Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:35     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:Replace Umich and ND with Emory and Georgetown


wrong
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:34     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

Note: The data that inform these rankings usually lag by a few years, so it will be a few years later when the rankings reflect the impacts of the administration's battles with top schools like Harvard and Columbia, along with financial irresponsibility of other schools like UChicago. I expect these schools to drop a few spots in the next few years.

1 - Princeton
2 - MIT
3 - Harvard
4 - Stanford, Yale
6 - UChicago
7 - Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn
11 - Caltech
12 - Cornell
13 - Brown, Dartmouth
15 - Columbia, Berkeley
17 - Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt
20 - Carnegie Mellon, UMichigan, Notre Dame, WUSTL
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:34     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago and Hopkins are both great schools but they are below Ivies, Stanford, Duke, MIT, CalTech. Should be around 13. No shame in being 13.


I generally agree with this, though I’d put Chicago below Brown and Dartmouth at 15.


I said Ivies, Stanford, Duke, CalTech and MIT. That's 12 schools. So being behind those is 13. Though on second thought I might put Northwestern ahead of Chicago and Hopkins - not sure.


That “ranking” makes little sense if you consider the kids who have gone to these universities from DC’s high school in recent years: the Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia kids have been mostly (if not all) institutional priorities (URM, legacy, athlete). The UChicago and JHU kids have been among the top students (top ten percent, NMSFs, etc)
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:34     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Chicago is a the one school that is a very difficult admit from public schools but a very easy admit from top private schools for kids who are academically minded but for whatever reason don't have top20 stats.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:30     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:Does Northwestern get top 10% students at STA, Sidwell, GDS?


STA is unique in that they publicly announce who is in the top20% (not top 10%). Sidwell and GDS do not so it's just conjecture.

Yes, STA top 20% go to NU but not below this. It's a difficult admit.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:29     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Chicago and Hopkins are both great schools but they are below Ivies, Stanford, Duke, MIT, CalTech. Should be around 13. No shame in being 13.


I generally agree with this, though I’d put Chicago below Brown and Dartmouth at 15.


I said Ivies, Stanford, Duke, CalTech and MIT. That's 12 schools. So being behind those is 13. Though on second thought I might put Northwestern ahead of Chicago and Hopkins - not sure.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:29     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Cornell has solidified itself as the #5 ivy - it's not credible to call it the worst ivy with consistent performance like this
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:28     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Vandy still tied at 17. Supposedly it is the "hot" school yet is still appropriately ranked. Their fan club needs to work harder.


You still don't get it and apparently never will. Vanderbilt kids choose quality of life prestige hunting.

Not a Vandy parent but come on already.


Vandy people act like it should be top 5. It has gotten cultish. I think it is a really great school. Perhaps deserves to be slightly higher. But it is basically in the right place. They need to chill.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:27     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:Chicago and Hopkins are both great schools but they are below Ivies, Stanford, Duke, MIT, CalTech. Should be around 13. No shame in being 13.


I generally agree with this, though I’d put Chicago below Brown and Dartmouth at 15.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:27     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Chicago thing is crazy because from top private high schools they only matriculate kids who are well out of the top 20%. Maybe this year will be different.



At DC's magnet Chicago is a Plan B for kids who don't get into Ivies. #6 is surprising.


same w our private, should be 13-15.


+2
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:26     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Does Northwestern get top 10% students at STA, Sidwell, GDS?
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:26     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Vandy still tied at 17. Supposedly it is the "hot" school yet is still appropriately ranked. Their fan club needs to work harder.


You still don't get it and apparently never will. Vanderbilt kids choose quality of life OVER prestige hunting.

Not a Vandy parent but come on already.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:26     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Chicago thing is crazy because from top private high schools they only matriculate kids who are well out of the top 20%. Maybe this year will be different.



At DC's magnet Chicago is a Plan B for kids who don't get into Ivies. #6 is surprising.


same w our private, should be 13-15.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:26     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Anonymous wrote:Vandy still tied at 17. Supposedly it is the "hot" school yet is still appropriately ranked. Their fan club needs to work harder.


You still don't get it and apparently never will. Vanderbilt kids choose quality of life prestige hunting.

Not a Vandy parent but come on already.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 22:24     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!
Replace Umich and ND with Emory and Georgetown