<p>Any predictions for the top 10? Also, any big jumpers or fallers?</p>
<p>Personal prediction-- no school in the top 25 moves more than 2 spots, no school in the top 12 moves more than 1 spot, very few schools in the top 50 move at all.</p>
<p>I think things will change in another year or two because of either 1) the effects of the financial crisis affecting the numbers which are often old in these reports or 2) a change in methodology to force some movement to sell more magazines.</p>
<p>haven’t there already been several threads concerning this? Personally, I haven’t seen or heard anything dramatic from any school in the top 15 to let one make a jump more than 3 spots but it’d certainly be interesting and make for good forum discussion if something like that did happen. otherwise, we’d just have to wait till next year for something interesting.</p>
<p>I’d say Cornell breaks top 10. GO BIG RED</p>
<p>I would predict many changes simply do to the economic climate. Many private schools had the number of applications decrease while State schools had their applications increase dramatically. This year and next will simply not be true indicators.</p>
<p>^^^This year’s ratings are based on data from the school year 2008-2009. What happened in this admission cycle will not be reflected at all in this year’s issue.</p>
<p>does anyone know the exact day they are released?
I say its going to be:
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Penn
Columbia
Caltech
Cornell
Duke
Brown</p>
<p>All the schools that I’m interested in applying to will fall in position</p>
<p>y0rker- you expect Brown to jump that much?</p>
<p>good job of running down a list of all the ivies plus an additional school or two.</p>
<p>this is as close as it’s going to get, i think…</p>
<p>1.harvard
2.yale
2.princeton
4.stanford
5.mit
6.caltech
7.chicago/columbia/dartmouth
10.duke/penn</p>
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USNWR has a count down timer on its site … right now it’s ticking 9 days 21 hrs 36 min and 1 sec.</p>
<p>Right about this time of year the actual rankings are “leaked” by an insider and posted here on CC. Last year the leaker was 100% correct. The magazine publication followed a week or so later. So the leaker is due out to post here on CC very, very soon.</p>
<p>Not that USNWR rankings matter. Because they don’t.</p>
<p>Well, they do matter. Thousands of ill-informed high school students base their college aspirations largely on these rankings every year. I, however, do agree that they “don’t matter” in the sense that they aren’t an accurate representation of the educational quality that these schools provide if that’s what you mean.</p>
<p>The magazine hit the stands usually a couple days ahead of the online release.</p>
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<p>What about UChicago? (although it was not in the top 15 in 2007)</p>
<h1>16 in 2007</h1>
<h1>9 in 2008</h1>
<p>+6 spots in one yr. </p>
<p>Now Chicago is highly respected on this forum when before, it was chided because of it’s high acceptance rate, tough workload, graduate focus etc…</p>
<p>Dagger: I think we are on the same page, my friend. What I was saying is they “dont matter” with respect to educational quality or the college mission of graduating successful and productive young adults into society at large who can make a difference in this world, not just how much money they will make. But you are correct that too many people make snap judgements, sometimes their final decision on where they will attend college, based on USNWR rankings.</p>
<p>It would be disingenuous to suggest that colleges don’t care. There are plenty of threads about that on CC. But just the same, most college administrators will tell you that while they monitor those rankings and always seek to improve their benchmark of excellence, the bottom line is they also despise them for being superficial and which unfairly malign the quality of hundreds of schools who don’t fit into the elite ranks. </p>
<p>Not to besmerch those who do make it there, such as Harvard et al. I tip my hat to them. But the mission of this website should be, in my humble opinion, to help students of every caliber and classrank to find the best school choices for them on a holistic level: academic, social, financial etc. </p>
<p>Its my rant. So sorry about that. To be honest, I am just as “curious” as the next person to see who is “on the move” up or down. But its more than just the top 20 schools. Its more like the top 100. And I love the story of the underdog, or the story of the jewel in the rough, or hidden (less well known) colleges that are just fabulous institutions of higher education, even if their student body profile is not 1600 SAT’s or 4.0 UW gpa’s.</p>
<p>I have to admit, as stupid as it sounds, I’m giddy with excitement haha. Lets admit it, if you attend a Top 20, you’re counting down the days. I have a feeling Cornell (my school) is moving up and maybe Brown as well, as Penn and Northwestern move down</p>
<p>does anyone know the breakdown of how the rankings are determined? I know Peer Assessment counts for like 25%, is that right? but what are the other factors and how much do they count for (acceptance rate, faculty, etc.)</p>
<p>If the formula for calculating the rankings stays the same, I doubt there will be much significant movement at all. If I were to predict, I would say Cornell moves up 1, Penn moves up 1, Duke back 1, Vandy up 1, Emory back 1.</p>
<p>i wanna see berkeley and michigan move up.
and lol at 7 out of 8 ivies in the top 10</p>