The "40 colleges" that actually make up DCUM's "top 20" list!

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Anonymous wrote:How is Columbia on this list???

Gee, perhaps because its a top 20 college on all of the lists that DCUM worships, an Ivy with a 250+ year history, could be that. . .

Columbia is an antisemitic ghetto which is about to become a crime-infested sh!t hole for years to come.

I do love the Trumpers who are cool with Nick Fuentes but think a college that is 30+% Jewish is antisemitic because of what they see on Fox News. Get a grip and by the way read up on NYU, Northwestern, UCLA, Stanford and Harvard if you really want to compare what happened on Campuses in 23/24

OP is likely Zionist, conflating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism, so they would wrongly condemn all these protests as anti-semitic.

+1

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UC Merced should be on this list.

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

If you take state schools out, its roughly 20ish.

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UC San Diego should be in a new tier, like one that ranks middle schools.

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lol this thread is so stupid. Everyone trying to pretend they what schools are "top 20". "top 20" is pure fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:I have wondered for fun, if you just counted by # of mentions in this forum what the t10 list would be!

This is the kind of task that AI does well. This is what Google AI Summary says. Of course it might actually be inaccurate if you did an actual manual count.

Prompt: "What are the 10 universities most frequently mentioned on the dcurbanmom.com website college forum?"

"The universities most frequently mentioned on the dcurbanmom.com college forum are predominantly highly-ranked, elite institutions, often the eight members of the Ivy League plus a few others, collectively referred to as "Ivy Plus" schools. The specific top 10 can vary slightly by user opinion and current trends, but generally center around the following:

Harvard University
Stanford University
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Yale University
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania (Penn)
Duke University
University of Chicago
Dartmouth College

Other frequently discussed universities and liberal arts colleges (LACs) include Northwestern, Caltech, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and top LACs like Williams and Amherst. Discussions often revolve around the perceived prestige, acceptance rates, and application strategies for these highly selective institutions."

Not a lot of state colleges on there.

I am surprised by the absence of UVA considering how much it is discussed on this site.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone seem to have this elite fixation that results in a myopic view that fails to acknowledge there are viable public schools that will provide just as good if not better education and a much better ROI. Just because you student were to get accepted into one of these schools this does not guarantee their success in life. Especially for those students who are going to follow the cleanly mowed path cut by lawnmower parents.

What people call lawnmower is probably more aptly described as trailblazer if you are living better than your parents and your parents lived better than theirs.

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Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone seem to have this elite fixation that results in a myopic view that fails to acknowledge there are viable public schools that will provide just as good if not better education and a much better ROI. Just because you student were to get accepted into one of these schools this does not guarantee their success in life. Especially for those students who are going to follow the cleanly mowed path cut by lawnmower parents.

What people call lawnmower is probably more aptly described as trailblazer if you are living better than your parents and your parents lived better than theirs.

I prefer snowplow.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s Larlo. Not Lazlo.

Larlo?

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia

FIFY

Exactly.

Plus: UVA, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, Wellesley, U of F, Georgia Tech, and U of T (Austin) are located in the SOUTH!

Not gonna happen. Ever.

When did Wellesley move?

Agree. And UVA is Mid-Atlantic not South. It is largely Northern Virginia kids which haves a more Northeast vibe than anything else

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Anonymous wrote:UC Merced should be on this list.

no

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia

FIFY

Exactly.

Plus: UVA, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, Wellesley, U of F, Georgia Tech, and U of T (Austin) are located in the SOUTH!

Not gonna happen. Ever.

When did Wellesley move?

Agree. And UVA is Mid-Atlantic not South. It is largely Northern Virginia kids which haves a more Northeast vibe than anything else

UVA is not south?! Bless your heart, outside of the DMV, Virginia is south! If y’all don’t live down here, maybe you don’t see it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have wondered for fun, if you just counted by # of mentions in this forum what the t10 list would be!

This is the kind of task that AI does well. This is what Google AI Summary says. Of course it might actually be inaccurate if you did an actual manual count.

Prompt: "What are the 10 universities most frequently mentioned on the dcurbanmom.com website college forum?"

"The universities most frequently mentioned on the dcurbanmom.com college forum are predominantly highly-ranked, elite institutions, often the eight members of the Ivy League plus a few others, collectively referred to as "Ivy Plus" schools. The specific top 10 can vary slightly by user opinion and current trends, but generally center around the following:

Harvard University
Stanford University
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Yale University
Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania (Penn)
Duke University
University of Chicago
Dartmouth College

Other frequently discussed universities and liberal arts colleges (LACs) include Northwestern, Caltech, Brown, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and top LACs like Williams and Amherst. Discussions often revolve around the perceived prestige, acceptance rates, and application strategies for these highly selective institutions."

Not a lot of state colleges on there.

I am surprised by the absence of UVA considering how much it is discussed on this site.

PP who posted that. AI can definitely be wrong. We have no way to verify its conclusions other than hours of work.

Keep this in mind when you read the posts about how AI is killing entry-level jobs.

Some people like/need more confidence in what is being served up.

However, I think it's fair to say there's a lot of Ivy chit chat on here. As well as lots of posts of lists and rankings. That creates a lot of school name mentions without lots of school-specific qualitative info being given.

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To get the most benefit, needs to be one of these 15: All 8 ivies plus the top 7 privates, Mit Stanford Caltech Duke JHU Chicago Northwestern.

They all maximize peer intelligence, research availability to undergrads, funds for undergrad opportunities and smaller classes compared to top-5 publics. They all are on top-tier company target lists.

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Anonymous wrote:To get the most benefit, needs to be one of these 15: All 8 ivies plus the top 7 privates, Mit Stanford Caltech Duke JHU Chicago Northwestern.

They all maximize peer intelligence, research availability to undergrads, funds for undergrad opportunities and smaller classes compared to top-5 publics. They all are on top-tier company target lists.

+1 these are all "worth it" but all in the highly rejective category and far reaches for the unhooke