University of Pennsylvania Ranked #83 on Forbes

<p>Sandwiched comfortably between Macalester College and Berea College. At least we're better than the 98th ranked Dartmouth, 104th ranked Duke, and 207th ranked Cornell!</p>

<p>Wow, Forbes... I used to think you were intelligent.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank_4.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/94/colleges-09_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank_4.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>***? That doesn’t make any sense.</p>

<p>haha wow yeah I saw that too. It’s ■■■■■■■■.</p>

<p>using results from “ratemyprofessor.com” is hilarious. I can’t believe they had the nerve to publish a 2nd ranking without drastically overhauling the methodology. pretty sad :frowning: you’d think they’d realize they were undermining their own ranking but putting schools like Penn and Dartmouth so obviously below what they should be!</p>

<p>For Penn in particular[and Chicago, although I didn’t look at where Chicago is but they use the same idea], we have Penn Course Review rather than the major use of Rate My Professor. I’m not sure how that affected the ratings.</p>

<p>Lets just Forbes is really dumb. I mean half of the colleges on there are like literally unknown.</p>

<p>We still beat Dartmouth and Cornell so it’s not <em>that</em> bad.</p>

<p>Just disregard Forbe’s ranking entirely. There is no reason why the university of florida should be above ivy-league / ivy-calibre schools. That alone completely dismantles Forbe’s credibility. End of discussion.</p>

<p>It must be some sort of joke.</p>

<p>^I thought it was, until they did it AGAIN. hahahah</p>

<p>Now I have to wonder if they ordered the list of billionaires correctly.</p>

<p>Complete nonsense. Just because Centre College had one Rhodes Scholar last year doesn’t make me even remotely want to apply there. No, I’m not going to apologize for what I just wrote.</p>

<p>XD
they also use cost of tuition as a large part of their methodology
which is why military academy and air force academy are so high ranked…</p>

<p>the only list that has any credibility is the list of billionaire universities, which Penn is 3rd after Hharvard and standford. this is the only important ranking.</p>

<p>^ lol. i dont know about billionaires but if they did a list of who has the highest percentage of millionaires i bet penn would win outright</p>

<p>take that transylvania university!</p>

<p>Yeah, I don’t think people looking to get into Wharton and business later are going to do a double take that Penn didn’t do so well on the Rhodes Scholar or Nobel Prize list. </p>

<p>Who’s Who in America is about as lame as it gets too. Don’t we get spam trying to sell us a spot on that list?</p>

<p>Screw this, I’m getting a lobotomy and transferring to West Point.</p>