<p>Any chances we will get a preview of the top 25 national universities ?</p>
<p>I’m going to out on a limb and say the top [on no order] will be</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
princeton
MIT
Stanford
Columbia
UPenn
Dartmouth
Duke
Chicago
CalTech
Brown
Cornell
Hopkins
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
WashU
Northwestern
Rice
Georgetown</p>
<p>will be top 20</p>
<p>Emory
CMU
UCB
UVA
USC</p>
<p>will round out the top 24</p>
<p>On the bubble: UCLA, Wake, Tufts</p>
<p>basically no real jumps going on here</p>
<p>ACtually, might as well order them</p>
<p>1) Harvard
2) Princeton
3) Yale
4) MIT
5) Stanford
6) Caltech
7) UPenn
8) Columbia
9) Dartmouth
10) Chicago
11) Duke
12) Northwestern
13) Brown
14) Wash U
15) Hopkins
16) Vanderbilt
17) Cornell
18) Rice
19) Notre Dame
20) Georgetown</p>
<p>I’m expecting a lot of ties…just was too lazy to list them</p>
<p>Predictions:</p>
<p>University of Florida will make a leap into the mid to low 40’s i.e. under 40% acceptance rate for the first time and increasing tuition costs.</p>
<p>Harvard will remain the lone #1</p>
<p>Yale ties or jumps Princeton</p>
<p>Cal Tech falls</p>
<p>Ohio State falls into the 60’s</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is on the top-10 bubble</p>
<p>USC declines, definitely out of the top 25</p>
<p>University of Miami declines, outside of the top 50</p>
<p>HYSP will still be the top, likely in that order. At the bottom, Cal will drop, USC will rise, UCLA will fall out of the top 25, Michigan will enter the top 25, and Tufts will knock out Wake Forest.</p>
<p>Vandy will not be on the top-10 bubble yet.</p>
<p>^they will, at least 12-14, admissions rate took a nose dive this year, do you agree with everything else i posted?</p>
<p>Ummm… you do know the list is out, don’t you?</p>
<p>not the 2012 one? september 13th</p>
<p>The list comes out on Tuesday.</p>
<p>@amarty, they use 2010 data, not 2011. Or some other previous year. </p>
<p>And, I can’t see vandy jumping cornell, brown, jhu or wustl. </p>
<p>I agree with everything else though.</p>
<p>@newuser I believe they use the previous years data, at least it says that on the us news website, for example I applied to colleges last year, 2010-2011 therefore, my data should be used.</p>
<p>“Ummm… you do know the list is out, don’t you?”</p>
<p>Haha, trying to torture the gullible?</p>
<p>@amarty112 lol i think USC will rise and everyone else on this thread seems to agree… it was featured as the “hottest school of the decade” and with it’s recent campaign to raise $6 billion of donations will be a significant contribution to the school :)</p>
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<li><p>US News uses admission data from the cycle preceding the most recent one. In other words, the new edition will use the acceptance rates from 2010.</p></li>
<li><p>Acceptance rates have very little impact on an institution’s overall score in US News’ formula. To say that Vanderbilt will rise to the top 10 because its acceptance rate has gone down is ludicrous.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I agree that USC will rise, eh!</p>
<p>@amarty112,</p>
<p>“Ohio State falls into the 60’s”</p>
<p>I hope not!! ;-)</p>
<p>Cornell is in the “Top 10 list” For all three applicable lists previewed so far: Best Value, best undergrad business, best engineering. Hope they are able to stay in the top 15 this year :)</p>
<p>“University of Florida will make a leap into the mid to low 40’s i.e. under 40% acceptance rate for the first time and increasing tuition costs.”</p>
<p>amarty112, the 2010 admissions data is available at the NCES web site, which US News cross-references with university-provided CDS data. You better believe after Bernie “Big Mac” Machen’s famous peer score submission and UF Law school’s recent statistical “oversight” in data provided to US News, they will be checking the info out of Gainesville real good. Per NCES, UF’s admission rate for 2010 is 43%, which compares to UMiami’s 2010 rate of 39% admission. Perhaps you got these two mixed up?</p>
<p>general prediction:
big ten schools again fall, ivy league schools are again overrated. i bet i’m right on!</p>
<p>I predict Bowling Green will make it into the top 10.</p>
<p>If everyone believes that USC will move up again, will it tie or surpass Cal? Last year everyone was expecting USC to tie with UCLA, but they ended up surpassing them by 2 spots. Thoughts?</p>