The "40 colleges" that actually make up DCUM's "top 20" list!
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Anonymous
Gee, perhaps because its a top 20 college on all of the lists that DCUM worships, an Ivy with a 250+ year history, could be that. . . |
Anonymous
No to Emory but Yes to Bowdoin and UC San Diego? |
Anonymous
You would have had a great life even if you did not go to a top school because of your fore fathers. |
Anonymous
| I am pretty sure the DCUM list is the usual Ivy+ schools and wherever dear Larlo got in, i.e. Bucknell, Elon, etc. the secret new hot college. . . |
Anonymous
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Number of times a school was ranked top 20 by US News, last 10 years.
10 Princeton University 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10 Harvard University 10 Yale University 10 Stanford University 10 University of Chicago 10 University of Pennsylvania 10 Johns Hopkins University 10 California Institute of Technology 10 Duke University 10 Northwestern University 10 Dartmouth College 10 Brown University 10 Vanderbilt University 10 Rice University 10 Cornell University 10 Columbia University 10 University of Notre Dame 8 Washington University in St. Louis 7 University of California-Los Angeles 5 University of California-Berkeley 2 Georgetown University 1 Emory University Number of times a school was ranked top 20 by US News 1984-2025. (40 rankings were released during this period.) 40 Princeton University 40 Harvard University 40 Yale University 40 Stanford University 40 University of Chicago 40 Dartmouth College 39 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 39 Duke University 39 Brown University 39 Cornell University 38 University of Pennsylvania 38 California Institute of Technology 38 Rice University 38 Columbia University 37 Johns Hopkins University 37 Northwestern University 33 Washington University in St. Louis 32 University of Notre Dame 29 Vanderbilt University 21 Emory University 20 University of California-Berkeley 9 University of California-Los Angeles 9 Georgetown University 6 University of Virginia 4 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 2 Carnegie Mellon University 2 University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 1 University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Anonymous
ChatGPT won’t scrape the data for me but is willing to guess: “If I had to guess a top-10 “most talked about” set UNORDERED and explicitly speculative, based on DCUM’s geography + what shows up in high-traffic threads: 1. University of Maryland–College Park 2. University of Virginia 3. William & Mary 4. Georgetown University 5. George Washington University 6. University of Michigan 7. Northeastern University 8. Harvard 9. Yale 10. Princeton / Stanford / MIT (pick any two; they appear together so often that separating their frequencies without data is impossible) Again: this is a pattern-based guess, not an actual frequency count.” |
Anonymous
PS I think this is wrong. GWU?? |
Anonymous
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Number of times a school was ranked top 20 by US News, last 10 years.
10 Princeton University 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10 Harvard University 10 Yale University 10 Stanford University 10 University of Chicago 10 University of Pennsylvania 10 Johns Hopkins University 10 California Institute of Technology 10 Duke University 10 Northwestern University 10 Dartmouth College 10 Brown University 10 Vanderbilt University 10 Rice University 10 Cornell University 10 Columbia University 10 University of Notre Dame 8 Washington University in St. Louis 7 University of California-Los Angeles 5 University of California-Berkeley 2 Georgetown University 1 Emory University 1 University of Michigan |
Anonymous
| And so...??? |
Anonymous
My kid applied/applying to four of these but that has less than zero to do with what is said at DCUM about these schools. Of their remaining 9 schools, some are mentioned/briefly discussed, a couple if at all ever. This place is not reality and as it’s anon, I’m not sure how much stock I’ve ever put in what’s discussed here. DCUM can be equal parts funny/helpful/nice or troll/rude/shitpost and I come back hoping for more of the former. |
Anonymous
no to 3 |
Anonymous
Sting of rejection still hurts. |
Anonymous
Living in reality helps. |
Anonymous
Don’t talk about NYU much either except to complain that it admits too many TO kids |
Anonymous
Columbia is an antisemitic ghetto which is about to become a crime-infested sh!t hole for years to come. |