Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 09:47     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just jealousy about Brown—smart kids going on to great things and are having fun.


Brown should be ranked more like #13


All rankings are subjective, even if they use some objective inputs.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 09:45     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:Just jealousy about Brown—smart kids going on to great things and are having fun.


Brown should be ranked more like #13
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 06:10     Subject: Re:WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day it's nice to see a ranking have different methodology but similar results, it solidifies which schools are really the top schools.


Interesting how T20 on USNWR is basically the same as WSJ.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 05:21     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
It’s funny that this whole discussion is based on the top 20. Why not a top 25 like everyone uses at USNWR? Oh I know, that way publics are eliminated in the elite discussion.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 05:04     Subject: Re:WSJ 2022 College Ranking
At the end of the day it's nice to see a ranking have different methodology but similar results, it solidifies which schools are really the top schools.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 00:50     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Ha .... I remember sitting at a table at my friends house and she and her ds were discussing his college options. He was being recruited by Dartmouth for a sport and he asked her if that's the school "so and so's" mother graduated from? She said yes, he said no way in hell he was attending a school that turned out "bat shit" crazy B's like her. I remember my friend yelling him for his language but I found this hilarious.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2021 00:46     Subject: Re:WSJ 2022 College Ranking
It's all made up. For example 20% of a school's score is from something called "student engagement," which is based a survey given to college students. But many schools didn't have enough students surveyed so their ranking on this metric is given as >400. In the top 10, both Cal Tech and Princeton fall into this category -- so where did 20% of their total come from? They say that when data is missing, "where possible we will impute missing values." https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/wall-street-journal-times-higher-education-college-rankings-2022

So take it with a grain of salt, because that's what it's worth.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 23:24     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Just jealousy about Brown—smart kids going on to great things and are having fun.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 20:51     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 Yale University
5 Duke University
6 Brown University
7 California Institute of Technology
8 Princeton University
9 Johns Hopkins University
9 Northwestern University
11 Cornell University
12 University of Pennsylvania
13 Dartmouth College
14 The University of Chicago
15 Vanderbilt University
16 Columbia University
17 Washington University in St Louis
18 Rice University
19 University of Southern California
20 Emory University


21. Carnegie Mellon
22. Amherst
23. Williams
24. Michigan
25. Pomona
26. NYU
27. UCLA
28. Notre Dame
29. Swarthmore
30. Tufts
31. Wellesley
32. Georgetown
33. UNC
34. Claremont McKenna
35. Carleton
36. Cal
36. Haverford
38. Bowdoin
39. Smith
40. UC Davis
40. Middlebury
42. BU
43. UC San Diego
43. Wesleyan
45. Illinois
45. Washington
47. West Point
48. Purdue
49. Miami
50. Barnard

55. UVA
63. Richmond
73. W&L
78. W&M
104. VA Tech

75. Navy
80. Maryland
204. Washington College
223. Loyola
260. UMBC

72. GW
109. Howard
138. American
154. Catholic
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 20:13     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, really…… Brown is #6 I part because of the great outcomes for its graduates.


Sure, with a school of pass/fail grades, trust-fund babies, and weed-smoking potheads.


There’s another kind of pothead?
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 19:25     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:UVA #55


Sounds about right!


How much does rank really matter after a certain point?

Someone was posting lists of students at law schools earlier, I assume for the purpose of saying that these law schools are taking kids from the most prestigious universities they can get. That misses the point. They generally take kids with the highest stats, all other things being equal. Law school rankings are dependent on stats, and the schools know it. They aren't going to take a Yale kid with low LSAT and GPA over an Ohio State kid with a stellar LSAT and GPA. Of course, Yale kids tend to get high LSATs and GPAs because they were smart enough to be accepted to Yale, but they would have done the same if they had gone somewhere else.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 18:40     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:UVA #55


Sounds about right!
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 18:08     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
UVA #55
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 16:58     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
Anonymous wrote:Yeah, really…… Brown is #6 I part because of the great outcomes for its graduates.


How do they measure that? I thought Brown grads have the lowest ROI of the Ivy League. Obviously that is just one way of looking at it, and it could have as much to do with majors chosen by students as anything else.

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/collegeroi/
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2021 16:58     Subject: WSJ 2022 College Ranking
USC is too high.