<p>lol. He’s now going to get into a fake argument with himself over who is a better poster.</p>
<p>(feeding the ■■■■■…)</p>
<p>I think JohnAdams is a much more articulate poster. From the way you speak, there is no way Princeton or Stanford would even let you sniff their application (bwaahhhaaahhhaaaaaa).</p>
<p>If you’re truly the best and brightest ND has to offer (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), then the more you post, the more you discredit your argument that ND does not “take a backseat” to the Ivies.</p>
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<p>You’re entitled to your opinion. I disagree.</p>
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<p>I never said or even suggested with which school(s) I am affiliated (or not).</p>
<p>ahhh, same lines, same modus operandi (going back and finding old quotes to use). You should try to be less transparent.</p>
<p>It’s really not that hard to use the CC search function. Do you need a quick tutorial?</p>
<p>“I never said or even suggested with which school(s) I am affiliated”</p>
<p>So why don’t you tell us, we are all just dying to know. We are on pins and needles. Mississippi State? Bob Jones U? Liberty? Phoenix? Whatsamatta U?</p>
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<p>You’re welcome, UCB. While I never left entirely, it is probably wise to stick to what I know and what is worth sharing. By the way, has RML taken a leave of absence?</p>
<p>^ I dunno… maybe he’s getting ready for summer sessions at Berkeley. Everyone can attend then. </p>
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Gotcha…just haven’t had the opportunity to discuss our favorite component of the USNWR ranking recently. ;)</p>
<p>Do you think GW will jump into the top 50.</p>
<p>[Class</a> of 2014’s yield rate highest in recent history - News](<a href=“http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2010/05/17/News/Class.Of.2014s.Yield.Rate.Highest.In.Recent.History-3919836.shtml]Class”>http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2010/05/17/News/Class.Of.2014s.Yield.Rate.Highest.In.Recent.History-3919836.shtml)</p>
<p>At 31%, the Class of 2014 has the lowest acceptance rate in GW history.</p>
<p>The average SAT jumped up 5% to 1960</p>
<p>2014’s yield is also the highest in recent memory</p>
<p>@bosoxnm3:</p>
<p>There are many, many schools that had record low admit rates and high yields this year.
Don’t worry about the rankings, GW is a very fine school (top 50 or otherwise).</p>
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Re your statement in # 111,</p>
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<p>I’d love to see how you evaluated the quantity and content of over 50 colleges. Heck, I’ll settle for 5 colleges. How did you make these judgments of School A vs B vs C vs D vs E? Also, when did you do your comparison?</p>
<p>Btw, in reference to your comments on facilities, I know that you don’t live in the USA, but do you realize that a lot of schools have nice buildings these days. All across America, the places with the most constant banging and clanging of construction over the past decade plus have been America’s college campuses…at least until those endowments got smacked around in the 2008/09 financial crisis. </p>
<p>As for the reference (again) to your experience in the 1990s (it’s dated and really not very relevant) and your claim that it has gotten more intimate, </p>
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<p>the USNWR Faculty Resources measurement, showing a drop from 35th to 74th among national universities, would indicate that U Michigan has lagged other colleges over this period. I’m not saying it cannot have gotten better, but others have outpaced it. Sorry.</p>
<p>Re your most important criteria—faculty—departmental rankings are based on the research/publication work that goes on and its benefits are enjoyed primarily at the graduate level. Teaching proficiency is different and not measured by any ranking done within academia. Ask current students/recent grads about faculty quality and you’ll often get an answer totally opposite to the viewpoints of research-focused academia. If you’re paying the bill and don’t plan on a career in academia, who would you listen to?</p>
<p>Conclusion from all of this: most of America knows U Michigan as one of the nation’s top public universities. However, in comparison to America’s top UNDERGRADUATE colleges, it’s not overly selective, its class sizes and proximity to faculty is relatively unimpressive, and its resources/willingness to spend on undergrads lags many colleges around the USA, public and private alike.</p>
<p>does anybody see BC moving from 34? any chance of getting in the top30</p>
<p>Which top15 colleges do you guys think will move next year and why? This is really interesting.</p>
<p>johnnybegood, and the reason that you believe that you are a better poster is?</p>
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<p>correct me if I am wrong, but won’t the USNWR that is issued in Aug 2010 be based on stats for the class of 2013, not 2014?</p>
<p>do they not lag one year in the stats that they use such as acceptance rates and yields?</p>
<p>just<em>the</em>facts, sorry by I am not johnnybegood. Now, for the more important stuff:</p>
<p>is there any particular reason why you have failed to let the readers of this website know that you work for Tufts University?</p>
<p>You continue to claim that Tufts is better than many colleges because of its relatively high SAT scores, yet it is obvious that Tufts fudges its SAT scores by the way it reports its SAT/ACT scores, just like Notre Dame.</p>
<p>What most people want to know about Tufts (and what is truly incredible and frankly, impossible) is why, out of thousands upon thousands of students at Tufts, Tufts offically states that NOT ONE STUDENT has ever submitted both the SAT and ACT scores. Why is this?</p>
<p>kind of strange, don’t you think, since CC is littered with Tufts students that have posted that they have submitted both SAT’s and ACT’s to Tufts.</p>
<p>Come clean son, for the details will come out sooner or later</p>
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<p>^ What’s your take on Penn this year?</p>
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<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Penn?</li>
<li>Stanford
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<p>^ No, that’ll be next year. :p</p>
<p>But I WILL go out on a limb for THIS year and predict that Amherst will be one of the top 3 LACs. ;)</p>
<p>So when we talk about USNWR rankings that are going to be issued in Aug. 2010 (“the 2011” rankings), we are really talking about rankings using current peer perceptions with one year old acceptance and yield rates.</p>
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<p>Yield rates aren’t a component of the selectivity rating and as far as I know aren’t factored into the rankings.</p>