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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wake consistently was ranked by USNWR in the 20s from 1997 until 2023.

Highest ranking was 23 in 2014, and was 25 in 1997, 2003 and 2011. That’s UVa and UNC level elite.

After 25 years of being a T30, the ranking of Wake dropped in the last 3 years when the methodology changed after 2023.

2026 #51
2025 #46
2024 #47
2023 #29

The drop is definitely notable. I’d argue that the school hasn’t changed much in 4 years, however.[/quote]

At some point…the ranking is the ranking.  In 2030, will people still refer back to the 2023 rankings as the “real” rankings.

Just a note…51 is still a higher ranking than Wake receives from WSJ, Forbes…and literally every other ranking that exists.

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Meh, US News will just change the ranking criteria in a year or two.

It isn’t as if [b]Wake is the only medium size private college to drop in the rankings, nearly all did,[/b] and those with fewer poor kids fell the most.

Wake actually offers a very unique product.  College on the small size of medium that offers P4 sports, great weather, and very small classes taught by full professors — i.e. a slac education with the social life of a bigger school.  Undergrad  business school is ranked pretty well and the medical school likes its own undergrads with respect to admissions and offers good opportunities for undergrad research.  My own kid was able to find space in a lab pretty easily which has become difficult these days with federal funding cuts.

The U.S. News rankings have not had any effect on the applicant pool.  Wake continues to receive more applications every year (including this one) without any drop in accepted student quality.

It may not be for everyone but it definitely continues to appeal to smart kids who want an active social and sports scene, as well as the opportunity to really get to know their professors.[/quote]

So then, why do people keep referring back to its rankings from 2023....if the USNews rankings don't matter?

Can Wake boosters show some consistency?  If the rankings don't matter, then stop referring to an era when it was ranked higher.

BTW...hard to claim that nearly all schools of around 5,500 students dropped in the rankings.  I mean, Princeton is nearly the same size and it still is ranked #1 even with all the changes.  Not to mention MIT, Duke and countless other schools between 4,500 - 6,500 students remaining tops in the rankings.[/quote]

Other private schools that dropped in 2023– Yale, UChicago, Dartmouth, Vandy, Wash U, Tufts, Tulane, NE, etc … https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/us/us-news-college-ranking.html

But as I said earlier, I don’t care, applications have continued to go up year over year, every year.  Most people don’t really care about rankings that are based on socioeconomic diversity apparently.

It seems you are the one stuck on rankings.[/quote]

Once more...if you don't care, then why did you just search the records to come up with a list.  BTW, Yale?  UChicago?  Yale is #4, UChicago is #6...now because they aren't ranked #2 or #5 or whatever, that's "dropping" in the rankings?

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