Papa Chicken post on cc "popularity" and forum views...

<p>Another silly ranking: the “CC Popularity Index” </p>

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<p>Worth very little, but fun to put together…seeing how many VIEWS different Ivies receive here on CC, I started looking to see if some other popular colleges also were viewed with similar volume. However, after I perused a few others, I realized that some of the big state schools must get many views just because they are big and vice-versa. So I built a spreadsheet listing all of CC’s colleges (Ivies, LACs, all others), their corresponding # of VIEWS for the past month, and their full-time undergraduate enrollment from the 2005 US News best colleges, then normalized the number of views by enrollment. The resulting “CC Popularity Index” is calculated by dividing # of Views per month by enrollment. Ranked in order of descending index, here are the top 50:</p>

<p>Rank/ School/ Views per full-time undergrad per month
1 / PRINCETON / 8.17
2 / YALE / 4.77
3 / DARTMOUTH / 3.36
4 / HARVARD / 3.12
5 / COLUMBIA / 3.09
6 / MIT / 2.79
7 / CALTECH / 2.75
8 / BROWN / 2.51
9 / PENN / 2.32
10 / U CHICAGO / 1.96
11 / RICE / 1.90
12 / STANFORD / 1.83
13 / CORNELL / 1.83
14 / SWARTHMORE / 1.69
15 / WILLIAMS / 1.40
16 / GEORGETOWN / 1.36
17 / DUKE / 1.26
18 / AMHERST / 0.90
19 / JHU / 0.83
20 / NORTHWESTERN / 0.75
21 / POMONA / 0.71
22 / WASHINGTON U / 0.62
23 / WELLESLEY / 0.57
24 / Carn Mellon / 0.54
25 / W&L / 0.53
26 / TUFTS / 0.53
27 / BARNARD / 0.52
28 / EMORY / 0.52
29 / HAVERFORD / 0.52
30 / NYU / 0.51
31 / CLAREMONT MCK / 0.50
32 / UC BERKELEY / 0.46
33 / MIDDLEBURY / 0.46
34 / KENYON / 0.46
35 / SMITH / 0.46
36 / BRYN MAWR / 0.42
37 / VASSAR / 0.41
38 / BOWDOIN / 0.39
39 / USC / 0.38
40 / UCLA / 0.35
41 / WESLEYAN / 0.33
42 / CARLETON / 0.31
43 / UVA / 0.30
44 / U MICHIGAN / 0.28
45 / TULANE / 0.26
46 / HARVEY MUDD / 0.24
47 / CASE WESTERN / 0.24
48 / GRINNELL / 0.23
49 / COLGATE / 0.22
50 / BRANDEIS / 0.22</p>

<p>No big surprises, especially at the top end</p>

<p>(A unique feature of the Ivy section)</p>

<p>You know, those safe little retreats where the newly admitted are invited to gather in private to congratulate themselves on their brilliant achievement?</p>

<p>School: Threads: Posts:</p>

<p>Princeton… 92 … 1,914
Cornell … 25 … 231
Brown … 20 … 265
Yale … 20 … 261
Dartmouth 15 … 193
Penn … 12 … 137
Columbia … 10 … 98
Harvard … 3 … 33</p>

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<p>Or, you know, to meet each other, find out invaluable information about what we’re getting into next year, and find out when people are getting mailings so we don’ fall behind ;)</p>

<p>Phil why waste time on all that when we can spend it on being self congratulatory? :D</p>

<p>But I think there’s a Harvard '09 Yahoo group somewhere which is pretty much planning to take over the world :p</p>

<p>Is there no Princeton Yahoo group?</p>

<p>It’s on file but we don’t have any immediate plans for world domination :p</p>

<p>Personally I find the CC subforum a better resource :)</p>

<p>Plus you have the comforting presence of Alumother!</p>

<p><em>relapses into stunned silence</em></p>

<p>Jeez, Princeton board is definitely the cool place to be, I guess. I’ve always enjoyed checking it out, and all you cool Princeton people almost made me apply, even though I knew virtually nothing about the place.</p>

<p>Would you have picked Princeton over Brown if you’d gotten in?</p>

<p>Byerly: can you post your stats and the reason that got you in to Harvard?</p>

<p>I am beginning to wonder if they made a mistake or am wondering if you forgot to take your medication today.</p>

<p>byerly: I have no idea. I really don’t know much about Princeton except its general greatness of reputation. I never even visited. One of my favorite things about Brown though was the open curriculum, which Princeton doesn’t have. So I don’t know. I would have given it a hell of a look though.</p>

<p>“The comforting presence of Alumother”?</p>

<p><em>screams with laughter in her kitchen and has to explain to her family it was nothing important at all, nothing at all</em></p>

<p>Honey, did you really mean to use the word ghetto in this context?</p>

<p>I think its appropriate, don’t you, honey? Albeit of the upscale variety!</p>

<p>“…a special space for those CC members who plan to attend Princeton in 2009!”</p>

<p>i am beginning to think tht byerly dont go to Harvard at all…maybe he is a yalie and this is like one of those practical jokes that yale plays on Harvard…if it is…hats off to Yale…they have surely turned a lot of ppl against their rivals…;)</p>