US News sending a message?

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<p>For months, I have used US News as a trustworthy companion aiding me in my college search process... but now I no longer know whether I can trust this source of information.</p>

<p>If you look in the USNews "America's Best Colleges" 2007 ed., you'll see that the top six national universities are Princeton, Harvard, Yale, CalTech, MIT, and Stanford. Now, if you order these colleges from highest to lowest by 25-75 percentile SAT scores using overall rank as a tie-breaker, you'll see it goes in the order:</p>

<p>CalTech: 1470-1580
Harvard: 1400-1580
Yale: 1400-1580
MIT: 1430-1570
Princeton: 1380-1560
Stanford: 1360-1550</p>

<p>Now, if you take the first letter of each of these Universities' names, you see that the resulting acronym is:</p>

<p>CHYMPS</p>

<p>That's right. CHYMPS. Simply a coincidence? I think not.</p>

<p>US News quite obviously views college applicants as nothing more than CHYMPS... monkeys swinging around in the dark, mysterious jungle of adcoms and extracurriculars.</p>

<p>Even more compelling is the fact that when you look at the Universities ranked 7-12, you immediately notice that when ranked by financial resources in reverse order, using least percent of classes over 50 students as the tie-breaker, it spells out CC DUDU.</p>

<p>That's right. CC DUDU. College Confidential = DUDU. Now how many other "coincidences" do I need to explain before you realize that US News is in fact opposed to the whole college admissions process in general?</p>

<p>I simply don't feel that anyone should trust their college future in the hands of such a sinister publication.</p>

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<p>haha.</p>

<p>you're definitely one of my favorite members of this site.</p>

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<p>^^</p>

<p>Agreed. That AA thread = absolutely amazing.</p>

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<p>HAHA, wow.</p>

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<p>I am recommending this thread.</p>

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<p>LMAO!!!!</p>

<p>Face it ya'll, we're chimps that spend hours on college confidential, which is dudu.</p>

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<p>lol nice</p>

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<p>Ya' know, we're all just taking your word on this. Did anyone check out whether the words he says are spelled out are true? Hell, it could be something like YOU ARE THE DEVIL 666, or something like that.</p>

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<p>The last time I checked "chimps" was spelled with an "i" and not a "y."</p>

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<p>But the original spelling of Elihu Yale's last name was "Iale," back in The Old Country. So it does spell CHIMPS. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>this is fabulous.</p>

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<p>posting in legendary topic</p>

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<p>Ohmigosh guys.</p>

<p>If you add up the number of letters in all of those schools that aren't in California, it comes out to be 23!</p>

<p>Harvard = 7
Yale = 4
Princeton = 9
MIT = 3</p>

<p>7 + 4 + 9 + 3 = 23</p>

<p>I'm scared.</p>

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<p>The problem with the number 23 seems to be the fact that those who claim the number 23 seems to add in numerous conditions to make it true.</p>

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<p>interesting... how long did this take u to figure this out?</p>

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<p>Whoever has enough free time to come up with this thread is a CHYMP who's going to be in deep DUDU if he doesn't get off CC.</p>

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<p>I think this thread was meant as a joke....</p>

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<p>you REALLY have too much time on your hands.</p>

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<p>Monkey C(C), monkey DU(DU)..</p>

<p>=O</p>

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<p>this is so mcuh crap , sto pthe conspiracy theories</p>