Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

Good start but missing many other factors.
You also need to look at Yield, applicant quality, retention rate, and graduation rate.

Combination of these provide total desirability.

Please just stop with these non sense responses.

"Top" is a relative word and depends on the context. There is no fixed list of schools. When you speak about engineering then Top 10 includes certain schools, when you speak about law, or medical school the list is completely different.
If you use US News as a reference then search Top 10 schools in Computer Science for example and you'll get a good answer.

For example, nobody will consider good schools like Brown or Dartmouth or even Harvard in Top 10 for Computer Science. Same, nobody will include MIT in Top 10 for law or medical school (I don't even think they have these majors).
So, it is relative and students applying know what's good for their particular interests.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all, my DD is a sophmore in HS so we're just starting to truly think about this college application process (but no, we are not only now starting to think about having a well-rounded kid with a variety of interests, that's been her whole life).

But I'm new to reading this sub, and I see lots of people talk about T10 and T5. Are these the top 10 schools according to US News & World Report? Or where is the "official" list of T10 colleges and universities for undergrad?

OP, you may appreciate this other thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1300946.page

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

yes, these are all the most relevant or in-demand ones, OP!

Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

70% are public schools with a lower price tag, particularly for Californians (most populous state in the US) applying in-state with one application to serve all UCs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

We have a winner for the dumbest post of the mankind history . The simple lack of basic math skills is astounding.

Oh man! Americans are DUMB! I’m embarrassed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

This list is stupid. The UC's have their own version of the common app so all an applicant has to do to apply to every UC is press a button. Northeastern is the hot school of the past decade, Michigan is massive and USC students want to attend a great college in a warm weather environment. But the Ivies and the Ivy+ schools have self-identified themselves as peers. They are in the club and everyone else is on the outside looking in.

The actual Common App also lets students apply with the press of a button, what’s the difference? That’s how people apply now, try to keep up.

NYU is pulling 5x the applications of some of these alleged “top” schools. And they charge $100k a year. Absolutely drowning in applications.

Nobody actually wants to go to Rice, they would need to triple their yearly apps and still wouldn’t place on this list.

I wouldn't look at the number of applicants. NYU's applicant pool is very very different from Harvard's applicant pool. At our school, bottom half kids get into NYU, anyone can submit an application there. But only top kids apply to Rice, and still getting rejected.

Anonymous wrote:Hi all, my DD is a sophmore in HS so we're just starting to truly think about this college application process (but no, we are not only now starting to think about having a well-rounded kid with a variety of interests, that's been her whole life).

But I'm new to reading this sub, and I see lots of people talk about T10 and T5. Are these the top 10 schools according to US News & World Report? Or where is the "official" list of T10 colleges and universities for undergrad?

OP, you may appreciate this other thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1300946.page

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

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all, my DD is a sophmore in HS so we're just starting to truly think about this college application process (but no, we are not only now starting to think about having a well-rounded kid with a variety of interests, that's been her whole life).

But I'm new to reading this sub, and I see lots of people talk about T10 and T5. Are these the top 10 schools according to US News & World Report? Or where is the "official" list of T10 colleges and universities for undergrad?

Depends on people.

DCUM posters: US News.

High school kids committing to colleges: Eight ivies, MIT, Stanford.

Cornell and Dartmouth sneak. They are not T10

There is not a single high school kid in America who thinks this.

Kids applying to selective schools do. They read USNWR just like everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

This list is stupid. The UC's have their own version of the common app so all an applicant has to do to apply to every UC is press a button. Northeastern is the hot school of the past decade, Michigan is massive and USC students want to attend a great college in a warm weather environment. But the Ivies and the Ivy+ schools have self-identified themselves as peers. They are in the club and everyone else is on the outside looking in.

The actual Common App also lets students apply with the press of a button, what’s the difference? That’s how people apply now, try to keep up.

NYU is pulling 5x the applications of some of these alleged “top” schools. And they charge $100k a year. Absolutely drowning in applications.

Nobody actually wants to go to Rice, they would need to triple their yearly apps and still wouldn’t place on this list.

Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

This list is stupid. The UC's have their own version of the common app so all an applicant has to do to apply to every UC is press a button. Northeastern is the hot school of the past decade, Michigan is massive and USC students want to attend a great college in a warm weather environment. But the Ivies and the Ivy+ schools have self-identified themselves as peers. They are in the club and everyone else is on the outside looking in.

All in the eye of the beholder. Below is my T10 (in order). Pretty certain no one else would agree:

Stanford
Princeton
MIT
Harvard
Penn
Cal
Caltech
Yale
Duke
Rice

We need polymarket bet. Parents only. Winner will take the dumbest post of the year

Anonymous wrote:The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

We have a winner for the dumbest post of the year. The simple lack of basic math skills is astounding.

The market speaks, the schools with the MOST APPLICATIONS and therefore the most desirable are:

1. UCLA
2. UC San Diego
3. UC Berkeley
4. UC Irvine
5. NYU
6. UC Santa Barbara
7. Northeastern
8. UC Davis
9. Michigan
10. USC (California)

No games, no semantics. This is where kids are applying in droves.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi all, my DD is a sophmore in HS so we're just starting to truly think about this college application process (but no, we are not only now starting to think about having a well-rounded kid with a variety of interests, that's been her whole life).

But I'm new to reading this sub, and I see lots of people talk about T10 and T5. Are these the top 10 schools according to US News & World Report? Or where is the "official" list of T10 colleges and universities for undergrad?

Depends on people.

DCUM posters: US News.

High school kids committing to colleges: Eight ivies, MIT, Stanford.

Cornell and Dartmouth sneak. They are not T10

There is not a single high school kid in America who thinks this.

There are tons of kids in America who think this.