List your top 50 universities/LACs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) BC, UT Austin, W&M, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

You list ranked by Princeton Review Academic Rating scores. Thought it would be interesting to compare to the list above which appears to be more of a synthesis of rankings.

Academics
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60–99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student–teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources.

Middlebury 99
Williams 99

Carleton 98

Chicago 94
Haverford 94
Wellesley 94

Bowdoin 93
Dartmouth 93
Johns Hopkins 93
MIT 93
Pomona 93

Brown 92
Hamilton 92
Vanderbilt 92
Vassar 92
Yale 92

Claremont McKenna 91
Emory 91
Stanford 91

Amherst 90
Caltech 90
Columbia 90
Cornell 90
Wash U 90

Barnard 89
Rice 89
W&M 89

BC 88
Duke 88
Northwestern 88
Princeton 88

CMU 87

Michigan 86
Penn 86

UNC 85
UVA 85

Notre Dame 84

Harvard 83

Davidson 82
Georgia Tech 82
Swarthmore 82

UCLA 81

Georgetown 80
UC Berkeley 80
UT Austin 80

USC 78

Hahahaha. I’m sorry Middlebury is the best school your kid got into, but let’s at least be realistic in our delusions.

[Anonymous]

Surveys like that are just an opportunity for hardos to flex.

[Anonymous]

1AA Harvard and Stanford

1A Yale and Princeton

MIT is limited in the breadth of its excellence, so it should be in 1B with CalTech and others.

Duke would like to be lumped in with that 1B group with or ahead of numerous Ivy League schools but 2A feels about right.

Swarthmore should pretty clearly be with Williams, Amherst, and Pomona in 2A. For a decent sized group of people who want to attend a small LAC, those really are their top choices too.

Seven Sisters wise, I'd put Wellesley in 2B with Bowdoin and Smith and Barnard in 3A (Smith, not on this list, is pretty established at least slightly ahead of Barnard)

Claremont McKenna has some private equity placement and $$ but it should probably be in 3A or even B. Most people there would rather be at neighboring Pomona (almost like a tiny version of the Harvard - MIT split)!

W&M probably shouldn't be included at this point (though regionally it is strong).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rarely is it worth the time to read a Reddit post!

If reading is too difficult for you, maybe you should let the adults do the talking

Adults spend time on Reddit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rarely is it worth the time to read a Reddit post!

If reading is too difficult for you, maybe you should let the adults do the talking

Adults spend time on Reddit?

Oh, child. It’s the fifth largest website in the world. You’re genuinely sheltered if you think Reddit is the purview of, what, 12 year olds?

[Anonymous]

WTF is wrong with theses people
Get a job or a hobby

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) BC, UT Austin, W&M, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

You list ranked by Princeton Review Academic Rating scores. Thought it would be interesting to compare to the list above which appears to be more of a synthesis of rankings.

Academics
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60–99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student–teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources.

Middlebury 99
Williams 99

Carleton 98

Chicago 94
Haverford 94
Wellesley 94

Bowdoin 93
Dartmouth 93
Johns Hopkins 93
MIT 93
Pomona 93

Brown 92
Hamilton 92
Vanderbilt 92
Vassar 92
Yale 92

Claremont McKenna 91
Emory 91
Stanford 91

Amherst 90
Caltech 90
Columbia 90
Cornell 90
Wash U 90

Barnard 89
Rice 89
W&M 89

BC 88
Duke 88
Northwestern 88
Princeton 88

CMU 87

Michigan 86
Penn 86

UNC 85
UVA 85

Notre Dame 84

Harvard 83

Davidson 82
Georgia Tech 82
Swarthmore 82

UCLA 81

Georgetown 80
UC Berkeley 80
UT Austin 80

USC 78

Student survey LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTF is wrong with theses people
Get a job or a hobby

Careful! Someone on this thread got me blocked for sharing a similar sentiment

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) BC, UT Austin, W&M, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

You list ranked by Princeton Review Academic Rating scores. Thought it would be interesting to compare to the list above which appears to be more of a synthesis of rankings.

Academics
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60–99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student–teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources.

Middlebury 99
Williams 99

Carleton 98

Chicago 94
Haverford 94
Wellesley 94

Bowdoin 93
Dartmouth 93
Johns Hopkins 93
MIT 93
Pomona 93

Brown 92
Hamilton 92
Vanderbilt 92
Vassar 92
Yale 92

Claremont McKenna 91
Emory 91
Stanford 91

Amherst 90
Caltech 90
Columbia 90
Cornell 90
Wash U 90

Barnard 89
Rice 89
W&M 89

BC 88
Duke 88
Northwestern 88
Princeton 88

CMU 87

Michigan 86
Penn 86

UNC 85
UVA 85

Notre Dame 84

Harvard 83

Davidson 82
Georgia Tech 82
Swarthmore 82

UCLA 81

Georgetown 80
UC Berkeley 80
UT Austin 80

USC 78

Hahahaha. I’m sorry Middlebury is the best school your kid got into, but let’s at least be realistic in our delusions.

Actually, NP here, went to Middlebury a hundred years ago and it was a lot of work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rarely is it worth the time to read a Reddit post!

If reading is too difficult for you, maybe you should let the adults do the talking

Adults spend time on Reddit?

Oh, child. It’s the fifth largest website in the world. You’re genuinely sheltered if you think Reddit is the purview of, what, 12 year olds?

Reddit is the still home to harassment, doxing and insults, right?! I hope there are not many preteens using it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1AA Harvard and Stanford

1A Yale and Princeton

MIT is limited in the breadth of its excellence, so it should be in 1B with CalTech and others.

Duke would like to be lumped in with that 1B group with or ahead of numerous Ivy League schools but 2A feels about right.

Swarthmore should pretty clearly be with Williams, Amherst, and Pomona in 2A. For a decent sized group of people who want to attend a small LAC, those really are their top choices too.

Seven Sisters wise, I'd put Wellesley in 2B with Bowdoin and Smith and Barnard in 3A (Smith, not on this list, is pretty established at least slightly ahead of Barnard)

Claremont McKenna has some private equity placement and $$ but it should probably be in 3A or even B. Most people there would rather be at neighboring Pomona (almost like a tiny version of the Harvard - MIT split)!

W&M probably shouldn't be included at this point (though regionally it is strong).

As soon as you said MIT should be moved down to 1B I realized I was probably reading gibberish from you. Putting Duke down to 2A made me stop reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This debate was basically ended through that popular Reddit post where someone took all the popular ranking systems and averaged each top school's ranks to find the best overall schools: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/xc0v5x/the_2023_supreme_t75_college_ranking_aggregating/

My breakdown would be:
1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

+1 The Reddit post is definitely the fairest way to do it if there's any way of doing this at all. Using 13 rankings and averaging them is a reasonably impartial measure to see what schools are widely considered the best. It's crazy that only four schools are in the top 10 in all 13 rankings, but it least it shows consistency: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and Duke. Harvard of course got ambushed by Forbes college ranking this year so it unfortunately missed out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) BC, UT Austin, W&M, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

You list ranked by Princeton Review Academic Rating scores. Thought it would be interesting to compare to the list above which appears to be more of a synthesis of rankings.

Academics
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60–99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student–teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources.

Middlebury 99
Williams 99

Carleton 98

Chicago 94
Haverford 94
Wellesley 94

Bowdoin 93
Dartmouth 93
Johns Hopkins 93
MIT 93
Pomona 93

Brown 92
Hamilton 92
Vanderbilt 92
Vassar 92
Yale 92

Claremont McKenna 91
Emory 91
Stanford 91

Amherst 90
Caltech 90
Columbia 90
Cornell 90
Wash U 90

Barnard 89
Rice 89
W&M 89

BC 88
Duke 88
Northwestern 88
Princeton 88

CMU 87

Michigan 86
Penn 86

UNC 85
UVA 85

Notre Dame 84

Harvard 83

Davidson 82
Georgia Tech 82
Swarthmore 82

UCLA 81

Georgetown 80
UC Berkeley 80
UT Austin 80

USC 78

Hahahaha. I’m sorry Middlebury is the best school your kid got into, but let’s at least be realistic in our delusions.

What on earth are you talking about? You’re SORRY that Middlebury is the best school they got into? Elitist a$$hole.

[Anonymous]

Depends. Which sport are we talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) BC, UT Austin, W&M, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford

You list ranked by Princeton Review Academic Rating scores. Thought it would be interesting to compare to the list above which appears to be more of a synthesis of rankings.

Academics
How hard students work and how much they get back for their efforts, on a scale of 60–99. This rating is calculated from student survey results and statistical information reported by administrators. Factors weighed include how many hours students study outside of the classroom and the quality of students the school attracts. We also considered students' assessments of their professors, class size, student–teacher ratio, use of teaching assistants, amount of class discussion, registration, and resources.

Middlebury 99
Williams 99

Carleton 98

Chicago 94
Haverford 94
Wellesley 94

Bowdoin 93
Dartmouth 93
Johns Hopkins 93
MIT 93
Pomona 93

Brown 92
Hamilton 92
Vanderbilt 92
Vassar 92
Yale 92

Claremont McKenna 91
Emory 91
Stanford 91

Amherst 90
Caltech 90
Columbia 90
Cornell 90
Wash U 90

Barnard 89
Rice 89
W&M 89

BC 88
Duke 88
Northwestern 88
Princeton 88

CMU 87

Michigan 86
Penn 86

UNC 85
UVA 85

Notre Dame 84

Harvard 83

Davidson 82
Georgia Tech 82
Swarthmore 82

UCLA 81

Georgetown 80
UC Berkeley 80
UT Austin 80

USC 78

Hahahaha. I’m sorry Middlebury is the best school your kid got into, but let’s at least be realistic in our delusions.

Would have expected Chicago, MIT, and Columbia to be at the top of the list!