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Anonymous wrote:This list is awesomely…stupid. Duke ahead of Chicago? NYU in Top 25? If this post was started by a college kid on spring break, they need some serious tutoring in the structure of inquiry.

That part is not wrong, Chicago Alum.

I agree with this. Duke should be higher than Chicago.

Anonymous wrote:Forbes ranking is better than WSJ

Forbes has Berkeley as 1 and Univerdity of Florida as 25.

Anonymous wrote:This list is awesomely…stupid. Duke ahead of Chicago? NYU in Top 25? If this post was started by a college kid on spring break, they need some serious tutoring in the structure of inquiry.

That part is not wrong, Chicago Alum.

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Anonymous wrote:This list is awesomely…stupid. Duke ahead of Chicago? NYU in Top 25? If this post was started by a college kid on spring break, they need some serious tutoring in the structure of inquiry.

Take it up with us news and wsj. I'm just a messenger.

And a bad one. You can’t combine these rankings and have any credibility. Get back to class.

Why not? They look more correct than USNews currently does. USNews has Columbia at 2.

Anonymous wrote:Hahaha I went to both NYU and UVA and in no way shape or form is NYU better.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:This list is awesomely…stupid. Duke ahead of Chicago? NYU in Top 25? If this post was started by a college kid on spring break, they need some serious tutoring in the structure of inquiry.

Take it up with us news and wsj. I'm just a messenger.

And a bad one. You can’t combine these rankings and have any credibility. Get back to class.

Anonymous wrote:The top 15 or so look accurate, but it's egregious that Berkeley is not on this list. Would replace somewhere like Emory or Rice or USC with Berkeley, easily.

Rice and Emory have always been ranked higher than Berkeley. USC has only recently passed Berkeley.

Anonymous wrote:This list is awesomely…stupid. Duke ahead of Chicago? NYU in Top 25? If this post was started by a college kid on spring break, they need some serious tutoring in the structure of inquiry.

Take it up with us news and wsj. I'm just a messenger.

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Anonymous wrote:UCB, UCLA, Lac’s like Williams, Amherst are big omissions from your made up list.

Also, unrelated but I typically think of WUSTL, Emory and Tufts together. Not sure when the first two started to get more recognition but guess it relates to their grad programs (and they don’t have to “compete” in a city with Harvard and MIT, haha).

I didn't include LACs because that wouldn't be fair as USNews doesn't combine the lists. UCLA is there, UCB is overrated. Tufts had never been on WashU'd or Emorys level. Only in the minds of delusional new Englanders.

I don’t agree with you about Tufts but this did make me laugh. Signed, a former New Englander

it doesn't matter if you disagree, the rankings agree with me.

The top 15 or so look accurate, but it's egregious that Berkeley is not on this list. Would replace somewhere like Emory or Rice or USC with Berkeley, easily.

Sincere question: how do people come to have such firmly held views on so many colleges? The only colleges I pretend to know anything about are (i) the ones I attended (undergrad and professional school), (ii) what my professional school classmates said about their undergrad experiences, and (iii) the hated rivals of my undergrad, who are clearly satanic. Everything else is pretty numbulous.

This list is awesomely…stupid. Duke ahead of Chicago? NYU in Top 25? If this post was started by a college kid on spring break, they need some serious tutoring in the structure of inquiry.

Hey, I have a great idea: let’s start another college ranking thread!!! I’ll choose two rankings I like, combine them in a hogwash way (even though they use different data and methodologies), and pronounce my results definitive! You game? Then, I’ll invite a bunch of people to quibble over my crappy list. Let’s go!

Anonymous wrote:Colleges and Universities report their stats every year to USNWR; they don't to WSJ,. There are thousands of ranking systems out there because everyone wants to cash in on the campus craziness market. USNWR is the only one that counts

It only counts if the criteria you're looking for in a university are exactly what USNWR uses, which might be true for around three people a year. Otherwise it's a very rough guide at best.

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Anonymous wrote:Revomve NYU

Switch Emory and Notre Dame

No. Notre Dame is not a better school than Emory. It's only top 25 on one ranking while Emory is on both. So no Notre Dame doesn't get the benefit of the doubt.

Sorry USN&WR is the flagship ranking.
Others are supplementary.

So you admit it matters as you call it supplementary. Either way Notre Dame is overrated, it just has a ton of money.

lol yes money buys quality professors and staff, facilities, provides more generous aid to attaract better quiality students, better services, etc.
So the school gets better and better

Notre Dame > Emory

That's why Emorys global USnews ranking is 73 and Notre Dames 211. Right? Notre Dame must be better.

Are you plan to immigrate to other country?

The difference shouldn't be this large.