<p>So rankings come out next Tuesday, August 17. To get ready, post your predictions for the top 25 national universities. Remember that (1) 2011 rankings will be based on 2009 data and (2) the methodology might've been changed to include HS counselors' ratings of schools in the "assessment" score.</p>
<p>just wait.</p>
<p>For reference, here are the schools in the top 25 in alphabetical order: [Best</a> Colleges Preview: Top 25 National Universities - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/09/best-colleges-preview-top-25-national-universities.html]Best”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/08/09/best-colleges-preview-top-25-national-universities.html).</p>
<p>My predictions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton/Yale</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Dartmouth/Duke</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>UChicago</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>WashU</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Cornell/Vanderbilt</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Wake Forest/USC</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Harvard 100</li>
<li>MIT 99.317</li>
<li>Princeton 99.317</li>
<li>Stanford 99.317</li>
<li>Yale 99.317</li>
<li>Caltech 99.2</li>
<li>Columbia 99.2</li>
<li>UPenn 98.92</li>
<li>Duke 97.4</li>
<li>Northwestern 97.4</li>
<li>UChicago 97.4</li>
<li>Brown 96.7</li>
<li>Dartmouth 96.62</li>
<li>Rice 96.62</li>
<li>Vanderbilt 95.88043</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins 95.88043</li>
<li>Cornell 95.88043</li>
<li>Emory 95.79</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon 94.1</li>
<li>Georgetown 94.1</li>
<li>University of Places in California 93.6021</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame 91.91</li>
<li>University of Virginia 91.91</li>
<li>Wake Forest 91.3</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis 90</li>
</ol>
<p>You heard it here first.</p>
<p>blade, you put Northwestern over Uchicago, wustl, and johns hopkins?</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Northwestern moves up 1 spot because it’s more popular among counselors, UChicago and WashU less so. I didn’t know what to do with JHU so I put it approximately where it was last year. I also moved up Columbia and Brown. These aren’t radical changes so I don’t know what you’re talking about.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University</li>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Vanderbilt University</li>
<li>Emory University</li>
<li>Rice University</li>
<li>University of California - Berkeley</li>
<li>University of Notre Dame</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>University of Southern California</li>
<li>University of California - Los Angeles</li>
<li>University of Virginia</li>
<li>Wake Forest University</li>
</ol>
<p>
I don’t think it will happen this year. But it happend not once but four times before when Northwestern was ranked 9th or 10th. Historically, it’s ranked above wustl and jhu more often than not.</p>
<p>I think all 27 schools should be ranked #1, end of arguements…lol</p>
<p>so the other USNWR thread is likely fake. keep posting your predictions and let’s see how many targets you hit.</p>
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<p>Where are these numbers from…</p>