Your reading comprehension is off and you are too fixated in UCLA. |
Guess what, all t10 or whatever ranking they are take in kids of all performance levels. They are PUBLIC higher education institutions. If you can't handle that, stick with private colleges, it's better for the rest of applicants if even one kid isn't considering a public |
The overhaul of UC university admissions specifically reduces high achieving students and the majority of their college students are now coming from low achieving high schools. It isn’t just about accepting a range of students, they have reduced the student quality dramatically. |
Nuh-uh! UVA’s test optional approach is TOTALLY different! / |
This goes beyond test blind/optional admissions. |
Sure, but if we are talking about ranking the publics, isn't the poor student quality and peer group going to affect their rank? |
The top x% of every HS is offered a spot in a UC, but not necessarily Cal or UCLA. Only the very top of the pool get admitted to the top UCs. This is why Cal is like 40% Asian American, and UCLA 35%. UC Merced, UC Riverside, SC all have a 70%> acceptance rate, the bottom rung UCs. |
Where does that put SB, SD, D and I ? Aren't those also 25+% Asian American? |
DP. Many people give the most weight to Engineering, Computer Science, and Business. A quick check of USNWR undergraduate rankings shows UT is ranked higher than UCLA in Engineering (6th vs 14th), Computer Science (9th vs 14th), and Business (6th vs NR / No business school). |
Pre-professional is pretty important too. |
Not even close to Engineering Computer Science or Business. It's "Pre" for a reason. |
Really? So everybody at JHU wants to be there for the Engineering Computer Science or Business? Pre-Med doesn't have anything to do with it? |
Oh, OK - so based on the 2026 USNWR undergraduate rankings for those three areas, MIT is the unanimous best undergraduate university in the country and Tier 1 of public universities, in order, is Berkely, UIUC, Michigan. I guess I can live with that. |
2026 USNWR rankings for Undergraduate Engineering 1. MIT 2. Stanford 3. Georgia Institute of Technology (tie) 3. UC Berkely (tie) 5. Cal Tech 5. UIUC 2026 USNW rankings for Computer Science 1. MIT 2. Carnegie Mellon 2. Stanford 2. UC Berkely 5. Georgia Institute of Technology(tie) 5. Princeton 7. Cornell (tie) 7. UIUC |
| I was unaware that UIUC ranked consistently higher than all other publics aside from Berkeley in so many areas, not just the two referenced above. |