<p>Awped, you ask who cares about UCSD?</p>
<p>try the 28,000 students that are currently attending the school</p>
<p>UCSD is one of the 20 schools with its seal at the top.</p>
<p>[ARWU</a> 2009](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp)</p>
<p>I think Brown will go up if only because it can’t go any lower. Its current ranking is just silly.</p>
<p>1 Harvard University
2 Princeton University
3 Yale University
4 California Institute of Technology
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Stanford University
8 University of Pennsylvania
8 Columbia University
8 University of Chicago
10 Duke University
10 Dartmouth College
12 Northwestern University
13 Johns Hopkins University
14 Cornell University
15 Brown University
15 Washington University in St. Louis
17 Emory University
17 Rice University
17 Vanderbilt University
20 University of Notre Dame
21 University of California–Berkeley
22 Carnegie Mellon University
23 Georgetown University
24 University of Virginia
25 University of California–Los Angeles
25 University of Southern California
25 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor </p>
<p>What are some other predictions?</p>
<p>Where is USC now?</p>
<p>I’m wondering where UIUC will be? I’m looking at it now…to start as a freshman for CS.</p>
<p>mani99,</p>
<p>USC is 26th, currently. </p>
<p>I really do love UIUC, but it’s just too rural for me. I really like the urban culture that bay area provides. But, I’ve always thought of UIUC to be among the elite privates. Also, I’m curious to see where they place. </p>
<p>Do you know how UIUC is doing in this economy?</p>
<p>We were there last week, it’s a beautiful campus…amazing new CS building. Its in a small town with population of 100,000 people with 40,000 additional students from UIUC. Lots of research going on in the Engg. schools…its doing pretty well. It has a very safe environment. I have USC and UCLA on my list…but for CS I think UIUC is ranked right on top after UC Berkeley and CMU.</p>
<p>As long as USNWR keeps using the “Single Sitting” SAT scores for publics like Berkeley, UCLA and Michigan, and continues using alumni giving rates, these Publics will remain arbitrarily suppressed by 2-3 spots in the ranking order.</p>
<p>Why would USC move up? What is it doing differently this year than in prior years? </p>
<p>I guess that question really applies to any school someone thinks will move up. I suspect UCLA moved up a couple of spots over the past 5 years b/c the stats for % Freshman returning, 4 yr. grad rate, and 6 year grad rate all moved up significantly over the past 5 years or so. Oh, plus USC keeps getting caught cheating and maybe the voters figure it applies to admissions data also… who knows? :)</p>
<p>1) Penn has nowhere to go but down.
2) Will Michigan drop even further?
3) Vandy, Rice and Brown look to move up.
4) Chicago will keep moving up since it’s starting to play the USNWR game very well.
5. Duke might drop out of the top 10.</p>
<p>UCB, UCLA, UCSD move down a couple of spots, as if most everything in California.</p>
<p>Way too early for this thread. Can we wait until the end of June at least?</p>
<p>Northwestern is currently tied with WUST at 12…where do think it will fall? </p>
<p>Vandy’s RD rate was at 13% this year and Brown was significantly more selective this year due to huge surge in applications; thus, I suspect both of these will move up.</p>
<p>Because of the economy in the state of CA and a host of other factors, does anyone think it’s possible UVa might surpass Berkeley as the #1 public school in the nation? Just curious.</p>
<p>And yes…I realize the rankings don’t mean a whole lot in the big scheme of things; they’re simply interesting that’s all.</p>
<p>“Because of the economy in the state of CA and a host of other factors, does anyone think it’s possible UVa might surpass Berkeley as the #1 public school in the nation? Just curious”</p>
<p>For undergrad it’s possible. As an overall university, never! Many on CC tend to forget that USNWR only ranks entire UNIVERSITIES as undergraduate institutions.</p>
<p>All the top publics (UCB, UCLA, UM, UVA, UNC) are going to move down, while privates will move up.</p>
<p>will usc surpass,equal ucla? thoughts</p>
<p>I’m sure they will. Then USNWR will find out after the fact that USC cooked their numbers. It seems that school likes to cheat to get ahead. Btw, the graduate school of engineering at USC dropped two places this year.</p>
<p>really? how does usc cheat to get ahead…</p>
<p>Deliberately reporting inaccurate figures pertaining to NAS faculty members in it’s college of engineering for starters.</p>