<p>UChicago jumped from 15th in 2006 to 9th in 2007.</p>
<p>I'm surprised it jumped THAT much.</p>
<p>Apparently, their graduation and rentention ranking went UP from 20th, to 22nd. Who knows. Such a negligible increase in one factor could lead to a jump that significant! lol</p>
<p>When does the 2009 one come out?</p>
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Sorry to be nitpicky, but at first glance it looked like you had Cornell at #7 and I almost vomited on my keyboard.
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snobbery?</p>
<p>does anyone here get the full paying version of the rankings?</p>
<p>I bought the magazine... (yes, guilty as charged)...I heard the full premium version is definitely worth the buy because it has information that even the magazine doesn't have that is quite important.</p>
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UChicago jumped from 15th in 2006 to 9th in 2007.
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<p>UPenn jumped from 20th in 1990 to 4th in 2003.
Columbia? 18th in 1988 to 8th in 1989.</p>
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UPenn jumped from 20th in 1990 to 4th in 2003.
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<p>Not exactly a jump. Thirteen years constitutes a steady climb.</p>
<p>U.S</a>. News Rankings Through the Years</p>
<p>They change with the wind. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I'm wondering where WashU will end up or be this year.</p>
<p>University of North Dakota's hockey team will finally get them in the top 10.</p>
<p>U.S. news is a business, they change the ranks purely for people to buy their magazine each year.</p>
<p>I'm just waiting for the day Stanford kicks one of the "Big 3" out. Then the world will go into chaos.</p>
<p>^ yes! omg that would be great. </p>
<p>honestly, i wouldnt be surprised if princeton or harvard are paying us news to maintain their rankings. </p>
<p>you know what they say.
harvard kids write, why one day i will rule the world.
yale kids write, why i should rule the world.
princeton kids write, why daddy's money rules the world.
stanford kids write, why i DO rule the world.</p>
<p>I don't think rankings convey all that much (practical considerations taken into account, the top 10 are basically the same) - it's just lending legitimacy to school pride and adding stress to overachieving Asian students and parents.</p>
<p>However, for the sake of the people that really care about rankings and use them as the Bible of applying to college, I'm kind of worried about MIT. I'm not too sure it'll climb this year, but it's just a hunch. I don't think MIT plays the whole "college ranking" game well (not that it's important, but just saying...)</p>
<p>Oasis, I am in full agreement!</p>
<p>MIT, Caltech, H, P,S all seem so intent on doing the
right thing environment-wise and academics-wise I wonder
if there is an administrator somewhere charged with
"go fix the rankings". It does not seem to be so.</p>
<p>But as night certainly follows day with any ranking that
leads to brand perception (my media class propaganda)
manipulation of the reporting of the variables will occur.</p>
<p>For the liberal arts colleges, Swarthmore will be #1. Cuz I'm going there.</p>
<p>maybe a slight, tiny bias?</p>
<p>Anonymous91 wrote:</p>
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<p>I agree. It's a business and it's about selling magazines, not about true college quality.</p>
<p>This says it all: <a href="http://www.educationconservancy.org/smallposter.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.educationconservancy.org/smallposter.pdf</a></p>
<ol>
<li>Hahvahd</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yaaaylllllll</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>TIT (oh wait, MIT)</li>
<li>JewPenn</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Colombia</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>WashU!</li>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Brown (haha! :))</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Vandy</li>
<li>Emory </li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
</ol>
<p>Like someone else said, they don't normally change much...</p>
<p>Rice not in the top 15?! are you kidding me</p>
<p>My (baseless) predictions:</p>
<p>MIT up to 5/6-ish, Penn down to 6/7-ish. Duke down to 9 tied with Columbia, Chicago up to 8. Everything else stays the same.</p>
<p>i hope that yale goes up....</p>
<p>i hope that harvard goes up ....</p>
<p>because those are my favezz</p>