Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is just Alabama with a higher price tag, less hot sororities, a much worse football team, and more obnoxious carpetbaggers from New Jersey.

It offers the illusion of private prestige for kids who are too afraid to admit that what they really want is the SEC experience.

I have no kids at Wake but have been there once....this seems ridiculous. Wake is a medium-to-small sized school. That does not seem like SEC at all.

The SEC is vastly superior. Vandy, UF, UGA, Texas are all better.

Wake is the Boston College of North Carolina.

Anonymous wrote:More DCUM hand wringing and consternation over rAnKiNgS.

Pass the popcorn.

Ranking-obsessed posters = insecure strivers

More DCUM hand wringing and consternation over rAnKiNgS.

Pass the popcorn.

These are actually the things that people should care about in a ranking. Ignore HS class standing? Class sizes? Teacher qualifications? Satisfied, successful alumni? You can worry about the rest:

- Class size
- Professors with terminal degrees (the highest degree achievable in their respective fields)
- Alumni giving average
- Graduate debt proportion borrowing
- High school class standing

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USNWR college criteria is not meaningful so neither are thier rankings.

Your privilege is showing. Some people care about social mobility.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wake, Villanova, and Tulane have dropped big time in US News.

Correct.

The relevant questions are why and whether anything about these schools are actually different now than they were five years ago, when they were rated higher.

The ranking formula changed, not the schools.

Anonymous wrote:Wake Forest is just Alabama with a higher price tag, less hot sororities, a much worse football team, and more obnoxious carpetbaggers from New Jersey.

It offers the illusion of private prestige for kids who are too afraid to admit that what they really want is the SEC experience.

I have no kids at Wake but have been there once....this seems ridiculous. Wake is a medium-to-small sized school. That does not seem like SEC at all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one considers Wake a peer of UVA.

They were right next to each other in the rankings for 25 years so I think you are wrong. You of course are free to not consider them peers.

Not quite "right next to," not quite "25 years" and never equal or ahead. So, nope.

Never ahead? In the 2020 survey, Wake was 27 and UVA 28. Believe they were tied in 2019. No desire to waste time on this given you were obviously wrong.

Why do people even look at rankings? They change so much from year to year.
It’s not even going to be the same rank by the time your own kid graduates.

Anonymous wrote:Wake is 93 by WSJ and 98 by Forbes.

Seems like people should appreciate it 51 in USNews.

WSJ has UC Merced and San Jose Stare as T20 schools so not sure why you’d rely on that.

There’s always another ranking. LinkedIn has Wake at 25 and Poets and Quants has the undergrad business program at 18.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one considers Wake a peer of UVA.

They were right next to each other in the rankings for 25 years so I think you are wrong. You of course are free to not consider them peers.

Not quite "right next to," not quite "25 years" and never equal or ahead. So, nope.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one considers Wake a peer of UVA.

They were right next to each other in the rankings for 25 years so I think you are wrong. You of course are free to not consider them peers.

Just because you were skinny for 25 years doesn’t mean you’re not fat now.

Wake is 93 by WSJ and 98 by Forbes.

Seems like people should appreciate it 51 in USNews.

Anonymous wrote:No one considers Wake a peer of UVA.

They were right next to each other in the rankings for 25 years so I think you are wrong. You of course are free to not consider them peers.

Anonymous wrote:USNWR college criteria is not meaningful so neither are thier rankings.

Your privilege is showing. Some people care about social mobility.