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11-08-2012, 12:22 AM
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| The 20 Smartest Colleges In America
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11-08-2012, 12:49 AM
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Here's the PDF of the full ranking: http://blog.lumosity.com/wp-content/...t-Colleges.pdf
Wow, Brown, Princeton and Columbia all do poorly, as do Michigan and JHU.
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11-08-2012, 01:07 AM
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wow ,intresting
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11-08-2012, 01:25 AM
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Thanks for the follow-up PDF file of the full ranking, beyphy! 
Although I believe "Ohio Northern" at #49 should be replaced with #85 Ohio State for accuracy in terms of smartness. Nonetheless, I am content with the fact that tOSU is still ranked ahead of schools such as NYU, USC & Georgetown. I guess I should simply concede that Ohio Northern kids are great gamers. 
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11-08-2012, 07:44 AM
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They ranked Rollins(90) higher than UF(99) and UC - Irvine(113). Nuff said imo.
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11-08-2012, 08:41 AM
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It's a game. Who knows what students volunteered to play. And it surveys 400/3000+ colleges which means little.
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11-08-2012, 09:39 AM
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Wow, Boston College at 25th pummels Georgetown (121st), and even Notre Dame (35th)! How can that BE?! Surely GU can put up better numbers than that!
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11-08-2012, 09:47 AM
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Let us see now:
#13 Portland
#27 U of Pacific
#42 Butler
#49 Ohio Northern
#52 Cornell
#59 Michigan
#61 Columbia (whaaat???!!!)
#65 Middlebury
#115 USC
#122 Georgetown
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11-08-2012, 12:55 PM
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The survey does seem to employ a rigorous methodology. Its interesting that the University of Pacific does so well while Columbia does so poorly.
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11-08-2012, 01:15 PM
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^^^Just as I thought; Rose-Hulman is indeed "smarter" than Duke.
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11-08-2012, 01:45 PM
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This ranking is laughable. Northeastern smarter than Princeton? Pacific and BU smarter than Brown? Portland smater than Chicago? Columbia and Cornell out of the top 50? Georgetown and USC out of the top 100?
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11-08-2012, 06:20 PM
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I like this ranking.  | |
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11-08-2012, 06:49 PM
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I like it too (and have no trouble believing that some subset of students at Northeastern, Pacific, or BU have some stronger cognitive abilities than some subset of students at Princeton, Brown or Chicago.)
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11-08-2012, 07:15 PM
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That's like comparing apples and oranges honestly...You can't say they're smartest...You can just say they're best at those games...Just like IQ isn't intelligence...It's logic ability...
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11-08-2012, 09:42 PM
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It's a game. Who knows what students volunteered to play.
| I was thinking along similar lines this morning. Specifically, i wondered how semester (16 week) schools faired versus quarter (10 week) schools. My last quarter at UCLA, i had like 8 continuous weeks of papers to write (not including finals.) If i were in this situation (assuming i'd even heard about something like this) it would have been hard to take seriously. Quote: |
Columbia and Cornell out of the top 50?
| Michigan out of the top 50? (Come on, we all know you were thinking it )
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