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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

Notre Dame is 3.59% black. Shameful

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Funny, when I was a high school student in the 90s, these rankings did matter. Kids choosing between Cornell and Johns Hopkins, Middlebury and Haverford, would often base their final decision on the most recent ranking. That sounds crazy today.

These rankings may highlight a few newcomers (e.g U Florida, UC Davis), but aside from that I can’t imagine these rankings influencing anyone today.

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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

ND would be the perfect school imo if it backed the gas off on religion just a smidge. I know they’ve just expanded financial aid for middle class applicants and gone need blind for international applicants which may bring in a bit more diversity of voices.

But the vibes there are very good. The kids are happy, the sports are fun, the academics are solid, the job placement is great. What else do you want?

More diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

Notre Dame is 3.59% black. Shameful

A Catholic school in Indiana isn’t a huge draw for POC? Shocking!!

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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

Notre Dame is 3.59% black. Shameful

A Catholic school in Indiana isn’t a huge draw for POC? Shocking!!

+100 I am pretty sure if a smart, Catholic black kid is interested in Notre Dame they would have the same chance of admissions as a white kid. The appeal is just not there if you aren’t Catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary behing Virginia Tech.

This is what high school counselors have been saying for years.

+1
They were behind last year too.

Can you elaborate on what the high school counselors are saying about WM?

No counselor has ever said that because the schools are so different. The student applying to a large predominantly tech school is not the sane student who want an intellectual slac

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Top 40 National Private Universities by USN&WR

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 Havard
4 Standford
5 Yale
6 Caltech, Duke, JHU, Northwestern
10 Upenn
11 Cornell, Uchicago
13 Brown, Columbia,
15 Dartmouth
16 Rice, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt
19 CMU, WashU
21 Emory, Georgetown
23 USC
24 NYU
25 Boston College, Tufts
27 Boston University
28 Univ Rochester
29 Lehigh, Wake Forest
31 Case Western
32 Northeastern
33 Villanova
34 Brandeis, GWU, Santa Clara, Tulane, U Miami
39 RPI
40 Syracuse

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Anonymous wrote:UVA ahead of UNC once again. And tied with Georgetown. Maryland remains far behind. [/quot

And tied with Emory too.

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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

Notre Dame is 3.59% black. Shameful

what's shameful about it??

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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

ND would be the perfect school imo if it backed the gas off on religion just a smidge. I know they’ve just expanded financial aid for middle class applicants and gone need blind for international applicants which may bring in a bit more diversity of voices.

But the vibes there are very good. The kids are happy, the sports are fun, the academics are solid, the job placement is great. What else do you want?

OMG, maybe not having to spend the four most formative years of one’s life in godawful Indiana?

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary behing Virginia Tech.

This is what high school counselors have been saying for years.

No they haven't.

Not shocking VT is ranked higher when they play affirmative action with first gens

+1. Also, VT practices yield protection.

This has been repeatedly debunked on DCUM. From VT’s own website:

“Virginia Tech does not participate in yield protection.”

https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/counselor-corner.html

Don't you understand admissions today is all about marketing? The job of an admissions officer is solely to get your kid to apply (to drive up no. of applications) in order to reject them, thereby making the school
appear more selective than it is. They will say anything to secure an application. Any college admissions counselor will tell you that. You're hopelessly naive if you actually believe what Admissions says.

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I'm happy to see Cornell get a little more respect. But Duke and Northwestern at 6 is an abomination.

Also, what is with the the fixation on the UCs? Berkeley and UCLA do not belong in the top 20 for undergrad. There are five UCs in the top 40 alone. And UC Merced at 58 is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA still in the top 25. I’m sure that annoys the haters!

Well... barely.

Ha ha you’ve made my point.

It’s one of the few Publics in the top rankings.

And UVA is ranked #4 overall public.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny, when I was a high school student in the 90s, these rankings did matter. Kids choosing between Cornell and Johns Hopkins, Middlebury and Haverford, would often base their final decision on the most recent ranking. That sounds crazy today.

These rankings may highlight a few newcomers (e.g U Florida, UC Davis), but aside from that I can’t imagine these rankings influencing anyone today.

The rankings originally were merit based. That changed over the past 30 years where even class size, undergrad teaching focus (prof teaching courses vs TAs,etc), test scores, selectivity, etc and it changed to first gen stuff and student body composition, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Another year with ND in the top 20. Another year the haters will say it won't last. Always get a chuckle out of this.

ND would be the perfect school imo if it backed the gas off on religion just a smidge. I know they’ve just expanded financial aid for middle class applicants and gone need blind for international applicants which may bring in a bit more diversity of voices.

But the vibes there are very good. The kids are happy, the sports are fun, the academics are solid, the job placement is great. What else do you want?

OMG, maybe not having to spend the four most formative years of one’s life in godawful Indiana?

I know you are talking about ND, but Indiana-Bloomington is often highlighted here as being a great place to go to college. Is it just a nicer place?