2022 US News Best National Universities
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Anonymous
Same poster responding twice to their own post |
Anonymous
My kids are already calling them CHYMPS after the rankings came out. Also reddit, or whatever the kids nowadays use. |
Anonymous
PUKE |
Anonymous
It’s not new, but as often as not someone has Cal-Berkeley or Chicago in mind rather than Columbia. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
CHYMPS is used in political science. In that context, it always means Berkeley and never Chicago or Columbia though. |
Anonymous
You’re the same kid that is bashing Columbia across many threads. Were you rejected from Columbia? Posting false claims and bashing Columbia across many threads won’t make you feel any better. Move on! College is not the end-all-be-all, there are greater things ahead in life! |
Anonymous
Apparently not, as of 2021 - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CHYMPS |
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The kids on Reddit use CHYMPS in a tongue-in-cheek way. Not detracting from Columbia since it’s an excellent school, but it’ll take quite some more time for it to break into HYPSM.
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Anonymous
-1. Stanford was ranked #1 for multiple years in the late '80s by USNWR so HYPSM has remained on top for 3 plus decades. |
Anonymous
You’re the same kid that is bashing Columbia across many threads. Were you rejected from Columbia? Posting false claims and bashing Columbia across many threads won’t make you feel any better. Move on! College is not the end-all-be-all, there are greater things ahead in life! |
Anonymous
Yes, but it took longer for internet to catch onto that acronym. Just like how they argued Stanford doesn’t merit its #1 ranking but more realistically like #4 or #5. People used to argue all the time on College Confidential when it just launched and when I was applying to college in the early 2000s 
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+3 |
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Columbia is an Ivy + in a rapidly gentrifying part of Manhattan.
There's no shortage of top, wealthy international students that wouldn't rush the opportunity to attend Columbia. By that metric, it's really only behind Harvard since the name brand carries so much weight and Cambridge/Boston is cosmopolitan enough. MIT, Stanford, and for some even Berkeley beat it for engineering-focused internationals. Wealthy international students, and even wealthy American students today, want to attend school in wealthy metropolises, not a third-rate town like Yale's or a sleepy suburb like Princeton, or worse a rural middle of nowhere like Dartmouth. Not to add these schools reflect the epitome of old-money WASP snobbery with weirdly exclusive clubs, which wealthy internationals would avoid given they have more cosmopolitan options. Harvard is ironically the most diverse in this aspect, other than perhaps Brown/Cornell. Penn is in Philadelphia, Chicago in Chicago and Hopkins in Baltimore - none of these cities are particularly attractive to any international or even American students for obvious reasons. Both UCLA and NYU have received huge boosts in both applicant numbers and general reputation. They are in the most desirable parts of the two largest and most internationally well-known cities in the US. |
Anonymous
I'm laughing 😂, DCers always do that and think we don't notice. |