How would you rank these colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends little bit on the major, but in general;


Notre Dame (T20 school with 6th or 7th biggest endowment)

Berkeley (go here if engineering or CS)
UVA (go here if Virginian and money matters)

Boston College
Boston Univeristy
Tulane

Colby
UMCP
Vilanova

Colgate
Fordham

If accepted to both

Notre Dame vs UVA
79% choose Notre Dame. 95% would probably choose Notre Dame if cost is same.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Notre+Dame&with=University+of+Virginia#box2

Notre Dame vs Berkeley
60% choose Notre Daem. proabaly 80% if cost is same, 20% might be CS/engineering for Berkeley.
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=University+of+Notre+Dame&with=University+of+California%2C+Berkeley

UVA is clearly a step down from Notre Dame.
Notre Dame is ranked higher and studetns clearly favor it over Berkeley or UVA.

? That really wasn't the question though. Which grad are firms more likely to hire. I'd say in this area Uva. maybe, depends on the major of course.

Do you really think UVA grads have better chance to get hired than ND??
That is an weired imagination.

Here's a source for the employment by the best finance firms in the world.
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools


Because everyone and anyone wants to work in finance. Pfffft

Actually this is really a good comparison ND vs UVA.
ND Mendoza and UVA Mcintire are the most prestigious majors for the schools, and send graduates to the top finance and banking firms with top salaries.

[Anonymous]

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For real? I think the Catholic Church is a criminal enterprise, but I would never ding a candidate based on a degree from a Catholic college or university. As the pp said, it's always about ranking candidates not ranking schools (and not descriminating on the basis of religion).

I wouldn't necessarily ding other lower ranked Catholic schools, but a student who attends ND has other options. They're making a very deliberate choice.

Congratulation on being a bigot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the posters who thoink it would be pointless to rank them. if you are going to, why not do it by Test scores?
School 75% SAT
ND 1550
Colby 1510
Colgate 1510
BU 1500
UVA 1500
BC 1490
Berkley 1490
Tulane 1490
UMD 1460
Villanova 1460
Fordham 1430

UC is doing away with considering the SAT. Berkeley probably won't even be reporting it in future Common Data sets.

And Colgate and Colby have been test optional, which makes the scores higher. Dumb way to rank.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the posters who thoink it would be pointless to rank them. if you are going to, why not do it by Test scores?
School 75% SAT
ND 1550
Colby 1510
Colgate 1510
BU 1500
UVA 1500
BC 1490
Berkley 1490
Tulane 1490
UMD 1460
Villanova 1460
Fordham 1430

UC is doing away with considering the SAT. Berkeley probably won't even be reporting it in future Common Data sets.

And Colgate and Colby have been test optional, which makes the scores higher. Dumb way to rank.

Every school was optional, and most of them filled 25-30% with TO kids, so proportionately it's still the same result.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the posters who thoink it would be pointless to rank them. if you are going to, why not do it by Test scores?
School 75% SAT
ND 1550
Colby 1510
Colgate 1510
BU 1500
UVA 1500
BC 1490
Berkley 1490
Tulane 1490
UMD 1460
Villanova 1460
Fordham 1430

UC is doing away with considering the SAT. Berkeley probably won't even be reporting it in future Common Data sets.

And Colgate and Colby have been test optional, which makes the scores higher. Dumb way to rank.

Every school was optional, and most of them filled 25-30% with TO kids, so proportionately it's still the same result.

All of the "rankings" in this thread are dumb, but this one gets special stupidity points for lining up schools in order of their ~93rd %-tile (i.e., the 75th %-tile among the score submitters, which obviously is a small, self-selected group) scores on an optional test. Congrats. Or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the posters who thoink it would be pointless to rank them. if you are going to, why not do it by Test scores?
School 75% SAT
ND 1550
Colby 1510
Colgate 1510
BU 1500
UVA 1500
BC 1490
Berkley 1490
Tulane 1490
UMD 1460
Villanova 1460
Fordham 1430

UC is doing away with considering the SAT. Berkeley probably won't even be reporting it in future Common Data sets.

And Colgate and Colby have been test optional, which makes the scores higher. Dumb way to rank.

Every school was optional, and most of them filled 25-30% with TO kids, so proportionately it's still the same result.

All of the "rankings" in this thread are dumb, but this one gets special stupidity points for lining up schools in order of their ~93rd %-tile (i.e., the 75th %-tile among the score submitters, which obviously is a small, self-selected group) scores on an optional test. Congrats. Or something.

With the exception of Fordham, every one of those scores is in the 99th percentile. Fordham's is in the 98th percentile. So, so pointless to try to differentiate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO way is ND or UVA on the same tier as Cal. Cal is a major, internationally recognized research university. Notre Dame is an amazing regional school with fantastic community but its not the same, sorry. UVA is a solid regional/national university but not on same scale.

Every other school listed is niche or local, so it would depend on your personal preference.

Tulane is popular and has a fun factor for kids these days, so that might raise it above its academics, which are mediocre.

Agree 100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the posters who thoink it would be pointless to rank them. if you are going to, why not do it by Test scores?
School 75% SAT
ND 1550
Colby 1510
Colgate 1510
BU 1500
UVA 1500
BC 1490
Berkley 1490
Tulane 1490
UMD 1460
Villanova 1460
Fordham 1430

UC is doing away with considering the SAT. Berkeley probably won't even be reporting it in future Common Data sets.

And Colgate and Colby have been test optional, which makes the scores higher. Dumb way to rank.

Every school was optional, and most of them filled 25-30% with TO kids, so proportionately it's still the same result.

All of the "rankings" in this thread are dumb, but this one gets special stupidity points for lining up schools in order of their ~93rd %-tile (i.e., the 75th %-tile among the score submitters, which obviously is a small, self-selected group) scores on an optional test. Congrats. Or something.

What's special about Colgate and Colby?
They were some sort of 'Special Test Optional' unlike other schools?
Where did you get the ~93rd %~ tile?
Calm down.

[Anonymous]

This website has lists of the undergraduate schools attended for people in 12 fields. Look at them and then tell us you think HR cares about the school attended more than the individual's qualifications.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/law/

While you're at it, on the same site a study by the Chronicle of Higher Ed is quoted that shows employers surveyed about what factors matter when hiring new graduates placed college prestige dead last.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1: Berkeley, Notre Dame, UVA
Tier 2: BC, Colby, Tulane
Tier 3: BU, UMD
Tier 4: Colgate, Fordham, Villanova

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the posters who thoink it would be pointless to rank them. if you are going to, why not do it by Test scores?
School 75% SAT
ND 1550
Colby 1510
Colgate 1510
BU 1500
UVA 1500
BC 1490
Berkley 1490
Tulane 1490
UMD 1460
Villanova 1460
Fordham 1430

UC is doing away with considering the SAT. Berkeley probably won't even be reporting it in future Common Data sets.

And Colgate and Colby have been test optional, which makes the scores higher. Dumb way to rank.

most of the list is test optional. Do you prefer to use admit rate, but the list would be pretty similar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This website has lists of the undergraduate schools attended for people in 12 fields. Look at them and then tell us you think HR cares about the school attended more than the individual's qualifications.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/law/

While you're at it, on the same site a study by the Chronicle of Higher Ed is quoted that shows employers surveyed about what factors matter when hiring new graduates placed college prestige dead last.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/

I can't believe you cite a new blog by a nobody as authority:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

My name is Steve Becker. I am a Washington, DC area native, but spent 18 wonderful years as a school counselor at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, PA. It was there that I saw firsthand the stress that so often accompanies the college admissions process and began developing strategies to address it.

For those who are curious about my own schooling, I started my undergraduate studies at Connecticut College (Camels, not Huskies) and finished at the University of Maryland College Park, where I also completed my Master’s in School Counseling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

For real? I think the Catholic Church is a criminal enterprise, but I would never ding a candidate based on a degree from a Catholic college or university. As the pp said, it's always about ranking candidates not ranking schools (and not descriminating on the basis of religion).

I wouldn't necessarily ding other lower ranked Catholic schools, but a student who attends ND has other options. They're making a very deliberate choice.

Congratulation on being a bigot.[/quote]


no one is being a bigot. it's a fact that ND is 82-85 percent Catholic just like BY is 99% Mormon. Do you want that or not? I don't. But others do. But to list ND alongside other non-Catholic schools is disingenuous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This website has lists of the undergraduate schools attended for people in 12 fields. Look at them and then tell us you think HR cares about the school attended more than the individual's qualifications.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/law/

While you're at it, on the same site a study by the Chronicle of Higher Ed is quoted that shows employers surveyed about what factors matter when hiring new graduates placed college prestige dead last.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/

Yea right, good luck proving your individual qualifications attending a mediocre shool majoring in pcychology LOL

[Anonymous]

UC Berkeley
UVA
Notre Dame

Colgate
Tulane
Colby
BC/BU
UMD
Villanova
Fordham