Anonymous
06/13/2026 21:26
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Notable Omissions
Carleton
Grinnell
Vassar
Notable Inclusion
DePauw
Insane to have Macalester, Kenyon and Scripps included instead! what the heck??
Note that Kenyon does not appear in the site.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 21:22
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:the ranking is more accurate if you break down by categories. someone did the top 10 publics above, but here are the top 10 privates and LACs:
Harvard
Stanford
UPenn
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Duke
Columbia
UChicago
Dartmouth
Williams
Amherst
Pomona
Swarthmore
CMC
Harvey Mudd
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Colgate
Meaningless list of LACs without Carleton or Vassar or Grinell at all in the top 100.
But hey, they do include Pitzer, Scripps and Oxy so maybe they just have a strong preference for LACs in California? So stupid.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 21:21
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Notable Omissions
Carleton
Grinnell
Vassar
Notable Inclusion
DePauw
Insane to have Macalester, Kenyon and Scripps included instead! what the heck??
Anonymous
06/13/2026 20:14
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
This isn’t a great way to compare the rankings, because the new list mashes three USNews lists together.
If you take the SLACs and state universities out, the new list looks a lot more like the USNews research university list.
PP here. This was my intention. I removed the SLACs but kept the public schools in to make it only National Universities to see them head to head.
But why? You already have a million lists like that
The new ranking already accomplishes melding the different types of schools. I pulled out the SLACS specifically for the purpose of comparing the rankings of national universities. Feel free to do the same for the SLACS. I'm just not interested in those.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 20:01
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
This isn’t a great way to compare the rankings, because the new list mashes three USNews lists together.
If you take the SLACs and state universities out, the new list looks a lot more like the USNews research university list.
PP here. This was my intention. I removed the SLACs but kept the public schools in to make it only National Universities to see them head to head.
But why? You already have a million lists like that
Anonymous
06/13/2026 17:09
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
The UT Austin ranking is incorrect though!
No it's not.
I am the one who posted the list. The US News ranking of UT Austin is incorrect. It should be 30.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 17:07
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
This isn’t a great way to compare the rankings, because the new list mashes three USNews lists together.
If you take the SLACs and state universities out, the new list looks a lot more like the USNews research university list.
PP here. This was my intention. I removed the SLACs but kept the public schools in to make it only National Universities to see them head to head.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 15:57
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Let's be honest. Princeton is way overrated and they accept lots of scam artists.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 15:48
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
The UT Austin ranking is incorrect though!
No it's not.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 15:25
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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...
My bet is a Duke grad.
And I’ll bet a Tulsa or Alabama grad did the MAGA-oriented list.
But, MAGA-osity aside: It’s nice to see a range of Midwestern and Southern schools on the MAGA list.
I would like to see people talk more about Baylor, Drake, Tulsa, Creighton, St. Louis University and other schools that might be in the American University or Catholic University tier, but in other parts of the country.
Example: Is Tulsa a fun option for a half-pay DMV student with a 3.5 GPA, 1100 on the SATs and a good attitude, or is it in a boring suburban wasteland?
Is Drake or Creighton an OK ultra safety for a student who’d be majoring in history at Georgetown?
Are those schools actually MAGA, or just not extremely liberal?
Neither Penn nor Duke grad, but most likely USC grad 😉
Anonymous
06/13/2026 15:24
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
The UT Austin ranking is incorrect though!
Anonymous
06/13/2026 15:23
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
This isn’t a great way to compare the rankings, because the new list mashes three USNews lists together.
If you take the SLACs and state universities out, the new list looks a lot more like the USNews research university list.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 15:19
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote: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...
My bet is a Duke grad.
And I’ll bet a Tulsa or Alabama grad did the MAGA-oriented list.
But, MAGA-osity aside: It’s nice to see a range of Midwestern and Southern schools on the MAGA list.
I would like to see people talk more about Baylor, Drake, Tulsa, Creighton, St. Louis University and other schools that might be in the American University or Catholic University tier, but in other parts of the country.
Example: Is Tulsa a fun option for a half-pay DMV student with a 3.5 GPA, 1100 on the SATs and a good attitude, or is it in a boring suburban wasteland?
Is Drake or Creighton an OK ultra safety for a student who’d be majoring in history at Georgetown?
Are those schools actually MAGA, or just not extremely liberal?
Anonymous
06/13/2026 14:52
Subject: Re:another rankings list. I don't hate it
I had Claude compare US News National Universities with this new ranking. See below.
Anonymous
06/13/2026 13:48
Subject: another rankings list. I don't hate it
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:the ranking is more accurate if you break down by categories. someone did the top 10 publics above, but here are the top 10 privates and LACs:
Harvard
Stanford
UPenn
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Duke
Columbia
UChicago
Dartmouth
Williams
Amherst
Pomona
Swarthmore
CMC
Harvey Mudd
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Middlebury
Colgate
JHU and Northwestern are T10, not Columbia or Dartmouth.
Hurr-durr. I see we have a dedicated US News subscriber here.