<p>Yea I think Tufts engineering might be behind the UsNews top 15 engineering and then some....</p>
<p>What about Notre Dame? Shouldn't Notre Dame be dropped as a so-called "top school?" I mean, it may be a great school, but it doesn't seem to be one of those drool schools. Am I completely off base here?</p>
<p>i sorta thought the same thing katdc87...</p>
<p>Yes, you are completely off base. It's got a big drool quotient. Even if it sucked in academics, the campus alone would qualify it as a drool school.</p>
<p>Maybe Notre Dame should be dropped off too then...</p>
<p>William and Mary should be on the list. Of course I'm biased because I'm going there.</p>
<p>Let's just keep it straight to the really top colleges. MIT, CIT, Stanford, Duke, JHU, Gtown, Chicago all deserve to be there. CMU, Vanderbilt, Rice, ND I'm quite uncertain. Maybe all the state schools there too (UVA, UCB, Michigan, UCLA, UNC). But except those I really don't think should be there. I'm getting an impression that they're where ivy rejects go to.</p>
<p>Tufts should definately be there.</p>
<p>Why should any other school definitely be there? At least say why...This is turning into American Idol here.</p>
<p>Because this is a discussion board, and if any school is garnering this amount of interest, it should have it's own section.</p>
<p>Just take the Us News Top 25 minus the 8 Ivies and drop UNC.</p>
<p>^^OK. So its not the Top Universities, its a popularity contest. Perhaps it should be renamed from Top Universities to Popular Universities. I'm good with that too.</p>
<p>As much as people love bashing USNews, its pretty accurate. You can debate the particular ranking of each school but the top 25 schools ranked by USNews are more-or-less the top 25 universities in the country (without counting LACs). People who are saying Tufts should be a top 20 school (what schools would it replace?). Also, if you are going to make this claim show proof. Just because you are a student there doesn't mean it should be added.</p>
<p>Duke?! Overrated??? </p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Anyone else thinks Deep Springs should be added there? :p</p>
<p>"Anyone else thinks Deep Springs should be added there?"</p>
<p>lol, imagine how dead that board would be</p>
<p>Does anyone know what criteria CC uses to decide which schools deserve "Top University" status?</p>
<p>"Does anyone know what criteria CC uses to decide which schools deserve "Top University" status?"</p>
<p>not sucking</p>
<p>everything up to and including NYU</p>
<p>I think we should wait until the august usnews rankings come out, and then reform the CC Top Universities based on that, simply because I think several colleges will go up (i.e NYU), and because Tufts will probably stay the same or climb up a spot or two, and we'll have a better idea of what the new top universities list should be.</p>