The Top 50 National Universities by Average Rank from the 8 Most Influential Rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we have come up with a much better top 50 list with the tier approach compared to magazine ranks. Sorry Florida State, you are not top 50.

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Northwestern
2B) UMich, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury, Vanderbilt
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Solid but Vanderbilt is 2B, pretty disrespectful to put it at 3A in my opinion.

I think we all agree on that, not sure how the other version with Vanderbilt in 3A keeps getting recycled. I'll update it.

[Anonymous]

Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Any objections?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Any objections?

Looks excellent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Ha I showed this to my daughter who is at a 2A Ivy and she said this is how her generation thinks of it. She said very accurate in her mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia, Northwestern

2A) Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Vanderbilt

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Throw UChicago into 1B and you’ve got the most accurate list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we have come up with a much better top 50 list with the tier approach compared to magazine ranks. Sorry Florida State, you are not top 50.

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Northwestern
2B) UMich, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury, Vanderbilt
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Solid but Vanderbilt is 2B, pretty disrespectful to put it at 3A in my opinion.

So what is this based on?
Just out of someone's ass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Ha I showed this to my daughter who is at a 2A Ivy and she said this is how her generation thinks of it. She said very accurate in her mind.

After reading this I sent it to my son who's also at a 2A school. We'll see what he says!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we have come up with a much better top 50 list with the tier approach compared to magazine ranks. Sorry Florida State, you are not top 50.

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Northwestern
2B) UMich, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury, Vanderbilt
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Solid but Vanderbilt is 2B, pretty disrespectful to put it at 3A in my opinion.

So what is this based on?
Just out of someone's ass?

6% acceptance rate, top pre-med program, best school in the South not named Duke, I definitely don't think it belongs in 2A but 2B seems about right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we have come up with a much better top 50 list with the tier approach compared to magazine ranks. Sorry Florida State, you are not top 50.

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Northwestern
2B) UMich, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury, Vanderbilt
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Solid but Vanderbilt is 2B, pretty disrespectful to put it at 3A in my opinion.

So what is this based on?
Just out of someone's ass?

So a committee compromised of DCUrbanMom frequent posters held a happy hour and came up with this. It was a Congressional Select Committee blessed by MAGA Republicans and Liberal Democrats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia, Northwestern

2A) Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Vanderbilt

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Throw UChicago into 1B and you’ve got the most accurate list.

It pains me to say this as my child went to UChicago but I think realistically 2A is where it should be. It would be easy for me to ride the US News wave that has UChicago so high but I don't like putting all the eggs in that basket. If my child got into Penn or Duke he would have gone there instead, let alone Harvard, Stanford, or Princeton. It's for a certain type of student, it's rigorous similar to Cornell or Swarthmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Ha I showed this to my daughter who is at a 2A Ivy and she said this is how her generation thinks of it. She said very accurate in her mind.

After reading this I sent it to my son who's also at a 2A school. We'll see what he says!

My 2A son responded and essentially agreed as well. He's in STEM though and said Yale isn't that enticing. He agreed his school wasn't quite as desirable as Caltech, Duke, Penn, or Columbia. But maybe the Columbia scandal will change some things about how it's viewed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Updated:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Caltech, Duke, Penn, Columbia

2A) Dartmouth, Northwestern, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

Any objections?

Looks arbitrary bullcrap.

[Anonymous]

The definitive list of Top 25 national universities:

1. Harvard Stanford

3. MIT Yale Princeton
6. Caltech

7. Penn, Columbia
9. Chicago, Duke
11. Hopkins, NU, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell
16. Rice, Vandy
18. Wash U, UC Berkeley, CMU
21. Georgetown, UCLA, UVA, UMich, Emory