StPaulHockey's Rankings

College Search & Lists
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<p>Since everyone is doing it, I thought it would be pretty nifty to create my own rankings based on what I want in a university. Amazingly, after calculating out all the numbers and crap, the list came out essentially in the order the way I would rank the schools from most desirable to least desirable. Basically, I took the US News top 100 schools and ranked them in four categories, each weighted equally:</p>

<p>-Selectivity
-Academics
-Bigtime Sports
-Funness/Coolness</p>

<p>I rated each school one to ten in each category (in the above order) and then totaled it. This is what I got:</p>

<li> Duke (9 10 10 10) 39</li>
<li> Notre Dame (9 9 10 9) 37</li>
<li> UCLA (8 9 10 10) 37</li>
<li> Stanford (10 10 7 9) 36</li>
<li> Vanderbilt (9 9 9 9) 36</li>
<li> Virginia (7 9 9 10) 35</li>
<li> USC (7 8 10 10) 35</li>
<li> UNC (7 7 10 10) 34</li>
<li> Michigan (6 8 10 10) 34</li>
<li>Texas (6 8 10 10) 34</li>
<li>Yale (10 10 5 8) 33</li>
<li>Boston College (7 8 9 9) 33</li>
<li>Harvard (10 10 5 8) 32</li>
<li>UC Berkeley (9 10 7 6) 32</li>
<li>Northwestern (9 9 7 7) 32</li>
<li>UW Madison (5 7 10 10) 32</li>
<li>UPenn (9 10 7 7) 31</li>
<li>Dartmouth (9 10 5 7) 31</li>
<li>Rice (8 10 7 6) 31</li>
<li>Penn State (4 7 10 10) 31</li>
<li>Princeton (10 10 5 5) 30</li>
<li>Wake Forest (7 8 8 7) 30</li>
<li>Georgia (4 6 10 10) 30</li>
<li>Florida (6 6 9 9) 30</li>
<li>Coumbia (10 10 3 5) 28</li>
<li>Cornell (9 9 5 5) 28</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins (9 9 5 5) 28</li>
<li>Georgetown (8 8 6 6) 28</li>
<li>Tulane (7 7 5 9) 28</li>
<li>Clemson (3 7 10 8) 28</li>
<li>Brown (10 10 3 3) 26</li>
<li>Washington (5 6 7 8) 26</li>
<li>Texas A&M (5 5 8 8) 26</li>
<li>Miami (5 5 7 9) 26</li>
<li>Georgia Tech (5 7 8 5) 25</li>
<li>MIT (10 10 1 3) 24</li>
<li>CalTech (10 10 1 2) 23</li>
<li>WashU (8 9 4 3) 23</li>
<li>Miami-Ohio (5 5 7 6) 23</li>
<li>Emory (8 8 3 3) 22</li>
<li>William & Mary (7 9 4 3) 22</li>
<li>Lehigh (6 6 6 4) 22</li>
<li>Minnesota (4 5 8 5)</li>
<li>Indiana (4 6 7 5) 22</li>
<li>Chicago (8 10 1 2) 21</li>
<li>UC Santa Barbara (5 6 5 5) 21</li>
<li>Maryland (5 5 7 4) 21</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon (9 8 2 1) 20</li>
<li>Brandeis (8 8 2 2) 20</li>
<li>UC San Diego (6 7 4 3) 20</li>
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<p>Pretty good ranking, eh. Feel free to congradulate me on my brilliance. I think US News should just hand over their whole ranking operation to me. Immediatly.</p>

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<p>Why judge a school on sports and “coolness”. All rankings are overrated!</p>

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<p>Because some people (<em>cough</em>me<em>cough</em>) want a school with sports and coolness. And if you are one of those people, this is THE ranking for you.</p>

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<p>I don’t mind sports, but don’t want to go to a school where it’s all about sports.</p>

5

<p>You underrated Miami-OH, especially since it has hockey too. You overrated Penn. A 7 for sports? No way.</p>

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<p>Based on coolness? I imagine you must have nothing else worthwhile to do in your life.</p>

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<p>Funny, when I read the name of this thread “StPaulHockey’s Ranking” I thought you were ranking according to college hockey teams. In that case, you’d have to bump-up rankings of 9, 12 & 26 (in my humble, hockey mom, opinion).</p>

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<p>Why not? He’s not trying to be objective about anything; it’s clear from his “selectivity” category that these rankings are just his observations/sentiments about the schools. </p>

<p>Some day he may also learn to spell too. You never know.</p>

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<p>And BU would of course have to enter the list at the top. What a great championship game!</p>

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<p>I may think one school is cool and you may think it is not. Also, UPENN is not big on sports and I agree with dion.</p>

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<p>Actually, Penn has the eighth-winningest men’s basketball program of all-time. They just haven’t had a very good team since the 90’s and the Big 5. </p>

<p>Maybe not worthy of a 7 recently, but still not a school completely devoid of athletic tradition.</p>

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<p>I don’t understand people who rate UVA, ND, UCLA, and Vanderbilt over Michigan for academics. It’s just not true. Also when you have schools that are the same score, they should rank equally. Thus ND and UCLA should both be #2. Stanford and Vanderbilt tied for #4. Etc.</p>