2024 US News rankings

[Anonymous]

People seem to care only about the output but seem to have little understanding or interest in the input. USN just needs to scramble the list up to stay relevant. These schools will be just fine. For those who place so much weight on USN, there are many other rankings and factors to consider when choosing a college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ranking won't have much affects.
People won't switch to large publics for some shuffling in rankings for social mobility etc.

It is "effects' not "affects'. You must have been educated at Private university and not some "large publics".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ranking won't have much affects.
People won't switch to large publics for some shuffling in rankings for social mobility etc.

It is "effects' not "affects'. You must have been educated at Private university and not some "large publics".

I went to a large public school in VA.
English is my 2nd language, so I still get mixed up with some vocabs and expressions.
I'm an engineer and not so good at language anyways, but thanks for the correction.
I'm sure you makes mistakes with your 2nd language as well if you have one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ranking won't have much affects.
People won't switch to large publics for some shuffling in rankings for social mobility etc.

It is "effects' not "affects'. You must have been educated at Private university and not some "large publics".

I went to a large public school in VA.
English is my 2nd language, so I still get mixed up with some vocabs and expressions.
I'm an engineer and not so good at language anyways, but thanks for the correction.
I'm sure you makes mistakes with your 2nd language as well if you have one.

by the way, my kids all went to private schools while my wife and I went to large public schools in VA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The experience of a student at a wealthy private is typically very different from the experience at a large public with a limited budget.

Generally speaking, course availability and getting the classes you actually want each semester can be a big difference between the two.

+1000
Just as the experience at an independent HS is very different from that a large public HS. What some people will never understand (ahem, public school parents) is that parents who pay to send their kids to elite HS's aren't interested in having their with the masses at large public colleges, regardless of rankings.

Thanks for talking about the elephant in the room. Why would a parent send their kid to a private/independent school with its small class and individualized attention only to have them go across the country to attend classes with 500 other students at Berkeley or UCLA.

I dunno. But I see a lot of large colleges on the top private schools’ matriculation lists so somebody is. And many of the larger privates have pretty big intro classes too. By your logic, everyone should be going to liberal arts colleges.

I never said that or implied that (ever heard of a mid-sized university?). I did however look at top privates in NYC and it seems very few go to large publics in California (or elsewhere):

https://www.dalton.org/programs/high-school/college-counseling
https://www.horacemann.org/academic-life/college-counseling
https://www.brearley.org/about/college-matriculations-2018-2022
https://trinityschoolnyc.myschoolapp.com/ftpimages/390/download/download_4530575.pdf

Holy grade inflation 😳
I just looked at the Trinity School link…NO students got a C??!

There also very few A+s. You obviously don’t know the school and the students that go there. It’s ridiculously intense.

At a lot of schools like this, once you get a C, your parents pull you out and send you somewhere with guaranteed As.

[Anonymous]

It’s just soooo obvious who is worked up over the new rankings and why. Private school parents think their kids are too good for state schools. But they can’t get into the Ivies, Stanford, MIT etc. anymore because those schools are getting more inclusive. So the parents start looking at Tulane, Wash U, Northeastern, Wake, Tufts, NYU, etc and tell themselves that they’re better than UVA, UMD, Tech, William & Mary, the UC schools and the better Big Ten schools just because they cost more. But they never were. Never. The new rankings reflect that reality.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s just soooo obvious who is worked up over the new rankings and why. Private school parents think their kids are too good for state schools. But they can’t get into the Ivies, Stanford, MIT etc. anymore because those schools are getting more inclusive. So the parents start looking at Tulane, Wash U, Northeastern, Wake, Tufts, NYU, etc and tell themselves that they’re better than UVA, UMD, Tech, William & Mary, the UC schools and the better Big Ten schools just because they cost more. But they never were. Never. The new rankings reflect that reality.

+1

PP is the one soooo "worked up"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ranking won't have much affects.
People won't switch to large publics for some shuffling in rankings for social mobility etc.

People were *already* favoring large public’s before these rankings came out. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Idiots.

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 (Tie) UCLA, UCB
17 Rice
18 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
20 Notre Dame
21 UMich
22 Georgetown
23 UNC
24 (Tie) CMU, Emory, Virgina, WashU StL
28 UCD, UCSD, UF, USC

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Agree with the top 14.
After 14 the list goes off the rails!

[Anonymous]

^^^I agree with the top 22. Who cares after that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^I agree with the top 22. Who cares after that?

Georgetown grad! Lol how were the rats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ranking won't have much affects.
People won't switch to large publics for some shuffling in rankings for social mobility etc.

People were *already* favoring large public’s before these rankings came out. Sorry to burst your bubble.

That’s because they are easier to get into…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Idiots.

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 (Tie) UCLA, UCB
17 Rice
18 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
20 Notre Dame
21 UMich
22 Georgetown
23 UNC
24 (Tie) CMU, Emory, Virgina, WashU StL
28 UCD, UCSD, UF, USC

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Agree with the top 14.
After 14 the list goes off the rails!

Only the top 5, Wharton (not Penn) and Caltech are in a different league, rest from 6 to 22 are all interchangeable because the student body will be high stats, motivated kids. Vanderbilt, WashU and Emory are for kids who want to avoid public schools. They get kids with lower but decent stats who cannot apply to ivies in ED1 and ivy rejects who panic in ED2.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Idiots.

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 (Tie) UCLA, UCB
17 Rice
18 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
20 Notre Dame
21 UMich
22 Georgetown
23 UNC
24 (Tie) CMU, Emory, Virgina, WashU StL
28 UCD, UCSD, UF, USC

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Agree with the top 14.
After 14 the list goes off the rails!

You must have a low threshold for rail going-offing. Exactly what about 15 & below has got you slamming your fingers in a kitchen drawer? Yeah, ND over Michigan is a bit much, but it’s hardly worth losing sleep over. Ohhhh, I get it. You went to one of those 4 tied at #27 that wakes up every morning with a big powder blue backside stuck in its face. I wonder which one is yours🤔

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Idiots.

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 (Tie) UCLA, UCB
17 Rice
18 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
20 Notre Dame
21 UMich
22 Georgetown
23 UNC
24 (Tie) CMU, Emory, Virgina, WashU StL
28 UCD, UCSD, UF, USC

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

Agree with the top 14.
After 14 the list goes off the rails!

I can't even make it to 14

i have issues with Hopkins, Brown, and Columbia

UCLA and Berkeley are an abomination

Let's not discuss UVA, Florida, and UC Davis

Everything is asunder. Everything is wrong.

This list ain't right.