another rankings list. I don't hate it

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"This is incoherent."

In that you were challenged in formatting your post, your impression should not be surprising.

No your post is just incoherent. You brought up pairings arbitrarily and the explanation is a word salad.


I’m on Team Pairings!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Looks more reasonable than US News.

+1
Appears to pertain to peer quality/outcomes/academics more than USnews.
Anonymous
Leaving out the academies, these are the Top 10 publics they list.

U Michigan
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UVa
UNC
Georgia Tech
U Texas Austin
U Florida
UCSD
William and Mary
Anonymous
Really ? Because I hate them all. So subjective
Anonymous
the ranking is more accurate if you break down by categories. someone did the top 10 publics above, but here are the top 10 privates and LACs:

Harvard
Stanford
UPenn
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Duke
Columbia
UChicago
Dartmouth

Williams
Amherst
Pomona
Swarthmore
CMC
Harvey Mudd
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Colgate
Anonymous
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The top schools are the top schools.

Different rankings, pretty much the same schools.

Apply to them and give it a shot!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Not a bad list, but why so many LACs in top 50? Feels like the LACs are diluting an otherwise solid list.


Because the high-quality UG education leads to excellent outcomes, not a mystery.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Wharton has extraordinary outcomes. A&S not so much.

(no kid at Penn, but wondering if place on list is about Wharton exclusively)


A&S and Engineering are top because the students are very motivated to get good career outcomes and grad school admissions. A&S has top medicine, business, and law grads.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wharton has extraordinary outcomes. A&S not so much.

(no kid at Penn, but wondering if place on list is about Wharton exclusively)


A&S and Engineering are top because the students are very motivated to get good career outcomes and grad school admissions. A&S has top medicine, business, and law grads.

Penn is great, but it’s no MIT or Princeton overall.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://subject.com/subject100


It's the same damn schools, all the time, just slightly reshuffled.

These "rankings" are beyond worthless.


Is any other country as obsessed with rankings as the US? Seriously, in a country of 345 million people, how much different is school #8 from school #20. It's splitting hairs.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:the ranking is more accurate if you break down by categories. someone did the top 10 publics above, but here are the top 10 privates and LACs:

Harvard
Stanford
UPenn
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Duke
Columbia
UChicago
Dartmouth

Williams
Amherst
Pomona
Swarthmore
CMC
Harvey Mudd
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Colgate


JHU and Northwestern are T10, not Columbia or Dartmouth.
Anonymous
Columbia is definitely a top 10 and if the ranking is undergrad focused, Dartmouth is definitely a stronger academic school than NU or JHU.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"This is incoherent."

In that you were challenged in formatting your post, your impression should not be surprising.

No your post is just incoherent. You brought up pairings arbitrarily and the explanation is a word salad.


I’m on Team Pairings!

You're OK with me, my friend.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:the ranking is more accurate if you break down by categories. someone did the top 10 publics above, but here are the top 10 privates and LACs:

Harvard
Stanford
UPenn
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Duke
Columbia
UChicago
Dartmouth

Williams
Amherst
Pomona
Swarthmore
CMC
Harvey Mudd
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Colgate



I like this list bcs it adds the two together. We have almost exclusively lists that don't. To do separate seems to me to deflate wasp and inflate Colgate etc a #10 LAC is just not comparable to a t20 university in outcomes or resources or even faculty.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://subject.com/subject100


It's the same damn schools, all the time, just slightly reshuffled.

These "rankings" are beyond worthless.


Is any other country as obsessed with rankings as the US? Seriously, in a country of 345 million people, how much different is school #8 from school #20. It's splitting hairs.


Haha, US is nothing compared to China, South Korea, and Singapore. In Shanghai and Beijing, one way for someone not from these cities to obtain certification as a "local resident" (which comes with several perks) is to graduate from a short list of less than 100 top global universities based on QS/Times/US News. In Singapore where elitism is out of control, it's not Ivy or bust, it's Oxbridge/HYPSM or bust. They thumb their nose at UPenn, Duke, and Columbia. Folks in the US are much more reasonable and level-headed.
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