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because there’s not a whole lot of other [popular] rankings.
public schools are at a disadvantage because the professor/student ratio is low, alumni giving % is low, SAT scores aren’t super-scored, a higher number and % of students drop out, etc…</p>
<p>if anything, pay attention to the peer assessments :P</p>
<p>I just revised my ranking. Berkeley moved down a few places due to the inclusion of WSJ data, but it still is in the top 10, tied with Caltech and Dartmouth at #9. </p>
<p>Here’s the criteria:</p>
<p>30% - School Prestige
*10% - Ranking of the Best Colleges (National Colleges Ranking)
*10% - Peer Assessment Score
*10% - Best Colleges: High School Counselor Rankings of National Universities</p>
<p>25% - Teaching/Instructional Quality
*10% - Best Undergraduate Teaching (US News)
*10% - Student Selectivity Ranak (US News)
*5% - Graduation Rate (WM)</p>
<p>20% - Quality of Products
*10% - Forbes Payscale
*5% - WSJ Ranking
*5% - THES Employer Review</p>
<p>15% - Faculty Caliber
*10% - Washington Monthly Producing cutting-edge scholarship & PhDs
*5% - Shanghai’s Academic Ranking Quality of Faculty</p>
<p>10% - Financial Resources
*5% - Endowment Fund
*5% - WM Research Expenditures</p>
<p>Here’s the Ranking:</p>
<p>-On the league of their own
97.45 Stanford
96.95 Harvard
96.95 Princeton
96.45 Yale
95.80 MIT</p>
<p>-Super Elite Group
90.55 Duke
90.50 Penn
90.10 Columbia
89.65 Caltech
89.65 Dartmouth
89.65 Berkeley
89.45 Chicago
88.05 Brown
88.05 Cornell</p>
<p>-Very Elite Group
86.25 JHU
85.55 Northwestern
84.70 Michigan
83.95 WUSL
83.80 Notre Dame
83.10 UCLA
82.75 Rice
81.45 Georgetown
81.10 UVA</p>
<p>-Elite Group
80.70 Emory
80.55 CMU
80.50 Vanderbilt</p>
<p>-Heading towards Elite Group (Up and Coming Elite)
79.35 USC
78.25 Tufts
78.05 UNC
76.35 NYU
75.10 Wake</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/780850-best-us-colleges-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/780850-best-us-colleges-7.html</a></p>
<p>Most rankings consider endowments in their criteria. Public universities don’t usually get endowments, so naturally it favors private schools. </p>
<p>There are several articles on this topic, actually, that you can Google if you’d like.</p>
<p>you shouldnt include the rankings of WSJ because only a select group of post-undergraduate institutions were chosen and not necessarily the highest ranking institutions</p>
<p>^ I agree with you mikecerang 101%. However, i did it upon the insistent of some CC members who were from private schools. WSJ is one of the most ridiculous ranking I’ve seen in my entire life.</p>
<p>ESPN Ranking Cal is 4th.
Complete Rankings »
ESPN.com’s Power Rankings
RK TEAM RECORD PTS
1 Florida 3-0 371
2 Texas 3-0 353
3 Alabama 3-0 352
4 California 3-0 303
5 Penn State 3-0 301
6 Mississippi 2-0 293
7 LSU 3-0 290
8 Miami (FL) 2-0 272
9 Boise State 3-0 265
10 Oklahoma 2-1 209
11 USC 2-1 208
12 Ohio State 2-1 199
13 Virginia Tech 2-1 193
14 Cincinnati 3-0 187
15 TCU 2-0 178
16 Houston 2-0 132
17 Oklahoma State 2-1 119
18 Florida State 2-1 112
19 Michigan 3-0 94
20 Brigham Young 2-1 80
21 Kansas 3-0 78
22 Georgia 2-1 76
23 North Carolina 3-0 60
24 Auburn 3-0 32
25 Nebraska 2-1 20
Others receiving votes: UCLA, Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Missouri, Iowa, Washington, Clemson, Oregon, Southern Miss</p>
<p>Ranking Web of World Universities</p>
<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
2 Harvard University **<br>
3 Stanford University<br>
4 University of California Berkeley<br>
5 Cornell University<br>
6 University of Wisconsin Madison<br>
7 University of Minnesota<br>
8 California Institute of Technology **<br>
9 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign *<br>
10 University of Michigan </p>
<p>[World</a> Universities’ ranking on the Web: Top USA & Canada](<a href=“http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=usa_canada]World”>http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=usa_canada)</p>
<p>My Sat scores for jan are 1800’s (i was very sick that day)
And my scores for oct are almost 2200’s</p>
<p>I also have good sat2 scores(700’s) and bad ones (500’s)</p>
<p>Schools like UPenn and Cornell requires that i send all of my scores</p>
<p>But do i really need to send all of them? </p>
<p>I know it says that i send all of my scores but on the website i can still uncheck the scores that i don’t want to send.</p>
<p>Is there anyone who didn’t send all of their scores when they were told to send all?
If so, were there any consequences? Did you see receive admittance?</p>
<p>No you do not need to send all scores if you are ethically-challenged. :(</p>
<p>In response to the question asked: why would Berkeley be ranked high based on any system that discusses the undergraduate experience in general? Berkeley’s a world-class place for academics, but I’m sure for serving the needs of a massive group of people wanting to get educated, aside from being relatively cheap (even with the budget issues), I’m not sure it caters to most people’s needs as well as many other places may.</p>
<p>this is like the millionth time this has been asked. at the end of the day, does ranking really affect the quality of your four years?</p>
<p>UCSD’s the better choice for some areas of Biotech, though that’s more because it’s in SD than because of the strength of the program. UCLA’s better premed, though that’s something you see at most schools with good med programs. And so forth.</p>
<p>Berkeley’s still the better choice for most purposes, though.</p>
<p>Berkeley graduates more PHD’s than 95% of all colleges. They have several top programs, but consistently rank in top 10 programs across the board. They are not ranked in the top 20 overall because the amount of money they are raking in has gone down in trajectory. They simply don’t get as much money from donations as ivies, and only 30% from the state (and decreasing). Academically, they are equal to any top 10 school aside from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and your technical schools like MIT and Cal tech. Besides, it’s the best public university in the world by far.</p>
<p>I use to care about rankings, but since actually transferring here, I could really care less. Then again, I tend to avoid social circles where academic elitism pervades.</p>
<p>Whatever the status of the academic student body, the graduate students and faculty are out of the world.</p>
<p>All rankings are relative. It’s up to individuals.
2 out of 21 people in this selective program is very significant:</p>
<p>[The</a> M.D.-Ph.D. Program at Harvard Medical School](<a href=“http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/news/class_2009.html]The”>http://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/news/class_2009.html)</p>