Linkedin posts top college ranking - justice for Babson and Bucknell LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:Linkedin has better data than the department of defense - this ranking should become the bible for outcomes - although the elitist ivy or bust DCUM-area private school parents shelling out six figures on college prep / advisors for that holy grail of college admission - the ivy acceptance - will disagree and never give a babaon or bucknell any props for outcomes

Weird to compare LinkedIn to DoD.

US News college rankings are crap, we all know that.

But personally I prefer international rankings like QS and Times. They have great methodology.

[Anonymous]

This list is good for ROI which most people care about. Much more useful rankings than usnews.

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Nice Top 50 list.

Missing are WashUStL, Georgia Tech, UCLA, NYU, UNC, College of Wm. & Mary, all of the top ranked LACs, and the service academies.

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Doesnt pass the sniff test. UCLA and NYU aren’t ranked? But Babson and University of Fairfield are? Please

[Anonymous]

Where it “the street” poster? It’s your day!

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Anonymous wrote:Doesnt pass the sniff test. UCLA and NYU aren’t ranked? But Babson and University of Fairfield are? Please

Babson is an outstanding business school with very strong placement & Fairfield U. is a solid Jesuit school with a large business program. Babson definitely deserves to be on this list; however, I am less knowledgeable about Fairfield U.

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I've never seen a Babson grad-I've seen williams grads, Claremont McKenna grads, even Denison grads, but babson? Maybe they concentrate in Boston, but they definitely aren't known in New York.

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Fairfield was the biggest surprise to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is the formatting so bad? The "|"s stick out like a sore thumb - it's seems to me that someone just copied from chatGPT

100%. Only ChatGPT uses that weird formatting and emoji use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Linkedin has better data than the department of defense - this ranking should become the bible for outcomes - although the elitist ivy or bust DCUM-area private school parents shelling out six figures on college prep / advisors for that holy grail of college admission - the ivy acceptance - will disagree and never give a babaon or bucknell any props for outcomes

3 of the top 5 in this ranking are Ivy and 5 of the top 10. This ranking is actually the most generous to Ivy schools.

I know the WSJ rankings were thrashed when it ranked Babson highly.

[Anonymous]

the lac rankings are so unusual

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What makes so many on DCUM upset about this ranking, and the WSJ's ranking for that matter, is that many of top ranked schools are accessible. They don't require top grades, test scores, attendance at private feeder schools, or parents singularly focused on achieving admission to an elite college as the ultimate goal. Apparently this ranking values schools that successfully prepare students for careers while remaining open to a broader range of applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What makes so many on DCUM upset about this ranking, and the WSJ's ranking for that matter, is that many of top ranked schools are accessible. They don't require top grades, test scores, attendance at private feeder schools, or parents singularly focused on achieving admission to an elite college as the ultimate goal. Apparently this ranking values schools that successfully prepare students for careers while remaining open to a broader range of applicants.

^ hit the nail on the head - god forbid the exclusivity is removed from top ranked schools

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Anonymous wrote:the lac rankings are so unusual

Not really - these are LACs where kids take corporate roles and don't go the non-profit/academia route

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Linkedin has better data than the department of defense - this ranking should become the bible for outcomes - although the elitist ivy or bust DCUM-area private school parents shelling out six figures on college prep / advisors for that holy grail of college admission - the ivy acceptance - will disagree and never give a babaon or bucknell any props for outcomes

Weird to compare LinkedIn to DoD.

US News college rankings are crap, we all know that.

But personally I prefer international rankings like QS and Times. They have great methodology[b].

bleh - posts like this are the problem so many people caught up nitpicking the analysis in these multiple rankings and methodologies- so sad - everything is reduced to where a school is ranked on lists with a “great methodology” - we are better then this people