Another Ranking System 20 Smartest Colleges

[Erin's Dad]

^ That's interesting. Then this international set of rankings for 12K universities would be wrong. WORLD | Ranking Web of Universities

It's actually 2700 four year schools and 1700 two year schools in the US.

Fast Facts

[MiamiDAP]

All ranking means nothing, the only important factor is if UG is a good fit for student's personality and wide range of interest. The student body varies a lot at every school in respect to intellectual level, talent level, social skills, interests, anybody can find their peer group(s) and a really smart kid will look for variety. Otherwise it might be boring experience that will not prepare them for real life situations and will not allow them to grow as a person. Many very intense kids from fancy schools, sorry for language, it is not mine, lack in very important social skills. These are even more important in Grad. School and at work. Those wiht good teamwork expriences who are aware of various personalities have advantage over others with superior intellect in all other aspects.

[dietz199]

Well...at least it is a ranking by people who have no immediate financial interest in college rankings...that in and of itself makes it less suspect than those other rankings...maybe what we need is a ranking of the rankings.. or how about a ranking of those making the rankings of the rankings or...oh never mind ...I always struggled with recursive functions.

[MiamiDAP]

^Yes, ranking fy intself is a topic for ranking and get too much attention, which is basically waste,.....that is why my D. and we did not check any ranking when she was decided about her UG. It would make no input into her decision making. I can see though that some people would love to have certain school name to be attached to theirs for the rest of their lives. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it, pursue any criteria, if certain name is attractive, go ahead, why not? Does it has to do with ranking or the name, I have no idea.

[LoremIpsum]

I do find it rather suspect that MIT landed in first place. Given that the point spread is fairly tiny and that individual skill sets needed to be evaluated and compiled, one wonders if the list designers massaged their data until they came up with a list that looked more legitimate to a general audience.

[Hunt]

Or maybe one really smart MIT kid played this game multiple times using different IP addresses at MIT.

[sewhappy]

Princeton is probably not on the list because the students at Princeton are working their you-know-whats off and don't have the time to participate in the "study."

[bovertine]

Princeton is probably not on the list because the students at Princeton are working their you-know-whats off and don't have the time to participate in the "study."p

Some of them participated because they came in at number 39.

I don't think it's a formal participatory study anyway, I think it comes from the Lumosity game website.

[austinareadad]

^^ Caltech is the elite research university that does not appear. I suppose the "working their...off" applies to the students there as well as anywhere.

[bovertine]

Let me just say two things -
1. This ranking system is sort of dumb, and I can't believe this game really tests raw intelligence.
and
2. Why the heck did you have to post this because I went to the Lumosity website, took the free trial, and now I'm hooked and fighting myself not to sign up. Plus if I do I'll have to fight the temptation to play at work.

BTW - According to this game I'm apparently smarter than I was a couple days ago. The marketers at this website are apparently smart enough to know how to rope egomaniacs like myself in.

[Hunt]

BTW - According to this game I'm apparently smarter than I was a couple days ago. The marketers at this website are apparently smart enough to know how to rope egomaniacs like myself in.

This explains why Caltech isn't on the list--they probably scoffed at the suggestion that anything might make them smarter.

[TheGFG]

^ too funny!