WOULD PENN GO DOWN? That will never happen. If anything, they might even be third. People were routinely rejected by Penn and got into Princeton around where I live.</p>
<p>Also, why would UVA and Cornell have a MASSIVE increase. UVA has not done anything abnormal for the past three years. Also, Cornell has only been in the top 10 once, and I do not feel that there is ONE school in the top 10 that Cornell will bump off. I know this year's data is not used. But did Cornell not have difficulty filling up their class this year? Did they not get around 150 people off the waitlist because kids turned in down for other offers? I just don't see how Cornell has used the system in their favor over the past couple of years. Because it is just that....a system.</p>
<p>1.) Harvard
2.) Princeton, Yale
4.) Stanford, Duke, Penn
7.) MIT, Caltech
9.) Columbia, Dartmouth
11.) Brown, Northwestern
13.) UChicago
14.) Cornell, WUSTL
16.) JHU
17.) ND, Vanderbilt, Rice
20.) Berkely, Michigan
Thats all we have folks!</p>
<p>By the way, when are new rankings OFFICIALLY coming out?</p>
<p>collegkid - i agree with you in that i think mit is overrated. I know, what blasphemy drab, what are you thinking? Well, the kids who go there are amazing and the profs are amazing and everything, but it is such a different environment that it fits few people. I am not one of these people. Yes, i realize if i wanted to go, the chances of me getting in are very slim, but i would never want to go to such a place, and greatly respect those who do. Some of those kids are geniuses, and some have great senses of humor.</p>
<p>alexandre, if we are talking grad programs, mit has a few gems, but to call them strong across the social sciences and humanities seems like over doing it.</p>
<p>As to the "HYPSM" thing, that is only here in the cc bubble, and it is pretty stupid.</p>
<p>MIT IS strong in the social sciences. That is a fact. They are top ranked in the aforementioned programs Alexander listed. They even have an excellent business school. If anything, MIT is UNDERrated here on CC. It is not just some cloistered institution full of engineers and techies.</p>
<p>davilmaycry, mit is not underrated here, that is for sure. many list it as one of the "five best," and it might be for certain subjects, but overall, it appears to lack depth beyond perhaps the best science education in the country. Caltech is also in the boat with mit, overrated for the masses, because the place is desireable to such a small population of the college going world.</p>
<p>Mr. Devil, from 1991 to 2001, Cornell was in the top 10 4 times, get your facts str8. It has never gone below 15 and has been as high as 6.</p>