Official US news 2023 thread
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Anonymous
Are you stupid or something? There are 2000+ 4 year colleges, I don't have time and money to visit all of them and talk to graduates. So I use this references for initial screening and list , then I try to visit the one in the short list. These are very helpful for that purpose. |
Anonymous
Assuming you are instate for Virginia, that would be foolish. Bank the difference and use it for grad school. |
Anonymous
You have posted this in numerous forums over the last two weeks, yet never provide a cite. It's simply not a true statement, although you want it to be |
Anonymous
That makes sense since UVA Law hovers between being no 6 and 8 in the rankings for law school but Michigan is 10 |
Anonymous
Dp, but I agree. My kid wasn’t willing to jump through the Georgetown admission hoops, but would have applied if they accepted the common app. It’s pretty stupid decision on Georgetown’s part than turns off a number of qualified applicants. |
Anonymous
Or Leland Stanford |
Anonymous
There are numerous universities that owned slaves directly. Should they change their names? |
Anonymous
No, it was a direct response to the moron squawking about Clemson. Stanford wasn't a slave issue, he just murdered Native Americans and stole their land. |
Anonymous
It's their way of ensuring that the students who apply have a serious interest in attending, and it probably helps their yield (even though USN doesn't measure for that anymore). |
Anonymous
If you can't be bothered with the 'admission hoops', then Georgetown doesn't want you. |
Anonymous
Do you actually think they don't hire more teachers to handle additional load? EVERY school has the problem of high student-teacher ratio for beginner level classes including UVA and some LACs. |
Anonymous
A lot of top students are fine with that, but it isn’t in the university’s interests to have an increasing smaller applicant pool. |
Anonymous
It's in many books and publications--read the history of how Northeastern marketed itself to drive up it's rating. People only wanted Northwestern prior. Read about the universities cited for lying to bolster the ratings in USNWR. Read how the ratings are actually tabulated. The Common Application and test optional greatly increase the number of student applicants in order to turn more away and increase selectivity. Now, you could argue that a school with smaller classes and a higher quality undergraduate population is a better university, but you could also argue that the difference between 19 students and 21 students in a class is negligible. You could argue that the difference between a class with an average SAT score of a 2100 instead of a 2050 is also negligible. And yet, it’s these small difference that make all the difference in rankings. |
Anonymous
They don't need USNWR to validate them. |
Anonymous
During their first years on the Common Application, Brown saw a 21 percent increase in applications, while Columbia saw a 32 percent increase. I have no doubt Georgetown could see a similar effect and therefore yield a more academically accomplished and diverse freshman class. In fact, one of the biggest issues in college admissions right now is the fact that many qualified students from lower income backgrounds simply aren’t applying to selective schools. A switch to the Common Application would make Georgetown more accessible to qualified students who may not have much college guidance information. The prevailing perception is that the Common Application represents a rat race for status among top colleges. |