Here Are America's Top Colleges for 2018

[Anonymous]

"There are some changes at the top of Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges list this year. Harvard remains in the No. 1 slot, but Yale is No. 2 and Stanford, No. 3, switching places since last year. MIT and Princeton are No. 4 and No. 5, also switching from the 2017 list.

But those are minor blips. More surprising is that for the first time a state school, the University of California, Berkeley, is as high as No. 14 (up from No. 29 last year), and that California makes such a strong showing near the top of the list. After Stanford, California Institute of Technology, a private STEM-focused school where 95% of undergraduates participate in research, ranks No. 6. Private Pomona College is at No. 19, and Harvey Mudd is at No. 23. Both schools are in the five-school Claremont Colleges consortium 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. One other public school ranks in the top 25, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at No. 22.

Other top-ranked public schools include the University of Virginia at No. 34, College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, at No. 43 and University of California, Los Angeles, at No. 46. UCLA was the most applied-to college in the country last year, with 113,000 applications for the fall 2018 freshman class (it admitted 14%)."


https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2018/08/21/here-are-americas-top-colleges-for-2018/?share=9c4597bc#1c7236c83710

[Anonymous]

I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

[Anonymous]

List for the rankings:

https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/list/#tab:rank

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

That doesn't mean what you think it means. And privates, on balance, are still preferable to publics.

[Anonymous]

In what universe is Brown better than Columbia, Duke, and Dartmouth?

[Anonymous]

OP are you the Claremont poster, by any chance?

[Anonymous]

That's a really good list. The only one I disagree with is Unc which I don't feel is in the top 100 graduating illiterates for decades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

I agree. Thngs seemed to have flipped recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

I grew up in CA so public schools, especially Berkeley, were always extremely well-regarded.

Our class valedictorian had a perfect score on the SAT and went to Berkeley (where she got a scholarship) over Harvard and Stanford.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

I grew up in CA so public schools, especially Berkeley, were always extremely well-regarded.

Our class valedictorian had a perfect score on the SAT and went to Berkeley (where she got a scholarship) over Harvard and Stanford.

My kid graduated TJ with perfect GPA and SAT and was only interested in Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech. Ended at one of these that offered the most money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

It still is. If the cost were a factor in the family finance, however,, I can see many pros in public's favor.

[Anonymous]

there is anew list every other week same for high schools, who can keep them straight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I remember when I was a teenager there was a cache about going to a private university over a public one....what a long-gone notion that is now!

I grew up in CA so public schools, especially Berkeley, were always extremely well-regarded.

Our class valedictorian had a perfect score on the SAT and went to Berkeley (where she got a scholarship) over Harvard and Stanford.

My kid graduated TJ with perfect GPA and SAT and was only interested in Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech. Ended at one of these that offered the most money.

That's very interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In what universe is Brown better than Columbia, Duke, and Dartmouth?

Duke? You lost me there.

Brown/Columbia/Dartmouth > Duke.

[Anonymous]

What on earth were their criteria?