Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is Columbia on this list???

Gee, perhaps because its a top 20 college on all of the lists that DCUM worships, an Ivy with a 250+ year history, could be that. . .

Columbia is an antisemitic ghetto which is about to become a crime-infested sh!t hole for years to come.

Anonymous wrote:weird, I dont think like DCUM really talks about Columbia much (outside of the protests) or Dartmouth.

Don’t talk about NYU much either except to complain that it admits too many TO kids

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

UVA is not top 20 in anybody's rankings.

Sting of rejection still hurts.

Living in reality helps.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

UVA is not top 20 in anybody's rankings.

Sting of rejection still hurts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No to Wisconsin, Michigan, UVA, UNC, Texas, Emory, USC,UF, Illinois, Tufts, and NYU.

No to Emory but Yes to Bowdoin and UC San Diego?

no to 3

Anonymous wrote:It's hard to follow the threads on here when people reference "Top 20" but are talking about up to 40 different colleges. Why are there 40 different colleges that people refer to as the "top 20"?

So are these the "40 colleges" that DCUM means when they reference the "Top 20" that Lazlo is going to or dreaming of?

Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UChicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Calltech, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Rice, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, U Michigan, Notre Dame, WashU, UVA, Georgetown, UC San Diego, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, UW, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Claremont Mckenna, USC, UF. U of T (Austin), NYU, Tufts, UI Urbana-Champaign, UM Wisconsin

My kid applied/applying to four of these but that has less than zero to do with what is said at DCUM about these schools.

Of their remaining 9 schools, some are mentioned/briefly discussed, a couple if at all ever.

This place is not reality and as it’s anon, I’m not sure how much stock I’ve ever put in what’s discussed here. DCUM can be equal parts funny/helpful/nice or troll/rude/shitpost and I come back hoping for more of the former.

And so...???

Number of times a school was ranked top 20 by US News, last 10 years.

10 Princeton University
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10 Harvard University
10 Yale University
10 Stanford University
10 University of Chicago
10 University of Pennsylvania
10 Johns Hopkins University
10 California Institute of Technology
10 Duke University
10 Northwestern University
10 Dartmouth College
10 Brown University
10 Vanderbilt University
10 Rice University
10 Cornell University
10 Columbia University
10 University of Notre Dame
8 Washington University in St. Louis
7 University of California-Los Angeles
5 University of California-Berkeley
2 Georgetown University
1 Emory University
1 University of Michigan

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:weird, I dont think like DCUM really talks about Columbia much (outside of the protests) or Dartmouth.

AI can be wrong. But it does stupid tasks that people don't have time to do.

ChatGPT won’t scrape the data for me but is willing to guess:

“If I had to guess a top-10 “most talked about” set

UNORDERED and explicitly speculative, based on DCUM’s geography + what shows up in high-traffic threads:
1. University of Maryland–College Park
2. University of Virginia
3. William & Mary
4. Georgetown University
5. George Washington University
6. University of Michigan
7. Northeastern University
8. Harvard
9. Yale
10. Princeton / Stanford / MIT (pick any two; they appear together so often that separating their frequencies without data is impossible)

Again: this is a pattern-based guess, not an actual frequency count.”

PS I think this is wrong. GWU??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:weird, I dont think like DCUM really talks about Columbia much (outside of the protests) or Dartmouth.

AI can be wrong. But it does stupid tasks that people don't have time to do.

ChatGPT won’t scrape the data for me but is willing to guess:

“If I had to guess a top-10 “most talked about” set

UNORDERED and explicitly speculative, based on DCUM’s geography + what shows up in high-traffic threads:
1. University of Maryland–College Park
2. University of Virginia
3. William & Mary
4. Georgetown University
5. George Washington University
6. University of Michigan
7. Northeastern University
8. Harvard
9. Yale
10. Princeton / Stanford / MIT (pick any two; they appear together so often that separating their frequencies without data is impossible)

Again: this is a pattern-based guess, not an actual frequency count.”

Number of times a school was ranked top 20 by US News, last 10 years.

10 Princeton University
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10 Harvard University
10 Yale University
10 Stanford University
10 University of Chicago
10 University of Pennsylvania
10 Johns Hopkins University
10 California Institute of Technology
10 Duke University
10 Northwestern University
10 Dartmouth College
10 Brown University
10 Vanderbilt University
10 Rice University
10 Cornell University
10 Columbia University
10 University of Notre Dame
8 Washington University in St. Louis
7 University of California-Los Angeles
5 University of California-Berkeley
2 Georgetown University
1 Emory University

Number of times a school was ranked top 20 by US News 1984-2025. (40 rankings were released during this period.)

40 Princeton University
40 Harvard University
40 Yale University
40 Stanford University
40 University of Chicago
40 Dartmouth College
39 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
39 Duke University
39 Brown University
39 Cornell University
38 University of Pennsylvania
38 California Institute of Technology
38 Rice University
38 Columbia University
37 Johns Hopkins University
37 Northwestern University
33 Washington University in St. Louis
32 University of Notre Dame
29 Vanderbilt University
21 Emory University
20 University of California-Berkeley
9 University of California-Los Angeles
9 Georgetown University
6 University of Virginia
4 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
2 Carnegie Mellon University
2 University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
1 University of Wisconsin-Madison

I am pretty sure the DCUM list is the usual Ivy+ schools and wherever dear Larlo got in, i.e. Bucknell, Elon, etc. the secret new hot college. . .

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does everyone seem to have this elite fixation that results in a myopic view that fails to acknowledge there are viable public schools that will provide just as good if not better education and a much better ROI. Just because you student were to get accepted into one of these schools this does not guarantee their success in life. Especially for those students who are going to follow the cleanly mowed path cut by lawnmower parents.

I got into one of these schools based on the lawn mowed by my parents, and I've been living a great life.

+1. I got in based on the lawn mown by my great-grandparents, and I must say, my life has been even better than I expected.

You would have had a great life even if you did not go to a top school because of your fore fathers.

Anonymous wrote:No to Wisconsin, Michigan, UVA, UNC, Texas, Emory, USC,UF, Illinois, Tufts, and NYU.

No to Emory but Yes to Bowdoin and UC San Diego?

Anonymous wrote:How is Columbia on this list???

Gee, perhaps because its a top 20 college on all of the lists that DCUM worships, an Ivy with a 250+ year history, could be that. . .