US News 2010 Top 10 National Universities

College Search & Selection
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<p>Saw this in a Books a Million last night:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Princeton University</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
</ol>

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<p>Haha, that list is ugly. If it’s true many people will be angry that Duke dropped and Penn is on par with Stanford.</p>

<p>And I don’t see how you saw <em>only</em> the top ten in a book and not the rest of the rankings.</p>

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<p>its coming out in like 30 mins. chill bro.
we’ll all see :)</p>

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<p>this is the highest upenn will go though, because usnews will lose credibility if upenn goes higher than HYP.</p>

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<p>I’m a Columbia alum and was only really interested in the Lions. How many do you think you could remember the day after (in the correct order)?</p>

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<p>I’m seeing a trend of more and more ties to make buyers happy.</p>

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<p>for some reason the new rankings is not showing. maybe only prem accounts can view them?</p>

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<p>^Yeah I think at midnight, they’ll show it to the public. At least that’s what someone said on the other thread.</p>

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<p>Uh, folks–this is the 4th time in 8 years that US News has ranked Penn at #4, either tied with or ahead of Stanford, MIT, and/or CalTech:</p>

<p>[U.S</a>. News Rankings Through the Years](<a href=“http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:DjJZAS7ZGZcJ:chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities+chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]U.S”>http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:DjJZAS7ZGZcJ:chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities+chronicle.com/stats/usnews/index.php%3Fcategory%3DUniversities&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)</p>

<p>It ain’t exactly news anymore. :)</p>

<p>And the official rankings won’t appear on the US News web site until around midnight, tonight (just look at the US News home page and you’ll see the countdown clock).</p>

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<p>^Well, then it must mean something when so many still doubt that… JMHO.</p>

<p>And the coutdown clock official says negative numbers already. So technically they should be available.</p>

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<p>^ Look at the clock again. It’s counting down to midnight.</p>

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<p>^Interestingly, it still says negative numbers. Is it possible that it’s because I’m in Asia and it’s already past midnight? (Then they should really change that… It shouldn’t be too difficult.)</p>

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<p>^Definitely one of the most improved, considering it was consistently outside the top-10 until a little over a decade ago,</p>

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<p>But is it counting down (decreasing time)? Or up (increasing time)? Your location shouldn’t affect the countdown, it seems to me. :)</p>

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<p>It’s getting more negative; as in, -1 hr -> -2hr… Very interesting.</p>

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Well, US News has ranked Penn at 4-7 every year for 13 straight years (including this one), so the whole improvement thing is kinda becoming an old story–at least in terms of the US News ranking. :)</p>

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It was basically where Cornell is now then magically jumped to #7 in 98 where it’s basically been ever since (save some appearances as #4). Maybe whatever methodology they changed to ensure HYP were #1-3 and to keep Caltech from #1 also helped Penn stay solidly in line with Stanford, MIT, and Caltech.</p>

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<p>^ Penn’s actually been at #5 and #6 during that time, also (see the link in my post #9, above). But this now makes it 4 times at #4.</p>

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<p>So many Penn ■■■■■■ this time of year!</p>

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<p>so how would ure rankings look like?
i think its a pretty difficult job.</p>