<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>i am disappointed. but i still <3 umich</p>
<p>Check out the Peer Assesment drop. That probably tells the whole story.</p>
<p>ARGH!!! 3 SPOTS!! MY life is ruinedddd.........!</p>
<p>My thoughts are what's with the exclamation point? It's a bummer we moved down not up, but it's not a plummet.</p>
<p>What's distressingly true is that the difference between 25 & 26 is apparently pretty big. No one wants to be "off the front page"--there are actually consequences to that, a colleague told me she just read a study on that. So I guess I'm grateful that we didn't move four spots down.</p>
<p>I thought maybe selectivity would be what got us. I'd thought it was out of the 2006 ranking but someone on another forum claimed it was still in. Since Fall 2004's applicant pool was much smaller, selectivity ratios changed. That will bounce back (it was a one year thing) but would play a small role if they include it.</p>
<p>US News is on my crap list right now because we're supposed to have access to the site and they haven't sent it to us yet.</p>
<p>so that makes it 26? its gotta be cause of its selectivity</p>
<p>No, it's 25th. I was saying I was glad it wasn't 26th, because even though a one-spot different is puny in real terms, that particular one-spot difference is large in how people think of it.</p>
<p>Do not panic kids, Michigan always hovers between 22 and 25 (has for the last 10+ years) and its peer assessment score always floats between 4.5 and 4.6. This year is business as usual.</p>
<p>Just looking from the limited free online listings, I noticed UMich did move up a spot in environmental and materials engineering, to 2nd and 3rd in the nation, respectively.</p>
<p>Michigan also jumped to #1 and #3 in Management and International Business respectively, overtaking Wharton in both cases. </p>
<p>But we did drop from 2 to 3 in Mechanical Engineering. </p>
<p>Oh well, can't win them all. At any rate, Michigan is not going anywhere. It remains one of the top 10 or 15 universities in the nation, no matter what the USNWR says.</p>
<p>agreed, Alexandre. But we're not biased, are we?:)</p>
<p>I didn't pick Michigan because it was ranked 22 instead of 25. That would have made no impact on my decision. Even at 25, we're still comparable to schools like UCLA, Georgetown, UVa, CMU, UNC, etc., which is where we should be, so there's no big problem with the new ranking. The final overall score (which determines the rankings) are just a part of some equation. So everything usnews does is based on calculations, a certain percentage being assigned to various categories.</p>
<p>Btw, what is this year's PA score? I couldn't see because I didn't pay lol.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I looked at an old usnews rankings once (I think 1999 or 2000), and if I'm not mistaken, I believe Ross was tied with Wharton for 1st for overall business program. I could have seen it wrong, though. Can you confirm this?</p>
<p>Well the bottom line is that Michigan is still very consistent.</p>
<p>You are quite correct Redhare, Michigan was indeed tied with Wharton at #1 for a year or two. And although Michigan is comparable to Georgetown, CMU etc... using the USNWR, it is actually considered a notch above by most academics and recruiters. </p>
<p>Biased Garland...nous? Naaaaahhhh!!!</p>
<p>The PA score (I assume you mean peer assessment score) dropped a tenth of a point this year. This is something a few colleges have already asked US News about, because of the strange trend of many colleges dropping while few went up. We find it hard to believe that a large group of raters all came to the conclusion that a whole bunch of colleges just got a little worse than they were last year. Something else is going on.</p>
<p>Oh no! I guess i'm not going to apply there then, because they aren't as high as they were in the US News rankings. :-/</p>
<p>Why does anyone care?</p>
<p>Because Michigan deserves better damnit! lol...they're so underrated</p>
<p>Umdarr, I also thought that Michigan was underrated... until I hit graduate school and the real world. Let me tell you, the amount of respect the academic and professional worlds heaps on Michigan is downright outrageous. Michigan is one of the top 10 universities in most professional and academic circles. The USNWR influences high school students and uneducated people. Nut what do you care what high school students and uneducated people think? Adcoms at top graduate programs and recruiters at fortune 500 companies accross the world are going to recognize and respect your degree, and that's far more important than the opinion of the general public.</p>
<p>yeah, I guess you're right there lol. It just still feels slightly annoying though that people don't think as high of it as they should lol. But that's ok cause I'm going there and they're not, woot!</p>
<p>michigan's very highly looked upon at where i come from.</p>
<p>here it isnt lol...its just seen as a fball school thats OSU's rival</p>