<p>I want to very strongly agree with bclintonk’s comments on transfer students. Some schools invite literally thousands of students to join their school via this route. Goodness knows what their statistical caliber is, but I think it’s a safe bet that they are not as strong as the enrolled freshmen class for whom statistics are publicly reported and rankings are created. </p>
<p>Here are the numbers of transfer students into the schools ranked in the USNWR Top 50 National Universities:</p>
<h1>of Transfer Students , School</h1>
<p>3321 , UCLA
2128 , U Texas
2036 , UC Berkeley
1875 , UC Davis
1742 , UCSD
1706 , U Florida
1448 , UC Irvine
1345 , U Washington
1276 , U Wisconsin
1273 , UC Santa Barbara
1116 , USC
866 , U Illinois
793 , U North Carolina
779 , U Michigan
736 , NYU
590 , U Virginia
571 , Cornell
380 , Georgia Tech
366 , Penn State
227 , Georgetown
215 , Tulane
197 , U Penn
192 , W&M
190 , Northwestern
171 , Notre Dame
149 , Boston Coll
126 , Vanderbilt
102 , U Rochester
93 , Wash U
92 , Rensselaer
82 , Emory
81 , Columbia
70 , Lehigh
57 , Case Western
56 , Rice
55 , Brown
45 , Wake Forest
44 , Carnegie Mellon
41 , U Chicago
34 , Brandeis
28 , Yale
27 , Tufts
26 , Johns Hopkins
23 , Dartmouth
20 , Stanford
15 , MIT
6 , Caltech
0 , Princeton
na , Harvard
na , Duke
na , Yeshiva</p>
<p>As for the US automakers, their long-running insularity, stupidity and arrogance has finally caught up with them and they’re where they belong…sold, restructuring, or in bankruptcy. Talk about a completely braindead group of companies. Probably the largest collection of untalented managers in all of corporate America.</p>