2026 US News College Rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing for sure: the test required schools will be massively promoted, the test blind schools will be massively demoted.

Among the TO schools, there will be an additional factor in methodology: percentage submitting scores.

No there wont. Stop pulling make believe variables out of your arse….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One thing for sure: the test required schools will be massively promoted, the test blind schools will be massively demoted.

Likely the opposite. Test required reduces your average SAT to prior COVID numbers. Also, there's no evidence to suggest that test optional students are less likely to lead successful careers or attain fellowships.

Test optional is for dummies.

[Anonymous]

The new ranking will be more aligned with their 2018 ranking.

[Anonymous]

It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new ranking will be more aligned with their 2018 ranking.

So practically the same. Usnews ranking has hardly changed over a decade

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

+1

This was the last year of rankings based mostly on meaningful factors.

Someone mentioned Middlebury’s ranking drop above. The drop was driven by the addition socioeconomic factors and then last time around by changes in how FTE were computed which artificially dropped their academic spending number. Someone on CC broke the whole thing down last year when it happened. It hit another school hard as well, maybe W&L?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

This is effectively the same ranking as today, just with the Claremont colleges shifted down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

+1

This was the last year of rankings based mostly on meaningful factors.

Someone mentioned Middlebury’s ranking drop above. The drop was driven by the addition socioeconomic factors and then last time around by changes in how FTE were computed which artificially dropped their academic spending number. Someone on CC broke the whole thing down last year when it happened. It hit another school hard as well, maybe W&L?

So why didn't it affect Middlebury's peers the same way? Sounds like a bunch of excuses for Middlebury's smaller financial resources, over enrollment issues, and ballooning deficit. Its budget issues have been outlined by the college itself as an outlier. DEI is not why Middlebury has precipitously dropped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

+1

This was the last year of rankings based mostly on meaningful factors.

Someone mentioned Middlebury’s ranking drop above. The drop was driven by the addition socioeconomic factors and then last time around by changes in how FTE were computed which artificially dropped their academic spending number. Someone on CC broke the whole thing down last year when it happened. It hit another school hard as well, maybe W&L?

So why didn't it affect Middlebury's peers the same way? Sounds like a bunch of excuses for Middlebury's smaller financial resources, over enrollment issues, and ballooning deficit. Its budget issues have been outlined by the college itself as an outlier. DEI is not why Middlebury has precipitously dropped.

+1, midd is currently undergoing extensive budget cuts and a partial hiring freeze. I wouldn't wave my finger at Black students.

[Anonymous]

The national universities category will not change. If anything they'll go more DEI in response to Trump.

[Anonymous]

They should only allow test REqUIRED schools in the top 15.

You can’t be elite when 40% don’t submit scores (meaning they don’t have the acceptable high scores). That’s lower caliber/selectivity—even though it attracts more students and falsely skews acceptance %

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

+1

This was the last year of rankings based mostly on meaningful factors.

Someone mentioned Middlebury’s ranking drop above. The drop was driven by the addition socioeconomic factors and then last time around by changes in how FTE were computed which artificially dropped their academic spending number. Someone on CC broke the whole thing down last year when it happened. It hit another school hard as well, maybe W&L?

So why didn't it affect Middlebury's peers the same way? Sounds like a bunch of excuses for Middlebury's smaller financial resources, over enrollment issues, and ballooning deficit. Its budget issues have been outlined by the college itself as an outlier. DEI is not why Middlebury has precipitously dropped.

You're back. I remember a thread a little bit ago where someone dismantled you and your nonsense. Hopefully they will arrive to do it once again but I do remember the gist.

They overenrolled one year and then the poster showed the return to norm.
They don't have a ballooning deficit, they do have an ongoing deficit because of Monterey.
Grinnell suffered the exact same drop and Wesleyan dropped as well.

We know that you have an abnormal hate for Middlebury but really you are just too much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It will be back to 2020 IMO( released fall 2019)

The major difference between 2018/2020 is Columbia. I don’t think it can be #3.

2018 list makes a lot of sense, it’s the one I keep using for closer-to-real ranking.

Their 2018 liberal arts college ranking also makes sense. Each school is more or less at their right place +- 3.

+1

This was the last year of rankings based mostly on meaningful factors.

Someone mentioned Middlebury’s ranking drop above. The drop was driven by the addition socioeconomic factors and then last time around by changes in how FTE were computed which artificially dropped their academic spending number. Someone on CC broke the whole thing down last year when it happened. It hit another school hard as well, maybe W&L?

So why didn't it affect Middlebury's peers the same way? Sounds like a bunch of excuses for Middlebury's smaller financial resources, over enrollment issues, and ballooning deficit. Its budget issues have been outlined by the college itself as an outlier. DEI is not why Middlebury has precipitously dropped.

+1, midd is currently undergoing extensive budget cuts and a partial hiring freeze. I wouldn't wave my finger at Black students.

I would not call a budget cut of between 2 and 3 percent 'extensive'. If you are planning on joining the Middelbury troll you'll need to do better.