<p>So the Top 11 (not regarding including ties or changing rank) are the same as last year.</p>
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RML is referring to foreigners who are studying in America. Judging from your views you’re an American and therefore can choose to attend “the more intelligent if-I-haven’t-heard-of-it-maybe-I-might-learn-something-new” schools. That’s not the case for foreigners if they want to get a job when they get back to their countries.</p>
<p>By the way, why would less well-known schools be “more intelligent”? Does being well-known signify lack of intelligence?</p>
<p>Morse Code</p>
<p>Ensuring the College Rankings Data Are Correct
August 12, 2010 09:00 AM ET | Robert Morse</p>
<p>Link: [Ensuring</a> the College Rankings Data Are Correct - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/08/12/ensuring-the-college-rankings-data-are-correct.html]Ensuring”>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2010/08/12/ensuring-the-college-rankings-data-are-correct.html)</p>
<p>^^^RIght, which says nothing about A) Checking to see if the people filling out the PA forms tanked it or even know anything about most of the other schools other than reputation or the quality of their football team; and B) what stats they chose to use and the amount of the weightings (both of which change from year to year, hence demonstrating some degree of arbitrariness), and the overall BS nature of the term “Best”.</p>
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Right…Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale, Cal, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Cornell, Penn, etc. are really known for their football teams…whooops!</p>
<p>Tulane isn’t known for their football team. What is their PA?</p>
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Way to recognize sarcasm, UCB and rjk. Besides, that was an “or”, not a singular statement and not an “and”. But I was still being sarcastic.</p>
<p>Besides rjk, Tulane is known for its football team. It is just that it is known for being a bad football team. Kind of like the Cubs in baseball, except Tulane was good much more recently than the Cubs.</p>
<p>The most experienced College President in America
(E. Gordon Gee of The Ohio State University)</p>
<p>His view on the USNWR’s annual college ranking,
[YouTube</a> - U.S. News college rankings](<a href=“U.S. News college rankings - YouTube”>U.S. News college rankings - YouTube)</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
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<p>First Heismann Trophy :P. Monsters of the Midway, baby.</p>
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He’s an academic…and academics have been saying what he’s said for years.</p>
<p>“USNWR is defunct”. Pretty much. It along with Time magazine have become rags. The only true news magazine is the Economist.</p>
<p>Rny2, touche… ;)</p>
<p>anyone who is President of anything that starts with “THE” just can’t be taken seriously (except by alums).</p>
<p>^President of
THE United States…cannot be taken seriously. Obama is a joke :[</p>
<p>E. Gorgon Gee…:)</p>
<p>The USNWR…is a rag…an entertaining rag.</p>
<p>It’s the worst system in the world–except for all the others.</p>
<p>No, it’s pretty much a tie for last, since there is no such thing as a “best college”.</p>
<p>IT DOES NOT MATTER WHETHER THE RANKINGS ARE ACCURATE AND/OR BASED ON OBJECTIVE FACT.</p>
<p>People, as in employers, still respect them. So yes, they DO matter.</p>
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<p>Get your information right, or don’t talk at all.</p>
<p>Do you really believe that employers do not care about where you went for undergrad?</p>
<p>**Yeah, to an extent, I guess rankings don’t really matter. Even if WashU is ranked higher than Brown, people will still think Brown is more elite. CCers and probably some high school kids put it along with the “Rice, Emory, Vandy, and JHU” 3rd class group or w/e :rolleyes:
Apparently Penn, ranked 4 in 2010, was called the “doormat of Ivies” according to some user here if I recall.
And don’t even get me started on Duke and Cornell.</p>
<p>Berkeley’s #21 rank doesn’t stop Berkeley CC posters from putting its programs up with Harvard and Stanford.
Same with UMichigan.</p>
<p>So what’s really the point of USNews Rankings? You really going to change the CC pecking order of universities in your heads?**</p>
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<p>It depends where you are. Honestly in D.C. the kids from Catholic and American even have a huge advantage, because they all have like 8 internships and there are tons of alums working here. Generally, you will have better contacts/connections/networking if you go to a better school. However, geography should not be discounted.</p>
<p>However, a good school also gets your foot in the door. It gives some seat-warming HR rep a built-in excuse when someone doesn’t pan out “oh, well they went to [insert prestigious school]” and they can go back to saving with their 401k and redirecting questions to other people.</p>