U.S. News 2006 Ranking Prediction

College Search & Selection
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<p>September, I believe. Or maybe late August.</p>

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<p>Just reorganize the rankings by percent accepted, bump michigan up a few spots and bump WashU down and you have your rankings.</p>

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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>CIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell </li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Wash. U.</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Vanderbilt </li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>UND</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>Case Western Reserve</li>
</ol>

<p>John Hopkins and Washington University in St. Louis have been widely overated for undergrad too much. Their humanties and arts programs are not on par with that of some of the other top universities. On the other hand University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, and Cornell have been widely underated for undergraduate programs due to location and graduation rates.</p>

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<p>You have Brown listed twice.</p>

45

<p>Did you just bump Dartmouth down like four spots?</p>

46

<p>Is the ranking how it SHOULD be ranked, or how it WILL be ranked by USNews, including their bias?</p>

47

<p>Here's the CORRECT "prediction"</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>CIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell </li>
<li>Brown
13.JHU</li>
<li>Wash. U.</li>
<li>Vanderbilt </li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Emory
19 UND</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>U Virginia</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>

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<p>NYU, everyone knows NYU has been rising, and its lower ranking, (35) is a result of its graduation rate/retention rates, which are much lower than several other schools of equal to lower quality, that are in the top 15 ranked list...</p>

<p>For example, NYU can definitely be compared to schools such as, WUSTL, Carnegie Mellon, USC, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Northwestern, Emory, UVA, and even in some respects Georgetown.</p>

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<p>Everyone keeps forgetting Wake Forest! Its average SAT score jumped to 1380 this year, which is on par with higher ranked schools. I refuse to put in WUStL because I have no idea where it will be. I'll also predict the LACs, which nobody's done yet. Feel free to disagree, but keep in mind this is from USN's pov, not mine...</p>

<p>Universities
1. Harvard & Princeton (or Princeton & Harvard, if you prefer)
3. Yale
4. MIT & Stanford
6. Duke & Caltech & Penn
9. Columbia & Dartmouth
11. Northwestern
12. U Chicago & Brown
14. Cornell & JHU
16. Rice
17. Emory
18. Vanderbilt
19. Notre Dame
20. UC Berkeley
21. UVA & Michigan
23. Georgetown & Carnegie Mellon
25. Wake Forest
26. UCLA
27. Tufts
28. UNC
29. USC
30. NYU</p>

<p>Liberal Arts Colleges
1. Swarthmore
2. Amherst & Williams
4. Wellesley
5. Pomona
6. Davidson & Carleton
8. Bowdoin
9. Haverford & Middlebury/Vassar
11. Wesleyan & Middlebury/Vassar
13. CMC & Smith & Grinnell
16. Washington and Lee
17. Colgate & Colby & Harvey Mudd
20. Bryn Mawr
21. Hamilton & Oberlin
23. Bates
24. Bucknell & Macalester
26. Trinity & Mount Holyoke
28. Scripps & Barnard
30. Kenyon</p>

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<p>People go through this every year -- and in the end, what does it mean? It's a fun parlour game for CCers -- Have at it; you'll know if you're right or wrong when the 2006 edition comes out.</p>

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<p>Hey, in that one list, Brown is at 13th AND 16th</p>

<p>must be a weird year for them</p>

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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale.</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>U of Chicago</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>John Hopkins</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Norte Dame</li>
<li>Emory</li>
</ol>

<p>I really doubt it will change that much, if at all.</p>

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<p>I doubt Northwestern will be that high, it has almost never been in the top ten.</p>

54

<p>It seems like Columbia's yield has been increasing, but their average SAT may be decreasing.</p>

55

<p>Maybe they're attracting more athletes and artists? But I think they're also playing that waitlist game where they waitlist you if they think you might go to a higher ranked school and they want to "test out" your interest.</p>

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<p>This is ridiculous. Don't all you smart people realize that this whole thing is a ploy to market a magazine that's barely staying alive. They need to do something each year to tweak it a little bit so they can get a lot of press. </p>

<p>Personally, i think the whole thing is a journalistic abomination and credit USN&WR (or Snooze, as its called) with distorting college admissions beyond recognition.</p>

57

<p>they are mchs-
I have heard rumors they are doing a feature article on a school that has refused to participate in their ranking survey</p>

58

<p>I think everyone realizes that</p>

59

<p>Here is something to keep in mind...In the past 15 years, Dartmouth has never been outside the top ten. Them dropping below cornell is not going to happen.</p>

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<p>if you make it to a top 30 university these days, you're good to go. it's all good.</p>