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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Took unbiased data averages and factored in multiple methodologies to get a nice overall view of what colleges are best. Probably puts Hopkins and Chicago in more realistic places, and shows how underrated UMich is.

1. MIT 
2. Stanford 
3. Princeton 
4. Harvard 
5. Duke 
5. Yale 
7. Penn 
8. Caltech 
9. Columbia 
9. Northwestern 
11. Vanderbilt 
12. Rice 
13. Dartmouth 
14. UChicago 
15. Brown 
16. Cornell 
17. UMich 
18. Johns Hopkins 
19. WashU 
20. Notre Dame[/quote]

This list is way out of order.  Duke is way too high - above Yale? Come on.  Northwestern/Vandy/Rice above UChicago/Brown? Lol.

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Duke is tied with Yale not above it, if you read the original post (https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/xc0v5x/the_2023_supreme_t75_college_ranking_aggregating/) it's based on calculating averages across rankings, so that means you could calculate the numbers yourself too using the data from the ranking table. Duke is great I don't have an issue with it being in the top 5, I just don't know how I feel about Columbia because some of the rankings used to calculate its current spot in the aggregate could be using some of the outdated manufactured data that got them in trouble. So maybe Columbia actually deserves to be a bit lower. I also don't see an issue with Northwestern/Vandy/Rice above UChicago and Brown. All of those are great schools, and actually if you like at the table of rankings UChicago basically peaks with US News and every other ranking has it much lower, making it feel like UChicago has been very intentional about finding how to maximize its US News ranking in particular. Brown is also great but it unfortunately doesn't do as well in many of the rankings that focus on ROI, future earnings, etc. But seriously NW, Vanderbilt, and Rice are phenomenal schools, at least for Vanderbilt and Rice they might get a bit overlooked because they're in the South but that shouldn't detract from their quality. But Rice is really like a Southern Dartmouth with better STEM, it has a high endowment with plenty of resources for the students, great programs in all their majors, and high quality of life for students. I could get behind Vanderbilt being a bit lower, I would personally put Dartmouth above both Vanderbilt Rice UChicago and maybe Brown.[/quote]

Why is averaging rankings a legitimate method of anything? One bad ranking methodology can throw the whole thing off. This just looks like a ploy to make Duke look better. In no world, is Duke in the same class as Yale.[/quote]

How is this a ploy? The numbers are there for everyone to see and verify, it's based on the averages of the ranking lists themselves. Many schools perform better and worse compared to US News or whatever list you choose on the aggregate, but it looks like the point is to find what schools really check off all the boxes by holding their own with multiple differing methodologies.[/quote]

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