Princeton Review 2010 Rankings just released

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<p>The site is being hammered now, but coinciding with the release of Princeton Review’s “Best 371 Colleges” 2010 Edition tomorrow, the rankings have been updated online this morning.</p>

<p>Here’s a few news articles:</p>

<p>[Princeton</a> Review’s Annual College Rankings Based on 122,000 Student Survey Now Out in ‘The Best 371 Colleges - 2010 Edition’](<a href=“http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-27-2009/0005066672&EDATE=]Princeton”>http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-27-2009/0005066672&EDATE=)
[The</a> Associated Press: List of top party schools by Princeton Review](<a href=“http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hf1OzYtDCj2ONpeWlGL6npO-4zggD99MUC204]The”>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hf1OzYtDCj2ONpeWlGL6npO-4zggD99MUC204)</p>

<p>I know Princeton Review’s rankings are always especially controversial since they’re just based on student interviews.</p>

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<h2>Just as I suspected. When you do a survey that asks the kids about the partying the U of Miami is nowhere on the list. That Playboy list was so bogus because it factored in things like “days of sunshine” and “brains”.</h2>

<p>List of top party schools by Princeton Review
By The Associated Press (AP) – 1 hour ago</p>

<p>The nation’s top party schools, according to Princeton Review’s 2009 survey of 122,000 students.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Penn State University, State College, Pa.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Mississippi, University, Miss.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.</p></li>
<li><p>Ohio University, Athens, Ohio</p></li>
<li><p>West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Texas, Austin, Texas</p></li>
<li><p>University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.</p></li>
<li><p>Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.</p></li>
<li><p>University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa</p></li>
<li><p>Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.</p></li>
<li><p>Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.</p></li>
<li><p>DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.</p></li>
<li><p>University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.</p></li>
<li><p>Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.</p></li>
<li><p>University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.</p></li>
<li><p>Tulane University, New Orleans, La.</p></li>
<li><p>Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved</p>

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<p>I always like seeing how drastically college campuses apparently change in the course of one year. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>Wagner #4 -> #19
Richmond #8 -> #20
Sewanee #20 -> #5</p>

<p>Disappeared
Holy Cross #10
Elon #11
Bennington #15
Loyala Marymount #16
Warren Wilson #17
College of the Atlantic #18
Samford #19 </p>

<p>Appeared
Lewis & Clark #9
St. Mary’s #12
Vassar #13
Stonehill #14
Swarthmore #16
Rollins #17
Wittenberg #18</p>

<p>Most of the other “rankings,” such college libraries, are equally fickle. It makes me sad to think of all the deluded souls (including many on this forum) who take them seriously. :frowning: :eek:</p>

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<p>This is great, I’ll make sure to look through all the rankings today.</p>

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<p>I just looked over the “most popular study abroad” list. Unlike the other rankings, which can perhaps be excused on subjective grounds, the study abroad list is simply wrong. Even as the result of a survey, the “ranking” is absolute rubbish. </p>

<p>Colby’s 63% over Goucher’s 100%?</p>

<p>Lewis & Clark’s 62% over Elon’s 90% (unranked)?</p>

<p>Georgetown’s 52% over Denver’s 74% (unranked)?</p>

<p>What are these people smoking? :confused:</p>

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<p>PrinctonLOLReview</p>

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<p>I will be looking for their other release tomorrow also, though I’m also looking forward to USNEWS ranking release ( which I’ve heard will be release in August… but when).</p>

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<p>That would be August 18th.</p>

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<p>anyone have a link to see all the rankings w/o a username and password??</p>

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<p>If you are here looking for rankings then you are sadly deluded about the importance of college and the true purpose of a college education in life. Good luck with that.</p>

<p>It should not matter to anyone where “their college” is on the rankings. It should only matter if that college is meeting your needs personally and you are growing as a person, learning as much as you can in these four “short” years (because taxes, adult life, job pressures, kids, mortgages, bills…and YOUR kids college education follow after you graduate!)</p>

<p>I went to a very good private school that is consistently ranked in the top of masters colleges in its region. But I would not trade my four years of college with any school or anyone for any reason. Its all relative and its relative to YOU.</p>

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<p>^ loser attitude. so sad</p>

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<p>^ no</p>

<p>Djhdjdjdjddujd</p>

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<p>Yeah, I agree. But just ONE sentence earlier you tossed in this:</p>

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<p>Anyway, are we not allowed to be curious as to what the rankings are? Are we not allowed to look at the rankings just for laughs?</p>

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<p>A little contradictory with yourself ghostbuster, but I didn’t realize that because I’m curious enough to see them that that means that I put any weight behind their methodology of ranking, I’m merely interested in witnessing the list that so many people will undoubtedly flock towards when making THEIR college decisions.</p>

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<p>I agree with ghostbuster. The decision should not be made solely based on rankings, as all rankings are subjective, but I definitely agree that “top” students should be shooting for the more prestigious and rigorous schools. Not all of them, but the ones that they could see themselves at.</p>

<p>Anyways, the Princeton Review rankings are nonsense.</p>

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<p>CONGRATULATIONS to Penn State!</p>

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<p>WUSTL no longer best quality of life? I knew things were going downhill when several of the hundreds of plasma TVs in the student center were removed :(</p>

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<p>Who really takes the Princeton review rankings seriously. Of course there will be bitter students doing these surveys that will go “hey how about giving this school some F*'s” out of frustration. As shallow as USNWR rankinsg are, at least they give it “some” logical thought.</p>

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<p>Sorry WUStL, looks like Rice has got your number :D</p>

<p>And HoL, ummm that’s kind of the point, to let dissatisfied students voice their opinions just as loudly as the ones who love it. This is assuming that the students at a school know the school better than outsiders. </p>

<p>If a couple of “Fs” show up as you say, it’s not too big of a deal. But when a large, large number or even a majority of respondents reply in the negative, that’s when a closer look is warranted.</p>