It still very much is. This is the same ignoramous who keep posting that because Wisconsin fell from 7 to 12 now it is somehow “dead”. It still has a peer assessment of 4.2 . It still has a 1.6 billion dollar budget. It still has a 6 year graduation rate of ~90% and a 4 year of ~77%. Its top employers consist of tech companies like Epic and Google. All of these things are tangible, and relevant, metrics which place Wisconsin in the top 10 of public schools. Sure, the USNWR rankings might shift it down a few points, but that doesn’t mean it’s suddenly “worse” than new comer schools like UF/UC Davis/ UNC. Indeed, in those schools Wisconsin’s graduation rate and SAT splits are comparable or better. Then you need to consider that, especially in the stem side, Wisconsin simply outperforms those kinds of schools. I don’t know what you have against Wisconsin, but your obsession for striking it down is somehow greater than my willingness to defend it. It lives in your head rent free to such an extent that you actually mention it when Wisconsin boosters weren’t even in thread. |
UT isn’t in Texas, it’s in Austin. And I say that only slightly tongue-in-cheek. |
Agree that the UC schools beyond Cal and UCLA are not elite. While excellent for engineering, computer science, and a few other niche fields, Purdue is also not elite. Ohio State (for example) is much stronger across the board. That said, I wouldn’t put Ohio State in the top group either. |
UT Austin is a strong school, especially if one is admitted to its Plan II Honors program. For those int'd in high-level sports, it offers a world-class D1 swimming program, the men's side of which will be coached by Bob Bowman as of this coming academic year.
That said, UT Austin unfortunately is a public school in TX which means that it has to abide by state law. Texas' open carry and abortion policies would be a hard no from my standpoint. |
It's at Berkeley-Michigan level for CS and overall admissions rate (very hard OOS), but the quality outside CS is about those on the second list. |
No public is "elite", that's the point of a public university. |
Loved UT’s approach to the anti-Jewish protests. That alone is worth an application! |
It used to be not moving forward. Nor is any college in a red state. You have to be a complete moron to send a college student to a school in a red state.
Faculty alone, medical care if any issues especially for women, interstate travel for women is going away, dumbing down of Science departments hell no. |
You again? This is a board for adults. Get a hobby. No one thinks you’re funny but you. |
Oversight. It should be with UF and Wisco despite its impossible admissions from OOS. That is balanced by the fact that anyone from Texas can get in, even with a 900 SAT, if they finish in the top 6% of their hood/trailer park high school. |
Oh look, the Dobbs dork showed up. Meanwhile people keep moving to the states you love to hate, and their universities keep soaring in the rankings. |
+1 Keep Austin weird. |
If your only choices are UT and Michigan, go to UT, as long as its flagship campus in Austin not regional campuses. |
The only elite schools on this list are in rows 1-2. UF, Wisconsin, UGA, UIUC, Purdue are not elite schools. UCs like Irvine should be in row 3-4. |
Completely agree with this. |