School you pumped (or bashed) vs USNWR

[Anonymous]

Did it go up or down? My school went down. My kid's went up. Feels meh

[Anonymous]

lol

[Anonymous]

Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

Where TF have you been??? It is always the same. Very little change. I’ve been watching these ratings since the 90s. The only change was when some schools—NE, UChic., etc started driving up applicants and plating the mailing and ED game, test optional to appear more selective.

I mean what, you think Harvard and Princeton will drop out of the T10?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

Where TF have you been??? It is always the same. Very little change. I’ve been watching these ratings since the 90s. The only change was when some schools—NE, UChic., etc started driving up applicants and plating the mailing and ED game, test optional to appear more selective.

I mean what, you think Harvard and Princeton will drop out of the T10?

ED game was invented by UPenn and Ivies back in the days.
Applicants apply and commit for reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

Where TF have you been??? It is always the same. Very little change. I’ve been watching these ratings since the 90s. The only change was when some schools—NE, UChic., etc started driving up applicants and plating the mailing and ED game, test optional to appear more selective.

I mean what, you think Harvard and Princeton will drop out of the T10?

ED game was invented by UPenn and Ivies back in the days.
Applicants apply and commit for reasons.

Yet it’s Hopkins, Tufts, NE, Vandy etc that have two rounds of ED. ED1 & ED2–those are the true gamers - test optional (though Hopkins finally reverted)

[Anonymous]

Didn’t pump or bash it but genuinely puzzled why Haverford seems to be falling. DC1 liked it a lot but wound up elsewhere; nice campus, access to Philly, great pre-med outcomes. Is it because of budgets?

[Anonymous]

Kenyon and Dickinson get pumped by private high school parents but both are ranked 45th in 2026. No momentum for them. Colgate and Haverford have declined in recent past. Holy Cross inching up each year now 27th. And Bucknell will it’s magical Pipeline to The Street is now 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

Where TF have you been??? It is always the same. Very little change. I’ve been watching these ratings since the 90s. The only change was when some schools—NE, UChic., etc started driving up applicants and plating the mailing and ED game, test optional to appear more selective.

I mean what, you think Harvard and Princeton will drop out of the T10?

Selectivity has nothing to do with the rankings. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings

[Anonymous]

Tulane gets pumped here by lots of full pay families but now ranked 69 down from 63 in 2025. Believe they were in the 40s in early 2020s. By contrast FSU climbed up to 51 all time best. Villanova is down to 57 and UMiami 64.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

Where TF have you been??? It is always the same. Very little change. I’ve been watching these ratings since the 90s. The only change was when some schools—NE, UChic., etc started driving up applicants and plating the mailing and ED game, test optional to appear more selective.

I mean what, you think Harvard and Princeton will drop out of the T10?

Selectivity has nothing to do with the rankings. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings

Selectivity used to be a factor, though. Some schools pumped up selectivity to boost their rankings, so US News dropped it. Now schools pump up selectivity because status-seekers regard a low admissions rate as desirable in and of itself, without regard to the quality of the education or experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon and Dickinson get pumped by private high school parents but both are ranked 45th in 2026. No momentum for them. Colgate and Haverford have declined in recent past. Holy Cross inching up each year now 27th. And Bucknell will it’s magical Pipeline to The Street is now 30.

Truly shocked by HC and Bucknell.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what’s going on at Colgate. They used to be ranked in the teens. HC is a solid school. Bucknell not much depth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon and Dickinson get pumped by private high school parents but both are ranked 45th in 2026. No momentum for them. Colgate and Haverford have declined in recent past. Holy Cross inching up each year now 27th. And Bucknell will it’s magical Pipeline to The Street is now 30.

Yea Denison too.

There was a post a while ago when some idiot was arguing that Kenyon and Denison were as good as Grinnell which is just nuts. Kenyon is the definition of a back up school for kids rejected from the northeast liberal arts colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Feels like this year's ranking is very similar to last year's. Someone should compute the average change in rank (rise and drop both treated as positive) for last year's t50 schools. My guess is the average is less than 3. Repeat this for last year's t100 and my guess is the average is less than 5.

Where TF have you been??? It is always the same. Very little change. I’ve been watching these ratings since the 90s. The only change was when some schools—NE, UChic., etc started driving up applicants and plating the mailing and ED game, test optional to appear more selective.

I mean what, you think Harvard and Princeton will drop out of the T10?

ED game was invented by UPenn and Ivies back in the days.
Applicants apply and commit for reasons.

Yet it’s Hopkins, Tufts, NE, Vandy etc that have two rounds of ED. ED1 & ED2–those are the true gamers - test optional (though Hopkins finally reverted)

The majority of Ivies have ED. Schools like Harvard and Yale now have the absolute high ground, so they can pretend they're something special.