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Post 09/23/2025 11:13     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

Anonymous wrote:Privates and Publics should be ranked separately like LACs.

Agree. They are often different applicant pools anyway.
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Post 09/23/2025 11:13     Subject: Re:New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Go UC Davis! California’s 5th best state school, with a 42% admit rate, is ranked #32 in the country.

How many times can a shark be jumped?


UC Davis is an excellent, all around school, with a charming college town setting, without toxic, competitive students.

In California, it is considered too far from the coast, from the mountains, from SF, even though it would be considered close to them if it were on the east coast.


Davis is a great school. Better than many overpriced privates like wake, emory, and georgetown.

UC Davis-
1160- 1370/25-31
Emory
1470-1550/32-35
Georgetown
1390-1550/30-35

UC Davis is overrated, Emory and GU underrated.


Davis a great school but not in same category by a mile.

According to USNWR, it is. How does your data/analysis differ?

Davis is not T25. Thats Emory's and GUs category.

24 to 32 is not a big difference

15 to 24 isnt a big numerical difference either. But I assume you won't say Emory and Columbia are peers. Ironically Emory and Berkeley are peer schools with similar selectivity. Davis is not nor ever will be.


Different poster here and actually I would say they are peers. As would any rational adult aside from the college rankings obsessed nut jobs.
They are both R1 reearch universities with top notch kids, fantastic professors, lovely campuses, deep resources, excellent pre-med and pre-law results, well-trod paths to Wall Street, high incomes after graduation, etc.
I have no connection to either (well actually my kid was admitted to Columbia and waitlisted in perpetuity to Emory but attends neither) but I'm a rational human. Emory vs Columbia will not impact anyone's life one iota.
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Post 09/23/2025 11:09     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

Privates and Publics should be ranked separately like LACs.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 11:05     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Replace Umich and ND with Emory and Georgetown


wrong

Not wrong both are better and harder to get into.


Pick a random kid at a local Catholic high school and ask them whether ND or Georgetown is a harder admit.


This. At my kid's HS, both schools have high acceptance rates relative to national stats. Georgetown is always a higher acceptance rate every year. Last year Georgetown was 44% and ND was 34%.


Georgetown also didn't use the Common App, which means kids are self-selecting out of applying which impacts that number.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:44     Subject: Re:New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Go UC Davis! California’s 5th best state school, with a 42% admit rate, is ranked #32 in the country.

How many times can a shark be jumped?


UC Davis is an excellent, all around school, with a charming college town setting, without toxic, competitive students.

In California, it is considered too far from the coast, from the mountains, from SF, even though it would be considered close to them if it were on the east coast.


Davis is a great school. Better than many overpriced privates like wake, emory, and georgetown.

UC Davis-
1160- 1370/25-31
Emory
1470-1550/32-35
Georgetown
1390-1550/30-35

UC Davis is overrated, Emory and GU underrated.


Davis a great school but not in same category by a mile.

According to USNWR, it is. How does your data/analysis differ?

Davis is not T25. Thats Emory's and GUs category.

24 to 32 is not a big difference

Rankings work in tiers. You clearly have no idea how hard it would be or how much money it would need to raise to add 8 points to its ranking to be where the other 2 are.

You clearly have no idea how to read rankings. Their is not an 8 point difference.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2025 10:35     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

William and Mary is underrated. Virginia residents are so lucky.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:33     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.

Berkeley- 20-25
UCLA, Umcih, UVa- 25-30
UNC-30-35
GT,UT UCSD, UF, UCD- 35-45


What are you even saying? This makes no sense.

Also, quit trying to lump UVA in with UCLA and Michigan.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:23     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.

Berkeley- 20-25
UCLA, Umcih, UVa- 25-30
UNC-30-35
GT,UT UCSD, UF, UCD- 35-45
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Post 09/23/2025 10:23     Subject: Re:New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Go UC Davis! California’s 5th best state school, with a 42% admit rate, is ranked #32 in the country.

How many times can a shark be jumped?


UC Davis is an excellent, all around school, with a charming college town setting, without toxic, competitive students.

In California, it is considered too far from the coast, from the mountains, from SF, even though it would be considered close to them if it were on the east coast.


Davis is a great school. Better than many overpriced privates like wake, emory, and georgetown.

UC Davis-
1160- 1370/25-31
Emory
1470-1550/32-35
Georgetown
1390-1550/30-35

UC Davis is overrated, Emory and GU underrated.


Davis a great school but not in same category by a mile.

According to USNWR, it is. How does your data/analysis differ?

Davis is not T25. Thats Emory's and GUs category.

24 to 32 is not a big difference

Rankings work in tiers. You clearly have no idea how hard it would be or how much money it would need to raise to add 8 points to its ranking to be where the other 2 are.

1) Attract more poors to your school (or Questbridge kids fraudulently claiming to be poor)
2) subsidize starting salary for the poors after graduation
That’s the ranking, folks.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:21     Subject: Re:New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Go UC Davis! California’s 5th best state school, with a 42% admit rate, is ranked #32 in the country.

How many times can a shark be jumped?


UC Davis is an excellent, all around school, with a charming college town setting, without toxic, competitive students.

In California, it is considered too far from the coast, from the mountains, from SF, even though it would be considered close to them if it were on the east coast.


Davis is a great school. Better than many overpriced privates like wake, emory, and georgetown.

UC Davis-
1160- 1370/25-31
Emory
1470-1550/32-35
Georgetown
1390-1550/30-35

UC Davis is overrated, Emory and GU underrated.


Davis a great school but not in same category by a mile.

According to USNWR, it is. How does your data/analysis differ?

Davis is not T25. Thats Emory's and GUs category.

24 to 32 is not a big difference

15 to 24 isnt a big numerical difference either. But I assume you won't say Emory and Columbia are peers. Ironically Emory and Berkeley are peer schools with similar selectivity. Davis is not nor ever will be.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:20     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

Anonymous wrote:Lol at all the posters on here losing it over a college ranking service. There are multiple ranking services. This freaking thing is already at 29 pages. Get a life

Is this a morning projection/self-affirmation, Stuart Smalley? What does your mirror say?
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Post 09/23/2025 10:19     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

Anonymous wrote:Lol at all the posters on here losing it over a college ranking service. There are multiple ranking services. This freaking thing is already at 29 pages. Get a life


You get a life, Karen.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:19     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

Lol at all the posters on here losing it over a college ranking service. There are multiple ranking services. This freaking thing is already at 29 pages. Get a life
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Post 09/23/2025 10:17     Subject: New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Still vastly overranks public’s especially the underfunded uc system. Until the undo the changes from two years ago, garbage in, garbage out.

All of the publics are 5 spots too high.

Not Virginia or William and Mary though. William and Mary should be about 10 higher. Merced? 40 lower? Any other UC school, 10 lower. Including Berkeley and UCLA.
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Post 09/23/2025 10:16     Subject: Re:New USNWR rankings coming out in one week. Post predictions here!

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Anonymous wrote:Go UC Davis! California’s 5th best state school, with a 42% admit rate, is ranked #32 in the country.

How many times can a shark be jumped?


UC Davis is an excellent, all around school, with a charming college town setting, without toxic, competitive students.

In California, it is considered too far from the coast, from the mountains, from SF, even though it would be considered close to them if it were on the east coast.


Davis is a great school. Better than many overpriced privates like wake, emory, and georgetown.

UC Davis-
1160- 1370/25-31
Emory
1470-1550/32-35
Georgetown
1390-1550/30-35

UC Davis is overrated, Emory and GU underrated.


Davis a great school but not in same category by a mile.

According to USNWR, it is. How does your data/analysis differ?

Davis is not T25. Thats Emory's and GUs category.

24 to 32 is not a big difference

Rankings work in tiers. You clearly have no idea how hard it would be or how much money it would need to raise to add 8 points to its ranking to be where the other 2 are.