
It's standing in the T10 was a lie. It's real standing is outside T20. Maybe closer to T30. |
I wish more schools would leave USNWR. It would help reduce the annual frenzy and let kids apply to schools that suit them. |
It helps my kids a lot for coming up with an initial list of schools. Kids don't have time to check out 3000+ schools one by one. |
Ivy league membership hasn't seemed to help Cornell much and seems like Columbia will be in the same boat soon. The joke of the Ivy. MIT, Duke, U Chicago etc are better than many ivys. No reason why NYU or schools like it can't pass the lower ivys like Columbia. |
NYU MBA is not stronger than Columbia MBA. Columbia is still M7, and NYU is still a string or two below. |
I've been right here, sweetheart. I've gone through the application process twice in the last two years. I don't really understand the relevance of your link. Yes, we know some of these schools give preferences to legacies and athletes. But that doesn't mean they aren't academically qualified. Whatever is it that you're trying to say? |
Good for Columbia. USNWR showed they are incompetent with their law school rankings rollout debacle this year. USNWR, or what is left of it outside of ranking anything they can in life, is just sad. The annual rankings are clickbait that people somehow genuinely care about. Movement year to year is essentially meaningless yet alumni and high schoolers are holding their breath on the eve of the release. |
Cornel is a massive university in a tiny town in the middle of central New York with some of the worst weather in the country. They are still a top 20 school with similarly ranked graduate schools, a $10 billion endowment, and a sub 10% admissions rate. Can you point to a single other university with an isolated cold weather campus and the same prestige? The only one I can think of is Dartmouth, which also happens to be in the ivy league. |
HELLO? bunch of them are academically less qualified merit wise. |
Would you go back to school for another degree knowing it would make your child a legacy? I don't know anyone who has done this (yet) but it would be possible to become a legacy at a place like Stanford, which "counts" grad school legacies, in 1-2 years. Now that these news reports are so old and the data mostly older than that, are far more kids trying out and specializing in new sports? Many of them like squash, swimming, lacrosse, tennis, and golf have built out different support systems with the hope of diversifying and becoming more popular as the demos shift in the US. |
They are trying to say that some of the elite US universities purposefully downgrade the "likeability" of certain racial groups even though they never met these students, and the interviewers give them high likeability marks, in order to limit their enrollment UK unis don't do that. |
Columbia hasn't been top7 in years. That M7 thing won't last. |
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You're delusional. 35 million people read US news yearly. 10 years time Columbia will be a teir 3 school. |
As much as everyone wants to hate on USNWR rankings...there are now plenty of others including Forbes, WSJ, etc.
That said...the Top 20 universities by any of these rankings are all the same, just reshuffled somewhat. The only rankings dramatically different are those that try to rank economic mobility or other unusual metrics. Regarding Columbia, they were caught cheating by one of their own professors. They lied about what %age of their professors have terminal degrees, and they included all their hospital/medical research funding in their spending per pupil. That latter metric is what really catapulted them...the professor said that Columbia spent 2x-3x per student compared to Harvard, Stanford, Yale etc. when including this funding (which none of the other schools included...because it had nothing to do with undergraduate student funding or really even Medical School student funding). |