<p>This happens every year. Look at the actual list. A portion of the rankings is based on “alumni giving” and "financial resources and “peer assessment.” That should tell you…its a BEAUTY contest.</p>
<p>Pick your college, embrace it and forget the others. Then move on.</p>
<p>Right…and Stanford allows “Hawaiian Spirituality” as part of its general education requirements…come on man…that is SOOOOO bogus! There is another ranking done by PROFESSIONAL educators and it measures ACADEMICS…and it looks to see what colleges require to graduate: how many literature, language, science, math and social sciences (philosophy, history, sociology, psychology etc.) </p>
<p>You might be surprised.</p>
<p>Just curious if the people that get so worked up about these rankings get so worked up about rankings in general? How about rankings of washing machines in Consumer Reports? How about rankings of cars in Car and Driver? How about rankings of treadmills in Men’s Health? As long as the publication clearly states the ratings criteria, and provides the underlying data used in that criteria, what is the big deal? Do you get upset that a top-ranked car disagrees with your personal opinion because Car and Driver values fuel economy differently than you do? Can’t you just take the rankings and look at the data and form your own personal value-assessment without endless criticism of the published criteria? What is the big deal?</p>
<p>UF acceptance rate 37%</p>
<p>UT Austin acceptance rate 44%</p>
<p>UF boasts higher SAT and GPA averages. </p>
<p>Frankly, they should be ranked above UT, as they likely will in the upcoming years.</p>
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<p>I am actually surprised that you don’t like it, neither does anyone at Stanford. Those classes or IHUMs break everyone’s GPA, no matter how good you are. You have to go through them and get bad grades, and lucky you don’t have to go through this.</p>
<p>“The difference in quality of education between the top 40 schools or so is negligible.”
im sorry that is just not true. </p>
<p>I’m sorry but the first one is true.</p>
<p>It’s totally not true</p>
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<p>Yeah, but UT’s selectivity is severely compromised by the Top 10% rule, which is currently being adjusted so that UT has more flexibility in its admissions practices, which should enable UT to become more selective and subsequently, raise its incoming classes SAT scores and GPAs.</p>
<p>My question to you is, what programs does UF have that are better than UTs?</p>
<p>^ none</p>
<p>ewho’s right. IHUM is tough. You cannot get around it. Stanford’s general education requirement is really strict and demanding. Anyway, it doesn’t matter proving it to other people, I’m quite proud of my education and so are 99.9% of all other Stanford students.</p>
<p>“My question to you is, what programs does UF have that are better than UTs?”</p>
<p>None. The psychotically overzealous UF homers are just taking solace in the fact that they might move a spot or two higher in a meaningless, obviously flawed ranking system eventually.</p>
<p>i actually read this whole thread 
lmao at the USC condoms comment 
but I do agree that US News is trying to please to many people with their ties but I feel that their rankings are somewhat credible at least their business rankings moreso than businessweek IMO. but in looking at rankings in general, what is the best category to look at to show true rankings??</p>
<p>the rankings are based on a formula. ties happen, they’re not created to please people.</p>
<p>My source, mordre, for that little ditty on Stanford’s offerings for general education was an associated press article in a newspaper I read today.</p>
<p>And everything we read in the newspaper is right now isn’t it? Just checked courserank, there’s no such class offered at Stanford unless you got the name wrong.</p>
<p>ghostbuster, frankly, I find your disregard of this “Hawaiian Spirituality” class (if it does exist) a bit judgmental and callous. Who’s to say that an American history/lit course is “tougher”? And besides, most students have studied American history and/or lit in high school. In my opinion, I think it’d be better to get a wider perspective which is what I think having a class like that (which I doubt most kids have taken in high school) is geared towards.</p>
<p>And I don’t mean to bring up that JHU vs. UChi bltchfest again, but I don’t think anyone can really say anything about the classes at a university unless they’ve been enrolled in that class during the academic year. I’m currently a Brown student, and I’ve taken classes at Brown, Hopkins, and a local community college over my past summers, and frankly, they were pretty much the same. My point: all deductions made from having taken classes at the said universities are moot.</p>
<p>Can someone post the top 50 USNWR private universities in the US?</p>
<p>Wow there is a heated battle going on in here. GO CARD!! STANFORD BABY!!</p>
<p>If you have beef with an individual, you can attack the individual.
But, attacking an entire institution is uncalled for.</p>
<p>Fordham is an excellent university, and you should at least remove “Stanford” from your “Location” so that you stop shaming it when you condescend to others.</p>
<p>OMG Stanford is hella expensive. I just looked at my bill. ****tttttt</p>