US News 2020 rankings

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Hi guys serious question. Why is George Washington in DC so low. It has fallen to 70 from 63 and 50s before. Are you seriously going to tell me that Florida State is a better school?

It is usually compared to Boston University, Tulane, NYU, Wake, and similar which are 27 to 40.

My kid is being recruited for a sport and this is concerning. Other surveys have it 60s as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Crickets. Where are the UVA boosters? Congrats to Michigan pushing UVA out.

UVA and W&M really dropped. Big change in just one year.

Meh. I wouldn't call UVA's drop to 28th from 25th as big. There are nine schools (counting ties) ranked between 25th and 29th. The overall score for the 25th ranked is 75 and for the 29th it's 72. Pretty negligible difference.

William and Mary on the other hand is now at 40th, a new low for them. Then there's Maryland, at 64th. Not THAT's the embarrassing ranking.

It is a new low for UVA as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Crickets. Where are the UVA boosters? Congrats to Michigan pushing UVA out.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Didn’t apply. Not a VA resident. He got into one of the top 10 though.

Sure he did.

I don’t care what you believe lol. Read it and weep.

Pretty petty of you then. Why do you care about a school your kid didn't even apply to?

I don’t. But I do like to see what the UVA braggers have to say about the drop. Just a grating group of folks who just might shut up for a change.

Ha ha. You say you don't care, but you've now posted at least three times on the subject. Right.

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Anonymous wrote:Vermont and Miami of Ohio are dismally ranked Public Ivies.

UT-Austin and UW-Madison seem really undervalued. William and Mary is just an odd fit. Never thought I’d see the day Wake Forest overtook UVA. No serious person thinks Wake Forest is a better school than UVA. George Mason is still up and coming very very slowly.

I would say both UVA and W&M are better than Wake. Wake is 56 in Forbes, behind both UVA and W&M. It is behind UVA in WSJ, but ahead of W&M. But of course USNWR matters the most.

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Anonymous wrote:Crickets. Where are the UVA boosters? Congrats to Michigan pushing UVA out.

UVA and W&M really dropped. Big change in just one year.

Meh. I wouldn't call UVA's drop to 28th from 25th as big. There are nine schools (counting ties) ranked between 25th and 29th. The overall score for the 25th ranked is 75 and for the 29th it's 72. Pretty negligible difference.

William and Mary on the other hand is now at 40th, a new low for them. Then there's Maryland, at 64th. Not THAT's the embarrassing ranking.

I am sure William and Mary will try to shift to focus to its very good undergraduate teaching rank and talk about lack f resort
Races, blah, blah. But their overall rank decline is...embarrassing. They are typically around 31 to 34 (dropped last year). Anyone know what’s going on there? They seem stuck in a cycle of unpopularity.

A couple of years ago, both W&M and UVA had lower "resources" than any schools ranked in front of them. By that measure, they were overachieving. At that time, UVA was #1 in graduation rate among publics and W&M was #2. For alumni giving %, W&M was #1 and UVA was #2.

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Berkeley didn't have to sit in the penalty box for very long. They are back at number 22. When I see them ranked behind UCLA, something just seems amiss. I lived in California for quite a while and I think a strong majority considers Berkeley better.

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Well,... Emory and Rice doing well. I hope it continues.

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Anonymous wrote:Well,... Emory and Rice doing well. I hope it continues.

Rice has long been an undervalued school.

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Scandal after scandal doesn't hurt USC very much.

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Anonymous wrote:Crickets. Where are the UVA boosters? Congrats to Michigan pushing UVA out.

UVA and W&M really dropped. Big change in just one year.

Meh. I wouldn't call UVA's drop to 28th from 25th as big. There are nine schools (counting ties) ranked between 25th and 29th. The overall score for the 25th ranked is 75 and for the 29th it's 72. Pretty negligible difference.

William and Mary on the other hand is now at 40th, a new low for them. Then there's Maryland, at 64th. Not THAT's the embarrassing ranking.

It is a new low for UVA as well.

And they are just ahead of a number of schools including Georgia Tech and UNC.

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Anonymous wrote:Crickets. Where are the UVA boosters? Congrats to Michigan pushing UVA out.

Sorry your kid didn’t get in.

Didn’t apply. Not a VA resident. He got into one of the top 10 though.

Sure he did.

I don’t care what you believe lol. Read it and weep.

Pretty petty of you then. Why do you care about a school your kid didn't even apply to?

I don’t. But I do like to see what the UVA braggers have to say about the drop. Just a grating group of folks who just might shut up for a change.

It’s a pretty insignificant drop. If you’re that invested in crowing about this ... what’s up with that? Were you hitting the refresh button every three seconds to check the ranking of a school you supposedly don’t care about? C’mon man.

NP here. When Michigan was below UVA by 2-3 places people made it out to be a huge gap. Now that it’s flipped it’s suddenly insignificant?

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Anonymous wrote:Hi guys serious question. Why is George Washington in DC so low. It has fallen to 70 from 63 and 50s before. Are you seriously going to tell me that Florida State is a better school?

It is usually compared to Boston University, Tulane, NYU, Wake, and similar which are 27 to 40.

My kid is being recruited for a sport and this is concerning. Other surveys have it 60s as well.

Didn't they get caught manipulating some data. That tends to set a school back.

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Surprised by northwestern being ranked in top 10... seems like an undervalued school

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Anonymous wrote:Scandal after scandal doesn't hurt USC very much.

The scandal happened at the end of last cycle which means the effects is likely to hit this new cycle of applications.
The USnews uses the data from the past cycle which means it would take 2-3 years to see the actual effects of the scandal on the rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi guys serious question. Why is George Washington in DC so low. It has fallen to 70 from 63 and 50s before. Are you seriously going to tell me that Florida State is a better school?

It is usually compared to Boston University, Tulane, NYU, Wake, and similar which are 27 to 40.

My kid is being recruited for a sport and this is concerning. Other surveys have it 60s as well.

No Offense but I would consider those 4 schools better than George Washington. Maybe I'm just younger.