US News Top 25 for 1991-2008

Colleges and Universities A-Z Dartmouth College
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<p>FYI - Rankings have not changed much over the past 18 years:</p>

<p>US News Top 25 for 1991-2008</p>

<p>Institution 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991</p>

<p>Harvard University 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1
Princeton University 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 4
Yale University 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 4 1 3 1 2 3 3 3 2 3
Stanford University 4 4 5 5 5 4 5 6 6 4 5 6 4 5 6 4 3 2
California Inst. of Technology 5 4 7 8 5 4 4 4 1 9 9 9 7 7 5 5 4 5
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology 7 4 7 5 4 4 5 5 3 4 6 5 5 4 4 5 6 6
Duke University 8 8 5 5 5 4 8 8 7 6 3 4 6 6 7 7 7 7
University of Pennsylvania 5 7 4 4 5 4 5 6 7 6 7 13 11 12 16 14 13 13
Dartmouth College 11 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 11 10 7 7 7 8 8 7 8 8
Columbia University 9 9 9 9 11 10 9 10 10 10 9 11 15 9 11 10 9 10
Northwestern University 14 14 12 11 11 10 12 13 14 10 9 9 13 14 13 13 14 23
University of Chicago 9 9 15 14 13 12 9 10 13 14 14 12 11 10 9 9 10 11
Washington University 12 12 11 11 9 12 14 15 17 16 17 17 20 20 18 20 18 24
Cornell University 12 12 13 14 14 14 14 10 11 6 14 14 13 15 10 11 12 9
Rice University 17 17 17 17 16 15 12 13 14 18 17 16 16 12 14 12 15 16
Johns Hopkins University 14 16 13 14 14 15 16 15 7 14 14 15 10 22 15 15 11 15
Brown University 14 15 15 13 17 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 9 11 12 18 17 12 19
Emory University 17 18 20 20 18 18 18 18 18 16 9 19 17 16 25 21
University of Notre Dame 19 20 18 18 19 18 19 19 19 18 19 17 18 19 25
University of California-Berkeley 21 21 20 21 21 20 20 20 20 22 23 27 26 23 19 16 16 13
Vanderbilt University 19 18 18 18 19 21 21 22 20 20 19 20 22 18 20 25 19
Carnegie Mellon University 22 21 22 22 23 21 23 23 23 25 23 28 23 24 24 19 24 22
University of Virginia 23 24 23 22 21 23 21 20 22 22 21 21 19 17 21 22 21 18
Georgetown University 23 23 23 25 23 24 23 23 23 20 21 23 21 25 17 17 19
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 25 24 25 22 25 25 25 25 25 25 23 24 24 21 23 24 22 21
University of California-Los Angeles 25 25 26 25 25 26 25 26 25 25 25 28 31 28 22 23 23 17
Wake Forest University 30 27 27 28 25 26 28 28 - - 25 - - - - - -
U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 27 27 29 29 28 28 25 27 24 27 25 27 - - - 25 20 -
Tufts University 27 27 28 27 28 28 29 29 25 23 22 25 - - - - -
University of Rochester - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 25 -</p>

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<p>Dartmouth has been ranked 9th most of the time. Interesting.</p>

<p>I am going to start Dart Rankings soon. US News is crap.</p>

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<p>I guess WashU is the fat kid who wins "most improved" at the reunion</p>

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<p>Wow, Georgetown just keeps sliding down and down. How the hell was Penn at 4 a bunch of times?</p>

<p>Dartmouth should be at number 5 or 6. These people need to learn how to distinguish undergraduate from graduate programs.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth doesn't get compensated for its greatest strengths. Undergrad focused metrics like endowment per student, %of classes taught by professors, spending on advising/ student grants, recruiting are not on the list. In my opinion Dartmouth is underrated on usnews and should be around 6ish...</p>

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<p>Does the ranking really matter? I mean if a student goes on to apply to a college just based on raking, its a moronic reason to apply.</p>

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<p>The only reason they matter is because they draw attention to schools.</p>

<p>I'll never hear the end of it from my Penn/Columbia/Chicago friends...("seeee, you should've gone to myyy school").</p>

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<p>Dartmouth is well respected in the education community. How much more attention are rankings going to draw?</p>

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<p>It's well respected in the educational community yes, but among the general public...it's not really known.</p>

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<p>True, I agree on that.</p>

<p>On a side note I agree with slipper. US News should consider all the factors while ranking colleges.</p>

<p>PS: Yanarchy are you '11?</p>

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US News should consider all the factors while ranking colleges.

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<p>Yes, but they're idiots and that would make things ten times more complicated. If they can barely get a couple factors straight, how're they going to handle all of them?</p>

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<p>haha As I posted before lets start Dart rankings :D</p>

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<p>If you think about it, Dartmouth has not lost any real ground. Last year, Dartmouth was tied for number 9 with two other schools, meaning that it was among the top 11 schools last year too.</p>

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<p>Let me jump in here....I dont go to Dartmouth nor does my kid. I know people who graduated Dartmouth and a few who got in, one of whom is attending this year.</p>

<p>If you peruse CC from one school to the next, you will find a smattering of wannabes, helicopter parents, narcissistic self obsessed kids, and people fishing for compliments (chances? I have a 4.8 gpa, scored 1570 SAT, can I get into Princeton?).</p>

<p>Its all nonsense. Any reasonable and professional college administrator will tell you that while they are flattered by rankings, they are really about as superficial and irrelevant as discussing tofu in a steak and chop house. </p>

<p>If you attend Dartmouth or were recently admitted, I congratulate you and wish you well. A superb school with special benefits and a great learning culture, topped off with excellent teaching professors. But is it alone? Is it "better than Williams or Amherst or whatever?" That is a fools errand.</p>

<p>You should be in school to learn and discern. Not judge and condescend. I can tell you as a professional that employers dislike people who are self obsessed and arrogant. Be proud of who you are and what you have accomplished, but do so with dignity and respect for others. You will find in the working world that there are brilliant kids at hundreds of other schools. They may not have been as lucky as you to get into Dartmouth, with all its wonderful traditions and excellence. They may not have been able to afford it. They may not have felt confident enough to apply. They may have had bad luck on the SAT. They may not have legacy. They may not have a myriad of things you have. </p>

<p>Yes, of course, the competitive spirit exists in all of us, and we root for the home team, so to speak.</p>

<p>I can tell you that my kid didnt apply to Dartmouth. It was a likely reach for her, but not a ridiculous reach. She was accepted at several prestigious schools and settled on a match school that was an excellent fit for her personality, her interests, its location, and other factors (religion being one of them.)</p>

<p>At most colleges there is a plethora of kids who scored above 1450 on their SAT's. You chose Dartmouth and Dartmouth chose you and that is a good thing. Be happy, be proud, but please don't be judgmental of others.</p>

<p>I know, its sort of fun to poke at schools you compete with. But to worry and fret over the silly and superficial USNWR rankings is really beneath your academic acumen and your personhood.</p>

<p>More than 30 years ago, working in Washington DC in a prestigious location doing some heady work, I was once reminded of the wisdom it takes NOT to judge a book by its cover. A man I worked with was from Tennessee. He went to UT. We sort of snickered behind his back. But came one day and he amazed us with his incredible work ethic and brilliant ideas. He outshined everyone in the group, including some notable Ivy graduates, a Georgetown and GWU graduate etc.</p>

<p>If you wish to represent your school well and support its stellar reputation, then do so with compassion and respect for others. There are over 3,000 colleges in the United States, many of them teaching much the same courses and using much the same textbooks. There are absolutely brilliant professors all over the place. Kenyon, for example, is widely regarded as a superb school for English Lit majors and prospective writers. Hollins College in Virginia has produced several award winning authors.</p>

<p>I wish you all very well and hope that when you graduate you will respected for the person you have become while at Dartmouth. Congratulations.</p>