US News Rankings 2010 - Confirmed (Have Source)

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hey everyone, my mom's best friend works for US News, and through strings (my mom is one of those ranking-fanatics, <em>sigh</em>), my mother obtained the rankings early (apparently, they were established months ago, and most people that work at US News are able to get them), and I am here to relay them to you. I am not someone who cares deeply about them, but this is CC, so I figured you guys would care. I also saw the other FAKE thread, and it is incorrect. Only other information I found out was that the methodology is the same for figuring out the rankings. So, I proudly have them for you (warning: not too many significant changes):</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>Stanford University</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Emory University</li>
<li>University of California - Berkeley</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>University of Michigan - Ann Arbor</li>
</ol>

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<p>So your source is your mom?</p>

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<p>Next 25-75 please in National Universities rankings…thanks in advance. Just curious. And we will check out the published list and compare to this list to see how accurate your source is.</p>

<p>As an aside, I see if this is accurate it means that WashU’s tactics the last several years are paying off for them handsomely…cynical as it may be…</p>

<p>they have played the numbers games well…to the consternation of the thousands who ended up on their wait lists.</p>

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<p>…stop with these ranking leaks please… we will find out soon enough.</p>

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<p>Haha no clue why I found that comment so funny noobcake…
As for the rankings… I suppose we’ll see if he’s full of crap in T-minus 9 days.</p>

<p>(I predict an absurd amount of these kind of threads popping up in the next few days tho…)</p>

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<p>actually, it’s her mom’s friend.</p>

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<p>That’s funny, I’m your mom’s source.</p>

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<p>lol, just curious, do you have LAC’s?</p>

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<p>5 posts …</p>

<p>anyway who cares nothing’s going to shift significantly, and there isn’t much of a difference between a 4 and a 5 anyway</p>

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<p>lol, Brown in the top 15. lol</p>

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<p>Brown ■■■■■?^</p>

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<p>WUSTL was top 10 a few years ago, and the wait list doesn’t affect these rankings much at all.</p>

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<p>this list seems accurate - although anything heard through the grapevine is subject to suspicion for me…</p>

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<p>i mean no disrespect, but i can’t believe wustl is ahead of brown, nu, cornell, and jhu (which has a better med school). it’s the only glaring misplacement in my humble opinion.</p>

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<p>This is more credible than the last one. I’m on the verge of believing it, as it corresponds with my own predictions based on the statistics I’ve seen.</p>

<p>However, I’m not sold that it’s legit. But it does pass my credibility criteria:</p>

<ol>
<li>Chicago does not move down more than 1 spot.</li>
<li>Duke does not move down.</li>
<li>HYP are top 3.</li>
<li>No significant point shifts.</li>
</ol>

<p>Also, the OP actually has a post count greater than 1. It’s 5, but still… Like I said, I’m still not sold.</p>

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<p>USNWR is laughing all the way to the bank . . . does ANYBODY with an ounce of common sense really believe that this is how to choose a college or university? Sheesh . . .</p>

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<p>…Your mom goes to college.</p>

<p>(Let’s see if anyone gets that reference!)</p>

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<p>Yes, my mother’s friend is the “source.”</p>

<p>I have not seen the LAC rankings yet, but I think I might be able to get them through the same source if I ask…I will see in the coming days. I also did not get past the top 25; once again, I will see if I can get these.</p>

<p>Now, I realize of course that it is very understandable to not believe that these are real (I, too, would have been extremely skeptical), but they are real, and I don’t really have any other way to prove that they are real.</p>

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<p>UCLA slipped to No. 26 or ?</p>

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<p>OP, where is #23 on your ranking?</p>