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It’s not a public service, it’s a business. You can’t resell the same thing every year if you don’t update it every year with enough changes to make it seem different.</p>
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Princeton does.(#1 overall, #10 undergrad engineering programs)
I imagine Columbia is too…(#4 overall, but I don’t have USNWR premium to see full undergrad engineering list).</p>
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<p>That is exactly what it is. They weigh the PA and HS scores to reflect the methodology criteria, and convert to a 100 scale. That is the one they screwed up for Stanford when Columbia jumped in the score.</p>
<p>What a bunch of HYP. Most of the top 25 are narcissistic lemmings; they think quite fondly of themselves and want people to consider it a privilege to spend a quarter of a million dollars or more on a college education of dubious value. They are essentially commercial brands, duking in out in a scramble for dollars, fawning over their reflection in USNWR, while all too often straying from their core constituency. I recall when the mission of most of these institutions was far more modest, to serve their students. Nowadays remote campuses and joint ventures in far-flung locales, sports programs and media contracts, overzealous alumni development offices, and even Washington lobbyists all compete for attention. The educational testing and college consulting industries are remoras along for the ride, and your dollars. Do not be fooled. This is big business preying on fear while consuming big dollars. Only a person of very low self-esteem need define his identity and self-worth by his alma mater’s position on the USNWR ranking.</p>
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<p>They weigh the PA and HS scores to reflect the methodology criteria, and convert to a 100 scale. That is the one they screwed up for Stanford when Columbia jumped in the score. </p>
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<p>Exactly.</p>
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<p>For the past 8 years, you haven’t had anything better to do with your time than to “beat your chest” and create over 13,000 posts asserting Stanford’s superiority over other great schools like Columbia, Chicago, which incidentally outrank Stanford in other rankings as well, like this one [QS</a> World University Rankings - Topuniversities](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012]QS”>QS World University Rankings 2012: Top Global Universities | Top Universities).
Surely, you can’t be that insecure about yourself , can you?</p>
<p><em>makes some popcorn</em></p>
<p>Haha, welcome to this forum, and finally becoming secure enough to add your first post … After lurking for eight years. Or did you decide to read all my posts in one sitting?</p>
<p>Either way, I look forward to read your next posts.</p>
<p>CC is always at its most fun in mid-September.</p>
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<p>Columbia’s undergrad engineering is ranked #20. tied with Duke and UCLA. Harvard is #23, tied with RPI, UCSD, U Maryland-College Park, U Minnesota-Twin Cities, USC, and U Washington.</p>
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<p>Disagreed:</p>
<p>[Leiter</a> Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Per Student Value of University Endowments…or the rich are even richer than you thought!](<a href=“http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/per-student-value-of-university-endowmentsor-the-rich-are-even-richer-than-you-thought.html]Leiter”>http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2012/07/per-student-value-of-university-endowmentsor-the-rich-are-even-richer-than-you-thought.html)</p>
<p><a href=“Office of Institutional Research | Brown University”>Office of Institutional Research | Brown University;
<p>cf., e.g., Duke,</p>
<p><a href=“http://ir.provost.duke.edu/facts/cds/Duke%20CDS_2011-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://ir.provost.duke.edu/facts/cds/Duke%20CDS_2011-2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>Other than making a news story the day they are published and perhaps helping to sell more papers, not sure what purpose they serve and how objective they are. Every year we seem to have the same discussion about college rankings.</p>
<p>Im currently at a jc & I want to choose the best school in regards to the education i will get. My goal is to be an SLP but i want the strongest foundation for my BA any advise as to what school to choose. Im debating between SFSU SJSU & CSUEB</p>
<p>No Reed in the LACs top 25?</p>
<p>Does anyone know why Colleges ranked between 12 and 15 have the same ranking as last year ?</p>
<p>What’s a Reed?</p>
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Reed refuses to participate in the US News’ rankings, and does not submit data to the company. To get back at Reed, it’s thought that the US News assigns it a much lower rank than it would otherwise have. </p>
<p>Oh and informative, Reed College is one of the most academically intense schools in the nation. Most people consider it a top 10 LAC.</p>
<p>If it doesn’t submit data it would be unranked</p>
<p>No. USNWR explicitly states that it handles schools that do not hand in data differently.</p>
<p>For everyone *****ing about Emory, it was a scandal restricted to the admission office and does not reflect badly on the quality of teaching and other metrics. The peer assessment numbers are still in the top 30, which I’m glad to see because it means officials at peer institutions don’t suffer from the same knee-jerk reactions that many CC posters do.</p>
<p>If anything, HARVARD should have dropped for a whopping 125 students caught cheating. Perhaps this news broke too recently, but we’ll see for next year’s rankings.</p>