The "40 colleges" that actually make up DCUM's "top 20" list!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s Larlo. Not Lazlo.

+100

[Anonymous]

Why aren't all the 50 state flagships mentioned?

Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
Alaska

Colorado
Connecticut
California (whichever one is considered the flagship)

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii ❤️

Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
Idaho

Kentucky
Kansas

Louisiana

Maryland
Maine
Mississippi
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Michigan
Montana

Nebraska
North Carolina
New Mexico
Nevada (UNLV)
New Hampshire
New York (SUNY)
New Jersey (Rutgers?)
North Dakota State (not sure if both Dakotas have a 'Univ of' that state name)

Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon

Penn State

Rhode Island

South Carolina
South Dakota

Texas
Tennessee

Utah

Vermont
Virginia

West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Washington

Some of the state flagship have multiple campuses like in PA at Penn State

[Anonymous]

Take out UofM, UW, UCSD and CMC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take out UofM, UW, UCSD and CMC

Michigan?
Spell folks, spell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

Absolutely not to these:
UF
UI Urbana
UC San Diego
Wisconsin
UW

The rest belong in tiers. Agree they are the top schools regularly discussed in this forum but there is a difference between Princeton and UNC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

This is DCUM

You need to drop USC, UT, Wisconsin, UF, UCSD, and add Pitt, VTech, Middlebury, Colgate, and Wesleyan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

This is DCUM

You need to drop USC, UT, Wisconsin, UF, UCSD, and add Pitt, VTech, Middlebury, Colgate, and Wesleyan.

Pitt? Colgate? No just no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.shemmassianconsulting.com/blog/ivy-league-rankings#:~:text=While%20not%20an%20exhaustive%20list,as%20various%20Ivy%20League%20schools.
This site claims...
Stanford, MIT, University of Chicago, Duke, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, and Georgetown are ivy plus schools.

Ivys, Williams, Amherst, Stanford, MIT, U of C, Duke, Caltech, Northwestern, JHU, Emory, WashU, ND, CMU, Vanderbilt, Rice, Georgetown, Berkeley, UCLA, Swarthmore, Pomona, Umich, Wellesley, UVa The ones in bold are debatable but more or less these are the elite schools in America.

Ivys, Williams, Amherst, Stanford, MIT, U of C, Duke, Caltech, Northwestern, JHU, Emory, WashU, ND, CMU, Vanderbilt, Rice, Georgetown, Berkeley, UCLA, Swarthmore, Pomona, Umich.

As a "barbell" family, this was our list. If you aren't going to one of those, state school is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have wondered for fun, if you just counted by # of mentions in this forum what the t10 list would be!

This is the kind of task that AI does well. This is what Google AI Summary says. Of course it might actually be inaccurate if you did an actual manual count.

Prompt: "What are the 10 universities most frequently mentioned on the dcurbanmom.com website college forum?"

"The universities most frequently mentioned on the dcurbanmom.com college forum are predominantly highly-ranked, elite institutions, often the eight members of the Ivy League plus a few others, collectively referred to as "Ivy Plus" schools. The specific top 10 can vary slightly by user opinion and current trends, but generally center around the following:

Harvard University
Stanford University
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Yale University
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania (Penn)
Duke University
University of Chicago
Dartmouth College

Other frequently discussed universities and liberal arts colleges (LACs) include Northwestern, Caltech, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and top LACs like Williams and Amherst. Discussions often revolve around the perceived prestige, acceptance rates, and application strategies for these highly selective institutions."

[Anonymous]

weird, I dont think like DCUM really talks about Columbia much (outside of the protests) or Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Why does everyone seem to have this elite fixation that results in a myopic view that fails to acknowledge there are viable public schools that will provide just as good if not better education and a much better ROI. Just because you student were to get accepted into one of these schools this does not guarantee their success in life. Especially for those students who are going to follow the cleanly mowed path cut by lawnmower parents.

[Anonymous]

How is Columbia on this list???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone seem to have this elite fixation that results in a myopic view that fails to acknowledge there are viable public schools that will provide just as good if not better education and a much better ROI. Just because you student were to get accepted into one of these schools this does not guarantee their success in life. Especially for those students who are going to follow the cleanly mowed path cut by lawnmower parents.

I got into one of these schools based on the lawn mowed by my parents, and I've been living a great life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone seem to have this elite fixation that results in a myopic view that fails to acknowledge there are viable public schools that will provide just as good if not better education and a much better ROI. Just because you student were to get accepted into one of these schools this does not guarantee their success in life. Especially for those students who are going to follow the cleanly mowed path cut by lawnmower parents.

I got into one of these schools based on the lawn mowed by my parents, and I've been living a great life.

+1. I got in based on the lawn mown by my great-grandparents, and I must say, my life has been even better than I expected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:weird, I dont think like DCUM really talks about Columbia much (outside of the protests) or Dartmouth.

AI can be wrong. But it does stupid tasks that people don't have time to do.