Sounds like the parents who finally have their kids’ school receive a better ranking think this list is perfect.

Anonymous wrote:i find these lists useless. When my kid selected his major he then ranked the schools. This information is useless to be honest.

Plus, add in other criteria for a given kid and most of the schools on the list disappear.

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This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

Ummm, Carnegie Mellon is below Cal Poly SLO. In what world is that accurate? (Its' not---CalPolySLO is a good school, but definately not on par with CMU)

Forbes doesn’t consider acceptance rates in their list, which I find refreshing.

None of the rankings do.

i find these lists useless. When my kid selected his major he then ranked the schools. This information is useless to be honest.

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Anonymous wrote:
This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

Ummm, Carnegie Mellon is below Cal Poly SLO. In what world is that accurate? (Its' not---CalPolySLO is a good school, but definately not on par with CMU)

Forbes doesn’t consider acceptance rates in their list, which I find refreshing.

Anonymous wrote:
This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

Ummm, Carnegie Mellon is below Cal Poly SLO. In what world is that accurate? (Its' not---CalPolySLO is a good school, but definately not on par with CMU)

Honestly it seems fair to me. The only colleges I’d quibble with are BYU, UCSB, and Washington & Lee. All three seem too high.

Otherwise it’s the best list I’ve seen.

I took a look and really makes zero sense. It is getting to the point where rankings are worthless. I focus on acceptance rate and rate of employment or grad school after. Also rate of graduation in four years. You have to look at metrics important to your family. Pell grants not helpful to us so not something we would focus on or grad research if you are not at a school with grad school also wouldn’t be a fit for us but might be for others.

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Anonymous wrote:
This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

Ummm really?
Duke at 20 way too low
UC San Diego at 21 way too high
Cal Tech at 22 way too low
Georgetown and Emory at 32 and 33 also too low.
BYU at 36 too High
Pomona at 37 too low
It's a strange list after the top 10.

If these are the complaints, it's a pretty darn good ranking.

Makes more sense than the US News rankings.

UMD 41...$uck it ND (42), UT (46), NYU (49), Wisconsin (50) and BC (59)!

15% is based in the Forbes American Leaders list? Wtf?

Anonymous wrote:
This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

Ummm really?
Duke at 20 way too low
UC San Diego at 21 way too high
Cal Tech at 22 way too low
Georgetown and Emory at 32 and 33 also too low.
BYU at 36 too High
Pomona at 37 too low
It's a strange list after the top 10.

This seems like a list without payoffs and manipulation.

https://www.forbes.com/top-colleges/
Ranking season has begun, Forbes always has a wonky ranking but are there any surprises?