StPaulHockey's Rankings

StPaulHockey
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:24:05 +0000

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:

-Selectivity
-Academics
-Bigtime Sports
-Funness/Coolness

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

Duke (9 10 10 10) 39
Notre Dame (9 9 10 9) 37
UCLA (8 9 10 10) 37
Stanford (10 10 7 9) 36
Vanderbilt (9 9 9 9) 36
Virginia (7 9 9 10) 35
USC (7 8 10 10) 35
UNC (7 7 10 10) 34
Michigan (6 8 10 10) 34
Texas (6 8 10 10) 34
Yale (10 10 5 8) 33
Boston College (7 8 9 9) 33
Harvard (10 10 5 8) 32
UC Berkeley (9 10 7 6) 32
Northwestern (9 9 7 7) 32
UW Madison (5 7 10 10) 32
UPenn (9 10 7 7) 31
Dartmouth (9 10 5 7) 31
Rice (8 10 7 6) 31
Penn State (4 7 10 10) 31
Princeton (10 10 5 5) 30
Wake Forest (7 8 8 7) 30
Georgia (4 6 10 10) 30
Florida (6 6 9 9) 30
Coumbia (10 10 3 5) 28
Cornell (9 9 5 5) 28
Johns Hopkins (9 9 5 5) 28
Georgetown (8 8 6 6) 28
Tulane (7 7 5 9) 28
Clemson (3 7 10 8) 28
Brown (10 10 3 3) 26
Washington (5 6 7 8) 26
Texas A&M (5 5 8 8) 26
Miami (5 5 7 9) 26
Georgia Tech (5 7 8 5) 25
MIT (10 10 1 3) 24
CalTech (10 10 1 2) 23
WashU (8 9 4 3) 23
Miami-Ohio (5 5 7 6) 23
Emory (8 8 3 3) 22
William & Mary (7 9 4 3) 22
Lehigh (6 6 6 4) 22
Minnesota (4 5 8 5)
Indiana (4 6 7 5) 22
Chicago (8 10 1 2) 21
UC Santa Barbara (5 6 5 5) 21
Maryland (5 5 7 4) 21
Carnegie Mellon (9 8 2 1) 20
Brandeis (8 8 2 2) 20
UC San Diego (6 7 4 3) 20


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.