Most over-ranked/under-ranked LACS on USNWR?
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Anonymous
Based on what, exactly? |
Anonymous
Yes, unfortunately. I kept two of these on the list in case DC wasn't admitted ED to first choice, but location significantly affected their ranking. In terms of great school in a great location, I think Haverford still tends to be under the radar. |
Anonymous
| Ranking the LACs in order doesn't make sense because people value different things. |
Anonymous
Pomona by yield and acceptance rate for a while. It’s not even the most applied to LAC. |
Anonymous
Dartmouth is probably on the US News National Universities list because its Carnegie Classification is R1. But you are right that it is more like a LAC than most of the other US News National Universities. |
Anonymous
In what ways? It’s very much a university. |
Anonymous
I know someone on here brings this case up up every time Oberlin is mentioned. As in, they seem to have a keyword search set and immediately jumps in with “bakery case!” Within 15 minutes of the school name being posted. But 2015 called. They want their “scandal” back. Especially since none of the faculty, Admin or students involved are still with the school. Are you still going to be trotting this out in 2034 PP? This was primarily a contract dispute from almost a decade ago. Pull 5 random colleges out of a hat and at least 3 will have had a much worse “scandal” this decade. I hope you also stalk and constantly mention all the schools like Michigan State and Ohio State that have faculty and staff sexually assaulting students? Or UCs with paid out an incredible amount of money for SA by a member of the medical faculty in 2022? Or Brown, Dartmouth, Wesleyan, UVA and UConn, which are the colleges with the highest number of sexual assaults reported in the last few years? https://www.koffellaw.com/blog/list-of-colleges-with-the-most-rape-incident-rep/ Do you immediately jump in when the many colleges with violent protests this year are mentioned? Heck, my in state VA college kid had a much nastier time on campus both post-Dobbs and with the Isreal-Palestine protests than my Oberlin kid did. Protests at Oberlin were peaceful, careful to not target Jewish students, stayed within the first Amendment zone, and were coordinated with the administration. And Graduation went off without a hitch. Not so much a Columbia— do you jump on with that every time Columbia is mentioned? Or, we could talk about UNC giving African American studies degrees to illiterate athletes? Or WFU student harassment of their Muslim Chaplin (Klassy). Or the Varsity Blues colleges. You immediately jump in when these colleges are mentioned, right? Because, unlike a contract dispute for the dining hall, those lawsuits/issues(and in some cases DOJ involvement) touch on student safety and the quality of the education. So do you bring up every lawsuit against every college in the last decade? Do you really believe a dining hall contact dispute harms the students more than SA (by students and faculty) fraud in admissions, fraud in issuing degrees, serious harassment of minority religious groups, etc? Or do you just Tucker Carlson Oberlin only and ignore the much worse things happening at other colleges? Because I’d rather send my kid to a college that has a decade old contract dispute about what pastries to serve in the dining hall that they settled (and have gotten rid of all the adults involved, and the students involved have long graduated) than send them to a college that currently ranks at the top 1% for sexual assault, or was involved in Varsity Blues, or has a Larry Nasser or Jim Jordan or pedo gynecologist on staff and ignores their victims, or gives worthless degrees, or has violent protests targeting ethnic/ religious minorities, or… You’ve been doing this for 9 years. Oberlin is mentioned. You race to post. Time to let it go. Or acknowledge it’s pretty small stuff compared to what has happened in the last few years (and in some cases is still happening) on other college campuses. Otherwise, you’re a hypocrite. (Which is what one expects of MAGA). |
Anonymous
-2 |
Anonymous
+3? Middlebury was way over ranked for a while. |
Anonymous
Oberlin is very popular in the DMV, NYC metro, Boston and CA, among other places. Tons of kids from the more liberal UMC suburbs in places like this. |
Anonymous
| holy cross is underrated imo, haven’t heard heard a bad word about it |
Anonymous
-4 Only in the eyes of Bucknell fans |
Anonymous
+5 or more people who aren’t Middlebury boosters. It’s not that great of a school. |
Anonymous
Posts like this make me laugh. Like there's a *massive* gap between 4 and 11. |
Anonymous
Students do learn to write there, however. |