<p>Tulane should move up considerably. The current admissions numbers being used are the worst following Katrina. These numbers will be replaced by the best in the history of the school. 17% drop in acceptance rate with much higher test scores and GPA’s. It should result in a nice little bump.</p>
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Keep in mind that the 2010 ranking uses the class of 2012 data. Any admissions increase this year will not be reflected in the ranking.</p>
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USNWR will make the biggest leap…in profits. As always.</p>
<p>Minnesota jumped 10 spots last year to number 61, so I’m hoping they can break into the 50’s this year. And hopefully, they’ll be able to claim a spot in the top 50 in the next few years. </p>
<p>Florida State is currently at number 102, but I’d be willing to bet they crack the top 100 this time. I’m also hoping that some of the California schools(Davis, Irvine, etc…) fall back a little; it’s not fair to have that many top 50 schools haha.</p>
<p>Hopefully, the top 50:</p>
<p>The perennial top 5
1 - Harvard
2 - Yale, Princeton, Stanford
5 - MIT</p>
<p>The super elite
6 - Caltech, UPenn, Columbia
9 - Chicago, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown
13 - Hopkins, Cornell, Northwestern, UC Berkeley
17 - Rice, Notre Dame, WUSL
20 - Emory, Vanderbilt, Michigan, Virginia, Georgetown, CMU</p>
<p>Elite
26 - Tufts, UCLA, Wake Forest
29 - USC, William & Mary, NYU, UNC-Chapel Hill
33 - Brandies, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Lehigh, UCSD, Wisconsin, CWRU</p>
<p>Excellent
40 - UC Davies, UIUC, Washington, Texas-Austin
44 - UC Irvine, UCSB, Resselear, Rochester, Penn State, Florida, Yeshiva</p>
<p>RML,
In the last undergraduate rankings SC was ranked above Wake Forest and Tufts. In 2008 their admit rate went down, applications went way up, GPA up, alumni gifts up and class size continues to go down. SAT scores were up as well. Faculty continues to improve and win more awards. In the criteria U.S. News uses it should not go two places down in the rankings.</p>
<p>^ Which school are you talking about, U of Southern California?</p>
<p>I find very little fault in RMLs list.</p>
<p>RML, I’d drop Brown down to 13 and Hopkins down to 17, other than that it looks good</p>
<p>I’m curious what the LAC rankings will look like…</p>
<p>Wesleyan had a large increase in applications and may be up a notch or two.</p>
<p>RML no Tulane?</p>
<p>luckie Starchild wrote:</p>
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<p>but, probably not this year. All of USN&WR college stats are delayed by (at least) a year.</p>
<p>Does anyone think that UW Madison will move up or down?</p>
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How about all the endowment stats? Will they be June 30, 2009 numbers?</p>
<p>I think NYU should increase in rankings. I would guess it entering the top 30, but I am bias I guess because I am in love with NYU. The acceptance rate did drop 10% from last year, so you never know. The new acceptance rate is about 24% and almost 15% for Stern and even less for Tisch.</p>
<p>Luckie Starchild wrote:</p>
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<p>No way. We’ll be lucky if the endowment stats are as current as June 30, 2008. Take my word for it, this year’s USN&WR rankings will be the LEAST significant in its twenty year history simply because so much has changed since they stopped collecting data, probably some time in Fall 2008.</p>
<p>yeah it’s kinda like an academic 9/11 as far as colleges are
concerned. A coupla years from now we might begin to see
some new patterns on usnews</p>
<p>Well, like another poster said, last year they used Class of 2011 data, so this year they’ll be using 2012 data. I know Georgetown’s acceptance rate dropped 3-4 percentage points between those two years, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it went up a spot or two.</p>
<p>"USNWR will make the biggest leap…in profits. As always. " </p>
<p>I couldnt agree more. Now begins the annual flight of the swallows back to the USNWR rankings…and the nervous neurotics who feed upon it as if it really means anything or somehow gives them a badge of superiority over some other person at another college, or perhaps a better parking spot at the mall…I dunno.</p>
<p>We all have some curiosity and typically root for our alma mater or that of our children. Its just a marketing game people.</p>
<p>Guys, from what I know, selectivity rank constitutes to only about 15% of the total criteria. and this 15% is divided into 3 parts. 50% for SATs scores. 40% for GPA. and only 10% for acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Please verify on this, cause I may be wrong on this one too.</p>