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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a public university in the top 20.[/quote]

Because real life != message boards full of circle-jerking striver moms who couldn't afford (or couldn't get their kid into) private college and do nothing but wax on and on about how amazing their kid's public U is. In real life,[b] the smartest kids at Virginia, Berkeley, UCLA and Michigan are JEALOUS of their friends at elite private colleges[/b].[/quote]

Not true at all. I went to one of those public universities and majored in a department that was ranked #1 nationally. Many of us actually felt sorry for the fools who paid 10X for a lower ranked major at one of those overpriced private colleges.

But yes, I'm sure their dorms were fancier and the gym had a floating river...

Frankly, the only reason the privates rank higher is because of gimmicks like artificially pumping applications so they can reject a higher percentage of applicants.[/quote] 
Those private school students likely still had better placement after graduation. [/quote]

Not true. The Forbes college list actually has the public universities at the top precisely because their ranking methodology gives greater weight to how many of a university's graduates become leaders in business and government.  USNews and Forbes focus more on incoming stats you can manipulate like acceptance rate.[/quote]
This is dumb, the word leaders come mostly from HYP. For ed has a garbage  methodology that uses cost of attendance divided by post grad salary, public schools are cheap for instate students thus public schools do better in the Forbes ranking. [/quote]

I'm pretty sure most "world leaders" attended schools in their home countries. The only American university with extensive global reach is Harvard. Yale and Princeton trail pretty quite far behind in global renown. You make them sound as if they are the three most reputable universities worldwide, while in fact, they aren't. Stanford and MIT are much more well known. You're just living in an anachronistic fantasy. [/quote]

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