Definitive Top 25 list

[Anonymous]

There's always discussion on the forum about what are the top schools and I'm here to help. I combined both the USNews and WSJ rankings to create a more accurate and complete ranking. These two are the most reputable in circulation thus why others weren't used.

1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Stanford
4.Yale
4. tie Princeton
6. Duke
7. Cal Tech
8. Columbia
8. tie Johns Hopkins
8. tie Northwestern
11. U Chicago
11. tie UPenn
11. tie Brown
14. Dartmouth
15. Cornell
16. Vanderbilt
17. Washington U
18. Rice
19. Emory
20. USC
20. tie CMU
22.Notre Dame
22. tie U Michigan
22. tie UCLA
25. Georgetown
25. NYU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's always discussion on the forum about what are the top schools and I'm here to help. I combined both the USNews and WSJ rankings to create a more accurate and complete ranking. These two are the most reputable in circulation thus why others weren't used.

1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Stanford
4.Yale
4. tie Princeton
6. Duke
7. Cal Tech
8. Columbia
8. tie Johns Hopkins
8. tie Northwestern
11. U Chicago
11. tie UPenn
11. tie Brown
14. Dartmouth
15. Cornell
16. Vanderbilt
17. Washington U
18. Rice
19. Emory
20. USC
20. tie CMU
22.Notre Dame
22. tie U Michigan
22. tie UCLA
25. Georgetown
25. NYU

Well, UVA is tied with CMU on USNWR for no 25, so I'm gathering your kid didn't get into UVA?

[Anonymous]

HYPSM in the top 5 as they should be.

[Anonymous]

Whoever keeps posting these lists stop I’m begging

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever keeps posting these lists stop I’m begging

Haha +1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's always discussion on the forum about what are the top schools and I'm here to help. I combined both the USNews and WSJ rankings to create a more accurate and complete ranking. These two are the most reputable in circulation thus why others weren't used.

1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Stanford
4.Yale
4. tie Princeton
6. Duke
7. Cal Tech
8. Columbia
8. tie Johns Hopkins
8. tie Northwestern
11. U Chicago
11. tie UPenn
11. tie Brown
14. Dartmouth
15. Cornell
16. Vanderbilt
17. Washington U
18. Rice
19. Emory
20. USC
20. tie CMU
22.Notre Dame
22. tie U Michigan
22. tie UCLA
25. Georgetown
25. NYU

Well, UVA is tied with CMU on USNWR for no 25, so I'm gathering your kid didn't get into UVA?

No, UVA is 25 on USNews but 55 on WSJ for a combined rank of 40. I guess it's another notable omission.

[Anonymous]

Also, somebody on these forums keeps slipping NYU into these "top" listings. NYU is not in the top 25 on either US News or WSJ, so OP is full of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever keeps posting these lists stop I’m begging

No, what else would we do here?

[Anonymous]

Get out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, somebody on these forums keeps slipping NYU into these "top" listings. NYU is not in the top 25 on either US News or WSJ, so OP is full of it.

Get over it! That's how the numbers pan out. NYU is 26 one WSJ and 29 one USNews. Enough to be 25 when combined because there's no other schools beating that score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's always discussion on the forum about what are the top schools and I'm here to help. I combined both the USNews and WSJ rankings to create a more accurate and complete ranking. These two are the most reputable in circulation thus why others weren't used.

1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Stanford
4.Yale
4. tie Princeton
6. Duke
7. Cal Tech
8. Columbia
8. tie Johns Hopkins
8. tie Northwestern
11. U Chicago
11. tie UPenn
11. tie Brown
14. Dartmouth
15. Cornell
16. Vanderbilt
17. Washington U
18. Rice
19. Emory
20. USC
20. tie CMU
22.Notre Dame
22. tie U Michigan
22. tie UCLA
25. Georgetown
25. NYU

Well, UVA is tied with CMU on USNWR for no 25, so I'm gathering your kid didn't get into UVA?

No, UVA is 25 on USNews but 55 on WSJ for a combined rank of 40. I guess it's another notable omission.

But USNWR is all that matters. All the other rankings don't. That's why all the colleges are trying to get top stats kids to report to USNWR. USNWR runs colleges in the US because they are so beholden to it. Wrong, but still true.

[Anonymous]

Hahaha I went to both NYU and UVA and in no way shape or form is NYU better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's always discussion on the forum about what are the top schools and I'm here to help. I combined both the USNews and WSJ rankings to create a more accurate and complete ranking. These two are the most reputable in circulation thus why others weren't used.

1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Stanford
4.Yale
4. tie Princeton
6. Duke
7. Cal Tech
8. Columbia
8. tie Johns Hopkins
8. tie Northwestern
11. U Chicago
11. tie UPenn
11. tie Brown
14. Dartmouth
15. Cornell
16. Vanderbilt
17. Washington U
18. Rice
19. Emory
20. USC
20. tie CMU
22.Notre Dame
22. tie U Michigan
22. tie UCLA
25. Georgetown
25. NYU

Well, UVA is tied with CMU on USNWR for no 25, so I'm gathering your kid didn't get into UVA?

No, UVA is 25 on USNews but 55 on WSJ for a combined rank of 40. I guess it's another notable omission.

But USNWR is all that matters. All the other rankings don't. That's why all the colleges are trying to get top stats kids to report to USNWR. USNWR runs colleges in the US because they are so beholden to it. Wrong, but still true.

USNews isn't all that matters. Every single one of these schools posts the results of WSJ indicating that they care about this ranking as well. They don't post Forbes or Nice so I didn't use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, somebody on these forums keeps slipping NYU into these "top" listings. NYU is not in the top 25 on either US News or WSJ, so OP is full of it.

Get over it! That's how the numbers pan out. NYU is 26 one WSJ and 29 one USNews. Enough to be 25 when combined because there's no other schools beating that score.

See what I mean?

[Anonymous]

Colleges and Universities report their stats every year to USNWR; they don't to WSJ,. There are thousands of ranking systems out there because everyone wants to cash in on the campus craziness market. USNWR is the only one that counts