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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.

What gives you the expertise to make this assessment?? Do you know anything about Merced? Or any other school for that matter?

Anonymous wrote:Here are the 2026 ranking factors and their relative weights:

National Universities 2026 Best Colleges Ranking Factor Weights
Indicator

2026 National Universities Weight for Schools With Usable SAT/ACT

Graduation rates

16%

First-year retention rates

5%

Graduation rate performance

10%

Pell graduation rates

5.5%

Pell graduation performance

5.5%

College grads earning more than a high school grad

5%

Borrower debt

5%

Peer assessment

20%

Financial resources per student

8%

Faculty salaries

6%

Full-time faculty

2%

Student-faculty ratio

3%

Standardized tests

5%

Citations per publication

1.25%

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

1.25%

Publication share in the Top 5% of Journals by CiteScore

1%

Publication share in the Top 25% of Journals by CiteScore

0.5%

TOTAL

100

Anonymous wrote:Let me try again for U Chicago. Look at the ranking factors. For each category in the rankings this year, Chicago may have improved or not improved. However, in the aggregate across all categories, Chicago must have performed better than the other universities in the national category, by these measurable factors, or it would not have risen back to #6.

It's math.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:So it makes sense that Chicago would rise in the rankings back to #6, where they were a couple of years ago, given these factors are all related to academic quality/peer assessment/
research/undergraduate graduation rates, so back to the core of what makes UChicago so great.

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Anonymous wrote:Low lying ivy protagonists don’t comprehend…bottom 4 ivies are nothing to write home about.. WAKE UP doofuses!

They are 2 and 3 in best undergrad teaching, doofus. There’s also fit.

+1 my kid chose over Hopkins. Didn’t want Baltimore and Chicago was a no-go.

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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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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.

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

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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.