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Did you just put Georgetown above Berkeley? That’s going out on quite a limb, I think. </p>
<p>I also have a hard time seeing Caltech and MIT edging out Stanford, and there being no ties. That said, you should probably bump Dartmouth ahead of WUSTL and JHU.</p>
<p>With the new additions to the USNWR formula, I think WUSTL and CMU will drop (primarily because of the inclusion of yield rate) and Brown will rise (thanks to the introduction of counselors’ ratings).</p>
<p>Neither of those will be added to this year’s rankings. US News is considering adding those factors to future rankings.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t sound like they’ve given a definitive answer one way or the other yet…</p>
<p>[Your</a> Thoughts-and Our Responses-on College Rankings Changes - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/06/10/your-thoughts-and-our-responses-on-college-rankings-changes.html]Your”>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/06/10/your-thoughts-and-our-responses-on-college-rankings-changes.html)</p>
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<p>2011 *edition *= this August. So, they might add counselor rankings and yield rate, as well as putting more weight on predicted graduation rate. Or some combination of the three. You would think they’d know by now if they’re including them or not, but I haven’t seen a clear indication.</p>
<p>^^how does the yield rate work?</p>
<p>“Watch this blog prior to the launch of the new Best Colleges rankings for details on methodology and presentation changes in the new edition of the rankings.”</p>
<p>No mentioning of introduction on any specific new criteria(s) being added by Morse?! </p>
<p>Link: [New</a> Best Colleges Rankings Are Coming Soon - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/07/22/new-best-colleges-rankings-are-coming-soon.html]New”>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/07/22/new-best-colleges-rankings-are-coming-soon.html)</p>
<p>Bowdoin is breaking top 4.</p>
<p>It would be very interesting if HYP were no longer the top three and were replaced with SMC (in that order)</p>
<p>let’s go jhu!! :]</p>
<p>I still don’t get how Penn makes it into the top 20.</p>
<p>^ Because it has a second-rate undergraduate program, a second-rate medical school, a second-rate business school, and a fourth-rate law school.</p>
<p>^ second-rate business school?</p>
<p>^^Obvious sarcasm, I should think. Penn med is well regarded, Penn law is T-14, Wharton is Wharton, and though Penn undergrad doesn’t make it onto the US News list, neither does Harvard or Columbia.</p>
<p>my predictions:
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
</ol>
<p>RML, I hate to say it, but with the new methodology, Berkeley most likely won’t go up in the rankings, but go down :(</p>
<p>and i hate to say cornell won’t be ranked both 13th and 15th.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins should be above Berkeley.</p>
<p>Add WashU, delete Notre Dame.</p>
<p>My predictions (I’ll do top 50)</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cal tech</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>JHU</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>WashU</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>ND</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>CMU</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>UCB</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li>Wake Forest</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>William and Mary</li>
<li>Brandeis</li>
<li>BC</li>
<li>Lehigh</li>
<li>Rochester</li>
<li>GT</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>UIUC</li>
<li>Washington</li>
<li>Case </li>
<li>RPI</li>
<li>UCD</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>PSU</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Miami</li>
<li>Tulane</li>
</ol>
<p>Cal tech and Chicago probably won’t drop that much, but who knows what USN will do.</p>
<p>“I still don’t get how Penn makes it into the top 20” </p>
<p>I still don’t get how people can be so ignorant.</p>