Anonymous wrote:"This is incoherent."

In that you were challenged in formatting your post, your impression should not be surprising.

No your post is just incoherent. You brought up pairings arbitrarily and the explanation is a word salad.

"This is incoherent."

In that you were challenged in formatting your post, your impression should not be surprising.

Anonymous wrote:Notable Omissions

Carleton
Grinnell
Vassar

Notable Inclusion

DePauw

Agree 100%. This list is ridiculous.

Wharton has extraordinary outcomes. A&S not so much.

(no kid at Penn, but wondering if place on list is about Wharton exclusively)

Notable Omissions

Carleton
Grinnell
Vassar

Notable Inclusion

DePauw

Anonymous wrote:Penn ahead of MIT, Princeton and yale? GTFOH
Dartmouth ahead of CalTech? GTFOH

This list makes USNWR look decent.

How about YOU GTFOH?

USC and Michigan are both way too high.

So Carleton College did not make the top 100 list?

But Pitzer is 79, Oxy is 81, Macalester is 84 and Colorado College is 90?

Seems like a pretty notable omission.

Not a bad list, but why so many LACs in top 50? Feels like the LACs are diluting an otherwise solid list.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notable Pairings

Williams
Amherst

W&L
Davidson

Bates
Colby

Bucknell
Lafayette
[/quote]
What do you mean by pairings?[/quote]
The schools in each pair are ranked adjacent to each other. This seems notable for these particular pairs of colleges in that the schools in them are often informally considered together as well.[/quote]
This is incoherent.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Proof that lacs still can't make it to the top

They are the top for undergraduate education.

There’s no proof of this

USNWR is the only ranking that matters, like it or not.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notable Pairings

Williams
Amherst

W&L
Davidson

Bates
Colby

Bucknell
Lafayette

What do you mean by pairings?

The schools in each pair are ranked adjacent to each other. This seems notable for these particular pairs of colleges in that the schools in them are often informally considered together as well.

Anonymous wrote:This correctly recalibrates some schools, e.g., JHU, but obviously the work of a Penn grad.

Lol Penn makes reasonable sense considering the metrics used as well as other sources not directly used here(top researchers list Clarivate, test required SAT data, Average starting salary)
My first thought was it was a Dartmouth grad made this...

Anonymous wrote:Looks more reasonable than US News.

For the most part it is better. Certainly the metrics used are metrics that matter for outcomes. In general though, its a shuffle of the same ivy+ type-top15 schools. All these schools keep coming up over and over as worth it. My kids' three schools are all still in the top 10 as they are on almost all of these lists.