Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR needs to keep adjusting their methodology to try and stay interesting and relevant. What I don't understand is why they released it 9/17 when they said it was supposed to be 9/18.

Are you STILL hung up on this?? It's the night before the release date - they probably just decided to go with it on a Sunday evening. Good grief.

University of Alabama is now #170. It’s even below UAB!

Anonymous wrote:He new rankings are a joke. Every state flagship is now a top 50. UC Davis at 28.

+1. With each tweak of the formula to push up publics, the ranking gets further away from decades of reputational prestige.

Not that there's anything wrong with the publics. The ultimate demise of overemphasis on prestige may be the ranking itself.

Anonymous wrote:He new rankings are a joke. Every state flagship is now a top 50. UC Davis at 28.

This, yall really believe UCDavis is peer schools with Emory, WashU, Carnegie Mellon???
Like be for real! This is horrible, only elite schools should be on the T30. Private schools don't know which students are Pell grant students it's unfair to judge them on that. They provide great financial aid to the Pell grant students they do have yet don't get rewarded for that.

Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR needs to keep adjusting their methodology to try and stay interesting and relevant. What I don't understand is why they released it 9/17 when they said it was supposed to be 9/18.

Every year they upload the new rankings on the evening before. That's why people were looking for it.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR needs to keep adjusting their methodology to try and stay interesting and relevant. What I don't understand is why they released it 9/17 when they said it was supposed to be 9/18.

That's your biggest issue?

Yep, otherwise much ado about nothing.

Alabama and VCU are ranked the same - 142

Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR needs to keep adjusting their methodology to try and stay interesting and relevant. What I don't understand is why they released it 9/17 when they said it was supposed to be 9/18.

That's your biggest issue?

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Anonymous wrote:If this is 2024 ranking, then it was a lot of noise about nothing. The majority of top colleges did not change much: up or down a few notches. Big whoopee.

Read beyond the top 15, it’s basically all public universities.

Not true. Lots of privates.

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Anonymous wrote:All the ivys except Dartmouth moved up. Surprised by a few like UNC and UMich and poor WashU. Disappointed in Emory thought they would move up to 20.

UMich should be at the same ranking level as UCLA and Berkeley. It's more well rounded academically and geographically.

I agree academically, but Michigan also has about 50% of its undergrads paying full freight to attend. The vast majority of all the UC schools are instate

All the more reason it should get positive points for that, no? It's more geographically diverse and i thought that was supposed to be a good thing.

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame remains in top 20 despite the constant chatter that they will be knocked down lol.

It will as the swell to get of legacy admissions continues.

I guess USNWR needs to keep adjusting their methodology to try and stay interesting and relevant. What I don't understand is why they released it 9/17 when they said it was supposed to be 9/18.

Notre Dame remains in top 20 despite the constant chatter that they will be knocked down lol.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA moves up from 25 to 24!

Or down to 27.

It all depends on your POV.

Weirdo. It was tied for 25th last year, so it went up.

Elon drops from 89 to 133!